Lettuce Pray! How is Your Garden Planning Going This Year? 🌵🪴🌱☘️🌸🌻💐

[Billyd]

When I was a kid we had a cure for that goat problem. The cure was called Chip. She was a blue heeler and she could put the fear of dog into those goats.

We had a good cure for goat problems when I was a kid too. We called it dinner.

 

[NightTwister]

Rumor has it, they usually are. 😎

That's been my experience...

 

[Elizabeth35]

I wish I could say I have a green thumb, but no, not yet...but for some reason I just love gardening so much.

I am attempting about seven or eight varieties of lettuce this year, two types of spinach, swiss chard, snow peas, snap peas, kale, dill, and chives. For flowers I'll be growing zinnias, cosmos, marigolds, and quite a few new to me seeds that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Oh I also have a raspberry "bush." I got about seven raspberries off it last year, almost enough for a snack.

I grow in containers right now but my dream is to actually have multiple raised beds and greenstalks and grow anything and everything!

 

[Elizabeth35]

I wish I could say I have a green thumb, but no, not yet...but for some reason I just love gardening so much.

I am attempting about seven or eight varieties of lettuce this year, two types of spinach, swiss chard, snow peas, snap peas, kale, dill, and chives. For flowers I'll be growing zinnias, cosmos, marigolds, and quite a few new to me seeds that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Oh I also have a raspberry "bush." I got about seven raspberries off it last year, almost enough for a snack.

I grow in containers right now but my dream is to actually have multiple raised beds and greenstalks and grow anything and everything!

Minutes after posting this I went out and took a look at my pots only to see the devastation and destruction caused by the fluffy rats known more affectionately as squirrels.

Every year they make a huge mess and destroy my seeds and plants. I've tried sticking plastic cutlery in the pots (apparently this helps to keep them away), putting cayenne pepper on the soil, I've placed a large plastic owl nestled between the pots to scare them away, and nets to protect the plants. But these scavengers are ruthless in their pursuit of my garden. I'm convinced they see it as their own personal buffet.

Any tips???

Help.

 

[Genipher]

LOL!!

This post was hilarious -- and I think it gave me a literal scapegoat! 🐐🐐🐐

I've decided to blame all of my gardening failures not on my own lack of skill, but because, obviously, it was the goats.

Never mind that the closest I've come to goats are at farms and petting zoos.

Never mind that I live in an apartment.

And never mind that I live on one of the upper floors (after all, aren't goats known for climbing?!)

It was the goats, I tell you!

The goats.

Well, I usually blame the whales for everything but goats are also a good one to blame. lol

 

[Genipher]

When I was a kid we had a cure for that goat problem. The cure was called Chip. She was a blue heeler and she could put the fear of dog into those goats.

We ended up selling the goats earlier this year. Fixed that problem.

 

[Genipher]

The blooms last quite a while but once I notice them starting to wilt, I'm going to merge them with my other love of baking and candy them.

Those look so pretty!!

 

[Mem]

Any tips???

Help.

Last year, my daughter got me a bouquet of Canterbury bells for mother's day and I was amazed at how long the blossoms lasted so I picked up a pack of seeds to try and grow this year (although I don't remember exactly where I stored them for keeping). Being reminded of them, I just searched them to see how easy they will be to grow and one of reasons offered of 'why Cantebury bells are easy to grow' is that they are 'resistant to deer and rabbits' so I wonder if they have the same effect in regard to squirrels . However, in continuing to scan the their characteristics (I'm gathering a list of edible flowers that I can candy and use for dessert garnish), I learned that, while they are non-toxic to dogs, they are 'particularly harmful to cats' so that idea is now files in the discarded notions bin.

But searching 'squirrel repellant,' the engine retrieved some scents that squirrels supposedly dislike: peppermint oil, garlic, Cayenne pepper, and Irish Spring soap, and another article claims they don't like the scent of coffee either.

 

[Lynx]

Well even if you don't drink coffee yourself, coffee grounds should be easy to come by. Surely SOMEBODY nearby drinks the stuff.

 

[Karlon]

Well even if you don't drink coffee yourself, coffee grounds should be easy to come by. Surely SOMEBODY nearby drinks the stuff.

in itself, that is phunnneee!!!!!!

 

[Billyd]

Minutes after posting this I went out and took a look at my pots only to see the devastation and destruction caused by the fluffy rats known more affectionately as squirrels.

Every year they make a huge mess and destroy my seeds and plants. I've tried sticking plastic cutlery in the pots (apparently this helps to keep them away), putting cayenne pepper on the soil, I've placed a large plastic owl nestled between the pots to scare them away, and nets to protect the plants. But these scavengers are ruthless in their pursuit of my garden. I'm convinced they see it as their own personal buffet.

Any tips???

Help.

I had a problem with squirrels eating my pecans. It took me a month, but I now have all of them in the freezer. They are usually a big hit at our annual wild game dinner every fall.

 

[Godsgirl1983]

fluffy rats known more affectionately as squirrels.

