Your Garden and Garden Advice Thread

[Gawn Chippin]

...You may not like it...

Whether I do or not pays absolutely no relavence. She may not be the most aesthetic key pounder. But her talent does a good job superceeding any drawbacks of her's

...The female children of the above farm (who in that family sadly outnumbered all the males) all looked like this...

That appears to be a dead ringer for Urban Guerilla Gardening

 

[Macrobius]

*smiles in CAT*

 

[Gawn Chippin]

Large dogs are the absolute worst thing for a lawn. The damage they inflict is comparable to that of heavy equipment with a leaky hydraulic line.

Unlike katz, dawgs are willing to oabay

 

[Macrobius]

Now why am I suddenly getting ads for this:



The cats would totally abuse this.

'I'm not circling the wagons... I'm just sequestering my carbon-based wealth'

 

[Gawn Chippin]

Planting the following into yoar garden will ward off goaphers, voals and any other related roadent, when natural roadent enemies such as foxes and birds of prey are not readilly available:

MSN

Voles are a common sight in German gardens, and while they look cute, they can cause a lot of trouble for gardeners. With their sharp teeth, they can crawl under flower beds and nibble at the roots of plants. That's why it's important to protect your garden from these annoying critters. Although voles love to eat onions, they hate the taste of the poisonous crown imperial. Planting these bulbs in the marigold can protect your flower beds until spring. In addition, the tall stems and colorful orange-yellow flowers make a wonderful addition to any garden. Marigolds or marigolds are also very popular. They bear colorful flowers from summer until the first frost and are known for their deterrent effect on voles. Some claim that the newer strains aren't as good at repelling voles because they're less fragrant. Therefore, you should definitely plant the older "Tagetes patula". The common dog tongue can also deter voles. However, all parts of the plant are poisonous, so you should avoid them if children are playing in your garden. The cruciferous spurge is said to help in the fight against voracious rodents. It blooms from May to July with dark purple flowers, which then turn brown-red

 

[Macrobius]

Pic of the latest take on the 'Bronze Age Garden'

Note: wifey's latest idea about how to feed hummingbirds and present bird baths... we'll see how that goes.

Left to right... Koriopsis, cat hunting blind, some Rose thing, Birb bath, assorted 'plant babies' as she calls them. We are working on a 'light tent' for the long winter here. We only buy perennials so there's that.

 

[Macrobius]

All things are fair in Love, War, and Pascha.

 

[Macrobius]

A rhododendron, a 'flowering currant Edward VII style' which I take to be American Gangnam style... moar 'plant babies' I can explain later, and George getting a bit of shade in the Adirondack chairs, ready for the Perseid meteor show coming in August.

The Rhodo-dendron reminds me of the Greek Anacreonics (drinking songs of our Aryan Race) that I learned as a child.

No shape noats, Apeirontic, but close: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.100010458.0/?sp=1

The plate in the foreground was where I fed 'Kitler' when he showed up this morning at 7am... Like Aslan, 'He's not a tame cat' and comes and goes as he pleases.

 

[Grug Arius]

Rhododendrons are toxic to cats

 

[Gawn Chippin]

These are also toxic to other animals, large and small. Whorses are particularly sensitive to these toxins. You could even kill a neighboors horse, through bribing a kid to feed it bread oar bagel

Birb bath

It'll double as a catfeeder, if not raised a few feet

 

[Macrobius]

These are also toxic to other animals, large and small. Whorses are particularly sensitive to these toxins. You could even kill a neighboors horse, through bribing a kid to feed it bread oar bagel

It'll double as a catfeeder, if not raised a few feet

Our cats are not so spry anymore and the hummingbirds and other kinds of birbs regularly taunt them and try to drive them from their territory

Nothing funnier than a hummingbird trying to convince a cat to MOVE AWAY FROM THE FLOWERING PLANT AND NO ONE HERE GETS HURT.

They very much get in their faces and threaten them. (To no avail... cats are like WTF to most things and mostly seem to ignore attempted face to face confrontations)

The cats are Hell on Bees though. They'll chase them, swat them, carry them in their mouths, whatever. *signs* I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee...



tbh, the hummingbirds only give the feeder a cursory glance before hitting up the tasty flowering snacks, which are even lower than the feeder.

 

[Gawn Chippin]

I've yet to spectate any cat confronting bees. In the above mentioned case, the katz seem to know that bumbellbees have no stingers available

What they need is a fair oppoanent:

 

[Grug Arius]

If u feed birbs wild birb seed, birbs will land underneath the feeder to get wayward seeds, if u enjoy cleaning up slaughtered birb corpses (ft. feathers)

 

[Gawn Chippin]

I ended up having to moov my girlfeind's feeder towards without the balcony's realm, after slung from the feeder seeds summoned a mouse of which eventually entered her premises. We successfully trapped it and let it go at a rural parking lot. Given that birds of prey habitually circle oaverhead, we watched the mouse freak out from being indecisive oaver in which direction it is to flee to

 

[Macrobius]

I ended up having to moov my girlfeind's feeder towards without the balcony's realm, after slung from the feeder seeds summoned a mouse of which eventually entered her premises. We successfully trapped it and let it go at a rural parking lot. Given that birds of prey habitually circle oaverhead, we watched the mouse freak out from being indecisive oaver in which direction it is to flee to

'But I don't *want* to become a flying mouse like the Strauss opera'

 

[Gawn Chippin]

