The Old Folks Home

[Sally PB]

we can't plant until Memorial Day around here

Ditto here. I'll plant some snap peas, kale, and spinach, but all the tender stuff has to wait until late May.

 

[getaclue]

Good morning everyone. The temp is already dropping. It's going down to 40 tonight. By Wed. the Easter snap will be over, and that will be the last of the cold here, until next winter.

 

[CSolis]

It's supposed to be up to 63 today, then drop down into the 30's. I can't wait for this to be over.

 

[Peep_Show]

Everyone locally was raving about how their peas were sprouting, so I planted mine figuring I was going to be behind the curve (again) in the garden. Put them in the ground and then we had a week of near-freezing temps at night in the garden. I figured all of my germlings froze. But no! It took them 3+ weeks, but I'm seeing little green sprouts.
Wonky weather... A week ago freezing and now going to be 83 on Easter Sunday. Another "What season is it?" year where we'll all be confused. Plant all the plants and see what sticks (kind of like throwing spaghetti on the wall.) Sigh....

 

[ronott1]

Dh is depressed about his tree. I'm already online looking for something to replace it. I a few weeks, Dd #1 and I will go get another Oak tree.

I hope the new tree lifts his spirits!

 

[Alaskan]

Just wait until the mimosas start blooming here. I have lots of them on my land. I saved them in groups of two or three.. Should make for nice ornamentation. Fortunately they are far enough away from the house that they won't cause any problems with pipes, septic tank etc. Plus there is one BIG magnolia tree out back I can see from the kitchen window. It has flowers the size of a dinner plate.
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True!

Magnolias do tend towards huge surface roots... and such dense shade that there is only dirt beneath them.

They are fantastic southern trees.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Old Folks.. Woke to nightmare here. BF took dogs out next thing he sees is crazy white dog with a bird in her mouth The Plymouth barred rock poor girl .. She has no feathers on her neck and no coffee first

 

[lovesfarms]

Morning Old Folks.. Woke to nightmare here. BF took dogs out next thing he sees is crazy white dog with a bird in her mouth The Plymouth barred rock poor girl .. She has no feathers on her neck and no coffee first

Sorry to hear it! At least he was able to keep it from being killed.

 

[lovesfarms]

I wish there were an easy way to repel foxes. I don't have hardware cloth around the run but I have doubled wire fence and thought the holes were to small for a fox. Before dusk the chickens created enough noise for the whole neighborhood to hear. Something was able to reach inside and plucked a bunch of feathers but the guilty party was gone. Believe it was a fox cause I've see to many. The people down the road have their chickens free ranging. I havn't seen the hawks for a whole week. I wonder if the male stays close to the female when she's nesting.

 

[CSolis]

The male will stay close but provide her food, and sit on the eggs to spell her so she can go hunt too.