 

[Elizabeth35]

Last year, my daughter got me a bouquet of Canterbury bells for mother's day and I was amazed at how long the blossoms lasted so I picked up a pack of seeds to try and grow this year (although I don't remember exactly where I stored them for keeping). Being reminded of them, I just searched them to see how easy they will be to grow and one of reasons offered of 'why Cantebury bells are easy to grow' is that they are 'resistant to deer and rabbits' so I wonder if they have the same effect in regard to squirrels . However, in continuing to scan the their characteristics (I'm gathering a list of edible flowers that I can candy and use for dessert garnish), I learned that, while they are non-toxic to dogs, they are 'particularly harmful to cats' so that idea is now files in the discarded notions bin.

But searching 'squirrel repellant,' the engine retrieved some scents that squirrels supposedly dislike: peppermint oil, garlic, Cayenne pepper, and Irish Spring soap, and another article claims they don't like the scent of coffee either.

Oh thank you so much! I have all of those items around so I'll need to scatter them by the pots. The mixture of all those ingredients would keep anyone away!

 

[Elizabeth35]

I had a problem with squirrels eating my pecans. It took me a month, but I now have all of them in the freezer. They are usually a big hit at our annual wild game dinner every fall.

Maybe I need to invest in a freezer too!

 

[Genipher]

Well even if you don't drink coffee yourself, coffee grounds should be easy to come by. Surely SOMEBODY nearby drinks the stuff.

Or ask a coffee shop for used grounds.

 

[Lynx]

I had a problem with squirrels eating my pecans. It took me a month, but I now have all of them in the freezer. They are usually a big hit at our annual wild game dinner every fall.

Wait, what?

Which are in the freezer, the pecans or the squirrels? I would eat and enjoy either, or both, or maybe squirrel stew in a pecan sauce.

 

[tyler87432f]

Last year, my daughter got me a bouquet of Canterbury bells for mother's day and I was amazed at how long the blossoms lasted so I picked up a pack of seeds to try and grow this year (although I don't remember exactly where I stored them for keeping). Being reminded of them, I just searched them to see how easy they will be to grow and one of reasons offered of 'why Cantebury bells are easy to grow' is that they are 'resistant to deer and rabbits' so I wonder if they have the same effect in regard to squirrels . However, in continuing to scan the their characteristics (I'm gathering a list of edible flowers that I can candy and use for dessert garnish), I learned that, while they are non-toxic to dogs, they are 'particularly harmful to cats' so that idea is now files in the discarded notions bin.

But searching 'squirrel repellant,' the engine retrieved some scents that squirrels supposedly dislike: peppermint oil, garlic, Cayenne pepper , and Irish Spring soap, and another article claims they don't like Royal Dream APK the scent of coffee either.

Yes i follow this

 

[Billyd]

Wait, what?

Which are in the freezer, the pecans or the squirrels? I would eat and enjoy either, or both, or maybe squirrel stew in a pecan sauce.

Both. Pecan pie is a perfect desert match to squirrel gravy on rice and collard greens.

 

[Tazzo]

Potatoes, beetroots, zucchini, podded pole beans; purple ones this year (definitely not the rose beans! Horrible! Learned from the last year.. let them grow too much and pods become wooden!),
carrots, onions, cucumbers.. Cherry tomatoes, only if I can find them already potted to a ampel.
I have tried to grow cherry tomatoes (from the seeds), they will grow, like crazy, and then produce tomatoes, but those are never sweet as they are promised to, so I don't know what went wrong..

Chives, parsley, dill, spinach, lettuce..

As for flowers, I should not be let to a summer yard section at the stores! 🫣 And even worse if there is a sale going on...

So far I only got Diascias, Calibrachoas (I always try to apt the ones I do not need to remove the flowers from). Piones, Rhodos (which I want more, I want a rhodo garden!), Hostas, Osteospermum... And a whole lot of other flowers here and there, perennials..
why on earth does english have these hard names for their plants, or do they have nicknames in english? If so they are hard to find.
We call these:
Osteospermum = Starry eyed (or just star eye as literal trans.)
Calibrachoa = Millionbell or Japanese bell


Also in the garden there are, red currant and black currant bushes, maybe there are a few goose berrybushes too. Apple trees grow by themselves, so does sea buckthorn bushes, but I am aimin' to kill few of those ones!


Today, since it wasn't so windy, onions went to the ground.
After that it was time to give time to my most plenty of plant, common chickweed! I gave it and all of its offspring a nice and warm welcome to my garden for it this year with a flame thrower


there are thousands of common chickweeds getting ready to grow.. Probably not visible in this photo.


I guess I have alway been in the garden, even if I didn't want (as a kid), but getting older, so it is nice to grow and store your own food. And flowers are beautiful around the garden!

I remember one time when I was a kid (maybe 10 years old) and I had my friend over, my brother and I had to go plant potatoes with our parents.. I was soo jealous that my friend didn't have to, she just walked around the field and played by herself.

Oh, that purple Tradescantia is a one I would buy if I would see it in a store, not that I need anymore indoor pants either.. but there is always room for one more!

 

[HopeinHim98]

My first sunflower bloom this year!! Took this photo yesterday.