The present state of our garden, updated yesterday evening. The image was taken, befoar weeding.
Dubbel-clicking on the folloawing images will enlarge them somewhat:



At the bottom of the above shoan image is the oanly zucchini plant in the garden to be seen. When they're small, determining the difference between them and other related plants is difficult. The leftmoast leaf of its is covering a potatoa plant of which appears to be ailing, most likely because of inadequate sunlighting. Severring that leaf may restoar the potatoa plant to proper life. But would reduce the perfoarmance of the zucchini plant somewhat, given that boath are subjected to a considerable amount of shade. If this wasn't the only zucchini in the garden, I would have definitely trimmed it:



It has been raining comparitively frequent, given that the past several years were droughtish. This could cause the Tomatoes to burst, if their development isn't capable of absorbing excess water. Luckilly, unusually for this region's tempratures are high enuff for enhancing groath.
The folloawing image is almost half of an entire image. The wunn that follows it can be spliced together, in oarder to restoar it to its entirety:

The Toamatoa plant shoan appears to be of the cocktail variety:​

This folloawing tomatoa appears doarment, given that it isn't yet bearing froot.
The beets are dooing well, with the exception of wunn loss of these and wunn radicchio each:

Viewing towards the shaded end:​

What appears to be the Hokkaido's vine is really making way:​

The arrow points to a plant of which she brought from a garden nursery, oariginating summwhere near Central America. I'm guessing Mexico. It suppoasedly will produce a soart of yam or sweet potatoa. I'm guessing, it groas in a moar shady habitat, in its native environment, given that its leaves droop down under direct sunlight. Its leaves then stand back up normal, during early moarnings and evenings:



The peppers seem to be dooing well. The wunn on the right appears to be burdenned by the weight of its froot.
The arrows point to plants of which need identification.
The blue and yellow arrow point to that yam plant, wunce moar:

 

[Macrobius]

Now, about stray cats in your naybourhood...

 

[Gawn Chippin]

Your neighboorhood stray may be a victim of foul play?



Dumping the rest of my photo gallery:

 

[Macrobius]

Our favourite Stray turned up again... Kitler gets a large can of cat food when he shows up.[2] He's survived two winters here I guess or at least one.[1] We would adopt him but we know he loves his freedumbs and is strong enough to hop up on the 'backyard fence housing development highway' and visit any backyard he pleases.

[1]: we first saw him in February 2022 when he was assuredly just out of kittenhood and in his first year. We didn't see him again until February 2023, when he looked very thin but hale, after the winter of 2022-2023. I don't worry about our cats catching the local birbs -- Kitler and the Sharp-Shinned Hawk has that covered. They might get a kill one day but I really doubt it.

[2]: our indoor cats, who have free use of the backyard, get along with fine and we dose him with flea meds when we see him, the better to kill off the neighbourhood parasites.

Freedom isn't free and this is what it looks like.

Group photo.



LOL George's bushy tail... he recognises an alpha male at sight.

 

[Macrobius]

So tonight's story as I told it on my 'fambly slack'... yes we all call him Kitler because we are a CRUSTAL FAMILY.

@Guerilla LingoRevisionist @Karl

> Kitler just showed up and Chez Sanddollar[1] is serving salmon tonight -- a token serving for ours. Kitler really does come to the door now if he doesn't get his side of kibble

[1]: can you tell me how to get... how to get to Sand Dollar street? We're the Sesame Street of the crust here... Cookie Monster and ALL the muppets. Even 'Prairie Dawn'.



About the 'meme photo'...

> 'please Sir, may I have some more'

> I put the rest of the 'almost gone' bag of kibble on a plate for him, but he decided after a bit he'd had enough and punted off... our kitties of course got to have a night prowl and explore the remains

Foxy and George are of course, like all cats, very territorial but at the same time, never fight with him and treat him the same way the do each other -- maybe better actually. My wife let him come into the house during the winter, on the way to the garage (I wouldn't have)... he sprayed his anal glands on the patio curtain as you would expect any FREE MALE CAT to do

Our indoor cats with their #freeusebackyard are still enjoying their night prowl as I speak... I trust our GOOD FRENS THE CROWS [2] will clean up any remains before I wake, assuming I live to see the dawn and the Good Lord Jesus does not grant me my fervent prayer of shore leave tonight.

[2]: link about CROWS needed here

If not, I'll be on watch at dawn and my trusty Foxy will wake me at 530 AM local time, as she can be relied upon to do, always, by poking a claw in my back and as much as saying, 'Sir, I hate to disturb you but there are matters that absolutely require your soverign attention... (Me to myself: ok SHIT... er I mean, incoming messages from Starfleet? FUCK. Thank you, Uhuru... 'I'm glad you are on our side' [3]) ... because like WHO WANTS TO BE A SLUGABED WHEN THERE ARE BIRBS OUT THERE. I have always allowed my cats the freedom to wake me after dawn (and been UNDERSTANDING when they wake sometimes at COCK CROW, when Our Lord was betrayed).

[3]: ... 'be careful what you wish for' is a good old proverb, wherever quoted. On to EDEN. Captain Kitler... all our hopes. TBH, we have a few good Nigras on our side too...

As you see, NIGHT COMES QUICKLY at high latitudes this time of year @J.G. Wentworth , 47.5 N here... if you are up late enough for sunset. Kitler STARTED his meal in broad daylight, but it was hardly a few minutes later when I took the 'group photo' shot.