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Posted on 07/13/2004 9:49:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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That'd work! I know someone who always claimed she was on her way out to a ritual sacrifice when those types showed up. Usually it scared 'em off.
I can usually get rid of the JWs, but what bugs me about them is that when I was living in Milwaukee they always seemed to come by early on Saturday morning while I was still in bed--which is probably how I managed to get rid of them come to think of it, because I'd come to the door in my pajamas half-awake and cranky :)
It probably always looks better in the catalog :)
Ornamental grass sounds good. My latest plant to come up over the past few weeks is some sunflowers. I planted like 20 but only 4 seem to have survived due to the extra-long winter this year. Next year I'll try growing them in the house first until it gets warmer.
I think either the birds ate my sunflower seeds or the neighbor pulled them thinking they were weeds. I'm gonna do the same next year and start them inside.
Cool that one of the soldiers checked out the link! I'll be sure to add some money to the check I send to 300winmag for the knives for the military folks I know, so that he can provide knives for some other deserving folks!
Yeah, well, at the rate we're going, it's gonna take 3 yrs. to get everything done that we want to do. I think my snotty next door neighbor will probably die of horror at the thought of the construction stuff out there for the next year while we get the place 'blacked in'.
"I think either the birds ate my sunflower seeds"
I suspect that's what's going to eventually happen to mine, too :)
I've never planted tulips in pots. I have planted them in the ground and they came up and bloomed. But the winters aren't cold enough for them so they're more or less like annuals in NC. Guess you could always lift them and store in the fridge or something. BTW the leaves came up the second year, but no blumes.
I've never planted mums from seed. You usually see them at the garden center in the fall.
I've got some lemon grass on the patio that looks pretty good. YOu're supposed to use it in thai cooking. I haven't tried any thai cooking, but the grass sure smells good!
No the mums are our in the stores now. I usually wait until September and buy them in bloom.
My tulips did well this year. We'll see if they bloom next year. But a recent Southern Living had pots and pots of tulips. They looked vey cool in the terra cotta pots and it might allow me to have some I don't have room for elsewhere.
Oh okay. I never had much luck planting those potted mums in the yard.
The stores here already have mums for sale. Of course it is cooler here, but once you get them in the ground, they'll continue blooming all the way to the fall, you can just deadhead the spent blossoms. I love the deep red-wine color variety. I've got some pretty gold/orange ones next to my front door that come back every year. I just have to remember to cut down the old stalks from last year!
I've had a few come back, but I can't keep 'em from looking spindly. I think my best bet is prolly just to treat them as annuals and leave them in the pots.
Cool then. Maybe I'll try some out back and see if I can make that happen...
They seem to be hothouse plants that are hard to keep alive.
TOM YUM GAI - CHICKEN IN LEMON GRASS SOUP
It also repels mosquitoes.
I've never had a problem; mine come back the next year.
What?....Oh...nevermind...
OT: Indian Creek runs north/east thru OP, under 69 and I-435. They have a bike/hike trail along much of its length. You can see on the N side of 435 betwee Antioch and Metcalf.
Soup sounds good.
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