Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

The ancient walking mower has started up once again(whew!),
always afraid it won't,
with a shot of carb cleaner and one kick back,
and the first tiny bit is cut to start the mowing season.

 

[Folly's place]

Anyone watch the Derby? Wow!
Beautiful day today, spent time at nurseries, bought a new magnolia for the yard. Happy Mother's day!
Mary

 

[1muttsfan]

Anyone who loves bees might consider joining No Mow May

https://beecityusa.org/no-mow-may/

 

[aart]

Anyone who loves bees might consider joining No Mow May

https://beecityusa.org/no-mow-may/

All summer for the insects....the fields more than the yards.

 

[1muttsfan]

I think it's maybe more for city folks who don't have fields, but a lot of people even in the country mow huge swaths of lawn. Probably mostly people who move there from the city. I have neighbors who mow acres right down to 2 in on a weekly basis.

 

[chickflick]

Happy Mothers Day to all the super moms. May your day be filled with love and joy.

 

[saysfaa]

We have new neighbors! At least 5 kits. I hope they stay close and keep the woodchucks, voles, squirrels, and such at least down to reasonable numbers.

they have been evicted. I saw the neighbor who owns the shed putting a hardware cloth skirt around the shed. No sign of the foxes. I hope their mother moved them. I can understand not wanting the mess the foxes leave but I still hope they moved but not far.

We are eating the first of the garden produce - dandelion salad!

 

[Sally PB]

We've had green onions (the green part of Egyptian Walking Onions) and cilantro from the garden. I saw an asparagus spear, as in ONE, has popped up. Ours are always late, it seems.

 

[1muttsfan]

I just spent way too much time and $ ordering bulbs for this fall. So many flowers, so little time.

 

[Sally PB]

For the first few years we lived here, I'd buy daffodil bulbs when they went on sale at Meijer. They have spread and filled in and we have hundreds, if not thousands out front now.

Did you know that they will make seeds and self propagate that way? We have some daffs where I never planted (or would have planted) them. I'm guessing birds ate the seeds and pooped them out in the woods...?

You won't see daffodil seeds for sale. It can take 7 (!) years for the bulb to grow big enough to flower.