Alligators survive in frozen waters by sticking their nose above the ice and
entering a state of "brumation"
You shall not pass (but it looks like a lot of people have tried; he's an
awfully fat gator).
Posted on 03/19/2022 7:58:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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You shall not pass (but it looks like a lot of people have tried; he's an
awfully fat gator).
Oh my, sorry about your fall, that sounds painful. Hope you have a quick recovery.
Thanks!
I added you to our Ping List! It’ll be fun hearing about gardening so far north. :)
If there’s still enough cool, pea-growing weather ahead for you, soak some peas overnight and pop them directly into the soil.
I start some, and I also plant some seeds at the same time in case I have some sort of pea-related disaster. ;)
No pee-related disasters lately - even with the three pups running loose, LOL!
We’ve had an opossum roaming around under the bird feeders at the end of the day. I don’t mind him doing clean-up duty; he’s pretty cute! The puppies ‘met’ him the other day. He hissed, they ran. Real tough Bear Dogs, Eh?
*SHUDDER*
I’ll take a snake over a gator, any day, but, I’d rather have NEITHER, LOL!
The thing that makes my skin crawl the worst? Grasshoppers! UGH! I know they can’t hurt me, other than to spit on me, but they are so CREEPY! What was God thinking...other than them being a food source for birds, I guess?
*SHUDDER*
So beautiful. Planted pansies, dianthus, thyme and bok choy yesterday. A few of my daffodils are sending up buds. We are having summer temperatures and the weather patterns that go with it.
I’ll still be on time with peas by direct seeding. Just won’t get a few weeks head start.
>>Are onions high in sulfites?
Sulfites also occur naturally in a number of foods such as maple syrup, pectin, salmon, dried cod, corn starch, lettuce, tomatoes, soy products, eggs, onions, garlic, chives, leeks and asparagus. Generally, sulfite sensitivity is found in people with asthma who are steroid dependent.<<
OTOH, if that were the case, those others should also cause problems to a varying degree.
There is no known test for the ondition, unlike most alergins.
I thought it was chicken wire on the inside of the field fence dog pen but it’s chain link fencing which still works. Little sloppy looking without the top rails but oh well. Don’t even need the field fence now since the chain link is the same height. Still gotta steal the t-posts though. Field fence can be rolled up and stored for some other use.
Yes welcome redpoll. We love pictures too, would love to see your setup. Are your greenhouses heated?
Praying Mantids eat grasshoppers.
You can buy praying mantis egg cases online.
That way there's not so much delay if ground temperatures are cool enough to slow down germination.
Hard neck garlic is best planted in the fall. Something about the freezing of them ...
If I now stick it in my freezer for a week or two, and then plant it, would that achieve the same effect?
You could try.
I plant my garlic in the fall and it just starts to come up before winter really hits. So it freezes after some growth begins.
I’m guessing that your garlic is starting to sprout by now, as the stuff I harvested last summer was doing. It’s certainly worth a try. I don’t know if a week is long enough. You might want to google it up. I’m sure others have had the same question because hardneck garlic doesn’t do well in the south where they don’t get freezes like the north does.
I know for some bulbs, like hyacinths and other spring flowering bulbs, they need 45 days of cold to set flowers. How much garlic might need for good clove development, I don’t know.
It certainly is worth a try cause I don’t think you’d get cloves otherwise. This year at least.
Garlic bed prep is a lot of work, but usually I do that in September. They like bone meal, too so I always put some in the soil and mix it in a little before putting the bulbs in.
Looks like “40 days below 40 degrees” is what I want.
Into the refrigerator they go.
Let me know how that works out for you.
I realize it will be probably Aug before you know.
Forty days puts planting at still before the the last frost date, here 8n NH at least, so gives you plenty of growing season.
Last Frost Date here is early May.
Some Scottish gardeners leave a wild uncultivated spot in the center of their gardens for pollinators and predators (and garden fairies) to rest from season to season undisturbed. If you have a large garden I suppose you could do that!
I am American and pretty agnostic about fairies and genus loci. If angels want to hang around my yard that would be great! They need to stop staring at their reflection in the pool and get busy and chase the sheep away!
Arbico Organics.
https://www.arbico-organics.com/
They sell beneficial insects and beneficial nematodes.
I have ordered a bunch and will see how they do.
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