How Does Your Garden Grow?
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^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
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There's nothing so delicious as fresh tomatoes and cucs, yum yum
Well it's so much less than dog or cat poop LOL It just can be flicked into a garbage easily. My lawn gets mowed once a week, I never noticed the weeds. The squirrels and chipmunks and the ground feeding birds must eat them I guess.
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^ I have a tree over a shady garden & they poop a lot there. It even lands on my bench! Note to self...move that bench!
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Yes well that can be a real problem having benches or cars or a purple berry bush, near a nest!
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love2travel wrote:
So glad I planted a bunch of perennials, the Garden is really starting to do it's own thing this year. Have added many hibiscus this year which were a present from my sister. They are just so gorgeous and I have pinks, orange with 3 colors, red and yellow. Tried Miracle Gro for blooms and what a dofference! My gardenia trees which I thought died are coming back, leaves everywhere. Need a different fertilizer.
One of the other beautiful things Im really enjoying are the bird feeders. They are drawing so many birds. Cardinals, Goldfinches, red headed woodpeckers, lots of house finches whose little babies are finally coming to the feeders. The Robins and Morning doves eat from the grass and then the Grackles. It's so nice to hear birds in any room in the house!
Your flower garden sounds amazing! We have two bird feeders and really enjoy seeing the birds feed from our kitchen window. They are chowing down this year. It's hard to keep them filled up with seed.
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oobu24 wrote:
^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
Enjoy your tomatoes and cucs! I'm sure you are. Home grown tomatoes are the best. I love cucs cut up and marinated in water and vinegar. Daddy did that with his every summer.
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Fan4-45years wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
Enjoy your tomatoes and cucs! I'm sure you are. Home grown tomatoes are the best. I love cucs cut up and marinated in water and vinegar. Daddy did that with his every summer.
Vinegar? Sounds good. I'll have to try that. My Mom always made them with mayo & onions.
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oobu24 wrote:
Fan4-45years wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
Enjoy your tomatoes and cucs! I'm sure you are. Home grown tomatoes are the best. I love cucs cut up and marinated in water and vinegar. Daddy did that with his every summer.
Vinegar? Sounds good. I'll have to try that. My Mom always made them with mayo & onions.
There are a lot of great Hungarian cuc and vinegar recipes on the web. Rutgers was in a predominantly Hungarian neighborhood, and all the Hungarian food I ate while at college was some of the best food ever!! Yum Yum fresh tomatoes and cucs!
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love2travel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
Fan4-45years wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
Enjoy your tomatoes and cucs! I'm sure you are. Home grown tomatoes are the best. I love cucs cut up and marinated in water and vinegar. Daddy did that with his every summer.
Vinegar? Sounds good. I'll have to try that. My Mom always made them with mayo & onions.
There are a lot of great Hungarian cuc and vinegar recipes on the web. Rutgers was in a predominantly Hungarian neighborhood, and all the Hungarian food I ate while at college was some of the best food ever!! Yum Yum fresh tomatoes and cucs!
Those Hungarian dishes sound great! I really miss the Farmer's Markets this year. Hopefully, they will be back next year.
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Fan4-45years wrote:
love2travel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
Fan4-45years wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
Enjoy your tomatoes and cucs! I'm sure you are. Home grown tomatoes are the best. I love cucs cut up and marinated in water and vinegar. Daddy did that with his every summer.
Vinegar? Sounds good. I'll have to try that. My Mom always made them with mayo & onions.
There are a lot of great Hungarian cuc and vinegar recipes on the web. Rutgers was in a predominantly Hungarian neighborhood, and all the Hungarian food I ate while at college was some of the best food ever!! Yum Yum fresh tomatoes and cucs!
Those Hungarian dishes sound great! I really miss the Farmer's Markets this year. Hopefully, they will be back next year.
What's sad are the You Tubes showing farmers plowing all sorts of food back underground, because they couldn't get it harvested or picked and then off to the market. It must have really been sad for them. So hope that we're back next year
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love2travel wrote:
Fan4-45years wrote:
love2travel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
Fan4-45years wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
^ The only problems with birds is that they poop everywhere & it seems like they poop weed seeds.
