Coffee Break #11 - Moms rule!

Me too, Harper!! I left my dahlia seedlings in the ground in Florida. It will be interesting to see if they come back there next winter!

More likely there than up here. Too much work, I don't grow them either.

I did grow them here until I forgot to dig them up last fall. I bought a few this spring but not nearly as many as I lost.

I gave all of mine to Michaela (Seandor) - she has more sun than I do.

I never dig mine---can't get them to live over the winter---they either dry out or rot---I've tried peat, tried waxing them with parrafin, layering with newspapers---nothing worked. Easier to buy new ones each spring.

Growing dahlias from seed or as annuals makes just as prettiful dahlias as storing tubers I think. Whatever works for you is my motto.

I appreciate everyones work for digging tubers, rhizomes (sp) and whatever up. I did it last year with EE's and that is it - No More...............

The ee's are in the same spot they were last year. Probably the last!

Anyone watching the Bachelorette?

Where is she??!

She is safe in Canada Victor. You need a phyto-sanitary certificate to date her.

Sounds like something that states your dog is clean.

Does your kid have aspirations??
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All plants to canada need the certificate--no snails allowed however. Maybe boys aren't either, suggested Cub Scout project with the snails?

My son says "that's not cool, that's disgusting"

We're all different. I think it's pretty cool!

I know my kids would never do it! They freak out at worms, the wimps.

Big worms give me the heebiejeebies too so I vote with the wimps.

I'm talking any worm, no matter how small.

Oh. Ok they aren't wimps; they're girlie girls (tee hee I'm gonna get clobbered now for not being PC).

Some are city people, some are country people, I guess.

The tomato horn worm also is up for the taking?

Now that's just plain ugly---I never want to touch them, but I get them off the tomatoes---ugh! My GD, HayHay, is a country girl, but afraid of everything! I even have to clean the old cobwebs off her playscape. And don't mention bear or coyote in her presence!

I had a tomato horn worm a few of years ago loping around the yard and didn't know what it was. I tenderly moved it into my herb bed hoping it would turn into a luvly butterfly or moth LOL.

In today's Garden History Items:
1780: Near total darkness covered most of New England about mid-day. The event called "New England's Dark Day" remains unexplained to this day.

Sorry New England to your ancestors. Methinks the Rocky Mountain ancestors might have been test driving an asteroid and cast a big shadow. I posted this item on the RM Forum and yup the DG RM members think that might be what it was.

Well, thanks a bunch! MY ancestors couldn't read or sew. We got lost in the dark. We were scared. (That is, those of us who were, in fact, wimps.)

Rotflolol!!!

Carrie the RM members have HUGE guilt. Too bad no one had invented a single engine plane to flyby with a megaphone yelling 'NO WORRIES. JUST INVENTING ASTROID TRAVEL'. Hind sight is 20/20&1/2 I'm told.

Where did the 1/2 come from?

I respect my ancestors who came to New England in wooden boats while I don't like flying for a much shorter time in a modern airplane. As j-2's younger sister told me one time, 'don't worry Mom, I'm holding up the plane'. She has enough guts to do so. Aren't you sure that the 'astroid' wasn't some one trying to get to California?

I made it up jumper2. I thought it would help sooth the upset with having messed up the NE ancestors with the 'dark day '