Spring NE Roundup - Saturday June 28th

galinsoga is EVIL.

Allison, if I can try to finagle a way to go to this RU, I'd love to hook up so we could car pool. I'm not getting my hopes up that I'll be able to go though.

galinsoga?

"gallant soldier":
http://njaes.rutgers.edu/weeds/weed.asp?galinsoga

Amy, you are so right.....these weeds are SO evil! I'm determined not to let them get ahead of me this year, but it is not easy. I know they are out there germinating and growing as I write this.....just waiting with their little creepy round green leaves to torment me again tomorrow morning! LOL

Thanks, Harper! I'm lucky that my DH has a laptop that I didn't fry.....yet. LOL

Until last year, i didn't know there could be so many of ANYthing.

Louise:

Don't feel bad. I don't know what the average life expectancy of a laptop might be, especially one that is on about 14 - 17 hours a day, but mine absolutely died after three years.

So, it was off to the nearest Circuit City, after speaking with my computer guru at Techs on Call, and I am now sitting here trying to figure out this new laptop.

The fact that your computer fried may not have been you at all, you see.

What have you done to control them? I've tried EVERYTHING. Even Roundup didn't phase them. I think our only hope is to get every plant out before they can flower. Preen doesn't work, vinegar...no....plastic cover....no; just pulling their little green bodies apart......and putting them in a garbage bag...closed tight. Today I opened the garbage bag and they have grown a lot in it.

Apparently the seeds can germinate as the fall to the ground. i pull and pull and pull, and get as many tiny ones as i can, they are easier to get out then, but it is like a plague.

Candyce - you are very kind, but it was my fault for using my laptop on my lap......whodathunkit?! Now I'm forever to be known among family, friends and the Geek Squad as a Motherboard frier! Good luck with your laptop.....and don't use it on your lap! LOL

Amy - I'm tempted to write to Preen and all the other pre-emergent weed killers to see if they can possibly add this weed to their list. I wonder how the commercial places dealt with them.

I use mine on my lap all the time - you just need to make sure not to block the vent.

LOL, Louise. I saw something in one store or another that I was visiting this week. It looked like a little padded tilt table that you could put on your lap and then use your laptop. I wonder why putting a laptop on your lap would fry the computer?

the combination of conversations is getting odd...
^_^

Yes. We are odd, aren't we?

i think it was the inadvertent combination of Louise's pre-emergent weed killer and Debilu using hers on her lap all the time that made my head sping...

mmmmmmmppppffff!
There went my coffee again!

Candyce - Deb has the answer to the problem.....I blocked the vent. Now I have my DH's laptop on my lap, but on a tray. Duh...wouldn't you think I could figure that one out??? But no!

Amy - good thing that everyone on this forum is used to mentally shifting a lot, huh? LOL

LOL - gallant soldiers not sufficiently vented on Deb's lap!! LOL

you are more than welcome Jen.... my truck has plenty of space

HA, it was entertaining just trying to get through that last conversation thread! I think I've seen that little "cutie" in my garden, but it has so many bedfellows at this point that I wouldn't even recognize it. I need July 4th weekend just to catch up on the weeding. Ooof.

You should all know that, yes, my lap is weed free!

We are soooooo funny!

Ha ha ha NE forum definitely has the nuts!

Speaking of nuts - Carrie are you bringing girl brownies or boy brownies?

I was going to bring mocha chip ice cream* - i thought YOU were bringing brownies!

*if the crowd still is wildly in favor of mocha chip ice cream instead of, say, tofu burgers?

Wow - that sounds awesome. I'll do both girl and boy.

So, do boys have nuts?

heeheehee.

Boy brownies do.

Never heard them called that way before.

..innocently, "What do the girl brownies have..?"

The only difference is one has nuts and the other does not. I don't want to start any scandals here.... :-}

Oh, you guys are so funny! Girl and Boy brownies! LOL Do you get the feeling that there will be some laughter at the RU??? Quite scandalous, indeed, Ms. Nanegoat!

I managed to pot up 6 blanket flowers today... and potted up a few more foxgloves... going to have lots of stuff to bring up with me

I like the sound of that, Allison!

oh I am praying for good weather... such not a good prediction for next week...

They really can't tell this far ahead - it changes every day. We'll all pray with you. That should do it!

I'll pray for good weater with you Kassia. With all the people who are coming and all the plants that will be arriving, we need a few hours of good weather, at least!!

Allison ... what are blanket flowers?

Gaillardia

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/96351/

is it a rain or shine?