I've got tomatoes & cucs already from my vegetable garden. Very tasty!
Enjoy your tomatoes and cucs! I'm sure you are. Home grown tomatoes are the best. I love cucs cut up and marinated in water and vinegar. Daddy did that with his every summer.
Vinegar? Sounds good. I'll have to try that. My Mom always made them with mayo & onions.
There are a lot of great Hungarian cuc and vinegar recipes on the web. Rutgers was in a predominantly Hungarian neighborhood, and all the Hungarian food I ate while at college was some of the best food ever!! Yum Yum fresh tomatoes and cucs!
Those Hungarian dishes sound great! I really miss the Farmer's Markets this year. Hopefully, they will be back next year.
What's sad are the You Tubes showing farmers plowing all sorts of food back underground, because they couldn't get it harvested or picked and then off to the market. It must have really been sad for them. So hope that we're back next year
True.
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I have so many tomatoes. I think I'll run outside & give some to the grass cutters. All my friends have already gotten tired of them.
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oobu24 wrote:
I have so many tomatoes. I think I'll run outside & give some to the grass cutters. All my friends have already gotten tired of them.
The tomatoes sound yummy! Didn't do veggies this year because the faucet guy couldn't come over due to COVID! My hibiscus are doing great!!
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love2travel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
I have so many tomatoes. I think I'll run outside & give some to the grass cutters. All my friends have already gotten tired of them.
The tomatoes sound yummy! Didn't do veggies this year because the faucet guy couldn't come over due to COVID! My hibiscus are doing great!!
I tried growing tomatoes twice, two different years. Apparently, I haven't the touch. You have. Yay!
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Has anyone tried rubber mulch bits? I think the carpenter ants with wings were due to wood mulch against the house. Thinking of trying the rubber mulch and its reusable.
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Fan4-45years wrote:
love2travel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
I have so many tomatoes. I think I'll run outside & give some to the grass cutters. All my friends have already gotten tired of them.
The tomatoes sound yummy! Didn't do veggies this year because the faucet guy couldn't come over due to COVID! My hibiscus are doing great!!
I tried growing tomatoes twice, two different years. Apparently, I haven't the touch. You have. Yay!
I had a lot of cherry/grape tomatoes just reseed themselves. And I had already planted my regular tomatoes. I just let the "found" plants go. I pulled out a few because there were so many. Now I'm picking an abundance of tomatoes of all sizes!
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love2travel wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
I have so many tomatoes. I think I'll run outside & give some to the grass cutters. All my friends have already gotten tired of them.
The tomatoes sound yummy! Didn't do veggies this year because the faucet guy couldn't come over due to COVID! My hibiscus are doing great!!
I need someone to move my faucet or put in another one in a different location. You have to be a contortionist to get to mine.
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love2travel wrote:
Has anyone tried rubber mulch bits? I think the carpenter ants with wings were due to wood mulch against the house. Thinking of trying the rubber mulch and its reusable.
No, I haven't. But I also have flying ants.
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Ha ha ha to the tomatoes ....
I came home from work tired from the day feeling pounded down and slightly bummed out... so I started to do a nap / meditation type sleep outside on a lounge type of chair. It was only minutes... I woke up to my older neighbor waving her arms in trying to get my attention. She was in her garden. Usually she is there with her husband. Being a bit fuzzy from a broken nap / meditation... I interpreted it as a help waving of the arms and thought something happened like her husband fell. I went to help right away. I went over... she had a basket and said pick as many tomatoes as I wanted and other garden things such as cucumbers... I found out that her husband was sore from doing stuff around the house, but okay. He is usually who I see outside in the garden.
I picked a few and said thank you ... she said pick more. I said how about your kids and grand children when they visit. It turns out they are loaded up with them too. They also jar, freeze and all that too.
We had a good neighbor talk. I felt the work day thoughts disappear ...
I have not even eaten all the tomatoes that I picked. They are good when I do eat them.
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^ yeah, that's funny when you have too many tomatoes. I've already put 5 containers of them, par boiled & skinned, into the freezer. It's good for making chili & soup later when it cools off a bit. And the cucs are just about done. But I do have 4 foot longs sitting on my counter right now. Needless to say, I have a salad every night with all these goodies.