Now whether me knees and back hold up or not remains to be seen.
Posted on 05/01/2024 6:00:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Lovely! She’ll enjoy that!
Lol, they’re hard to catch a photo of, and even harder to catch for dinner! ;)
They are very hard to find, even if you hear them. Ours are active every day and night, and this was a rare sighting. I will say it’s a little off-putting to see an owl staring at you. I know I’m too big to be a meal, but they kinda look like they’re saying, who are you? They size you up.
Whoooo cooks for you?? ;)
If these are in the ground, maybe you could dig up each strawberry plant in a “chunk” of soil w/ a few roots showing @ bottom of chunk. Even a large hand spade should work. Chop a little soil away to form a sort of cube, or “plug”, maybe 4” x 4”, x 3” tall. Fill hole with new soil. (Maybe use cheap potting soil?) Set “cube” on top. Water in moderately, once, and thereafter only if it seems to be getting too dry or you get no rain.
This is just a guess based on my digging up some strawberry plants that had invaded an area where I didn’t really want them. I had just “dumped” the dug up plants with their clumps of roots and soil beside my strawberry bed, thinking I might start a 2nd bed a little later, with survivors. Naturally I got distracted by a family matter. By the time I had time to mess with them, the dug up plants did better just sitting there on the ground in their big spadefuls of soil, than the strawberry plants in the bed.
I assume Diana may want to weigh in further, as she has much more experience. Mine might be a fluke...
I have flukes like that sometimes. More than once. Not with strawberries per se, but lots of things work that way.
If you don’t want to wait for fresh corn, two 12 oz. packages of frozen corn (microwave & cool) will work ....still very tasty.
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Corn Situation Solved! :)
Impressive!
Not ALL the youth of today are losers. ;) We only have ONE Graduation Party to go to this season - all the ‘kids’ in our lives are moving on to ‘Adulting!’
Next up? Weddings and Baby Showers. Yay! :)
Now whether me knees and back hold up or not remains to be seen.
Turns out my head was the weak spot. Got 3/4 done and my head was aching from the sun beaming down. Gonna get the rest when it gets shady there.
I was making good time too but part of that was because the most dense area of horsenettle(not horse thistle as I’ve been calling it) was first year growth from last year’s seed spread. Probably 20 or so. No thorns and roots about an inch long so I was able to pull them right out since the soil is moist enough.
Some I could tell got mowed once or twice. Tiny plants but with thorns and coming off a 1/4 inch thick root. Chased some 8 inches sideways. A few roots were headed to China and some of those broke off 10 inches down. I’d say in the end, I will have gotten rid of 80-90% and the rest will regrow. I’ll spray those individually with something containing 2,4-D. Probably Weed B-gon.
I will say that aside from importing horsenettle, feeding hay to the goats there definitely improved the soil. Brown instead of brownish yellow. If I had recognized the young horsenettle as soon as they emerged the first time and pulled it instead of mowing, it would have been easy to take care of.
Once I’m done digging horsenettle, I’m going to mow it real short and tarp it to kill off the grass/weeds. Hopefully the push mower will start.
Our stores have been having fresh corn for 50 cents an ear the last couple of weeks. In the middle of winter, I’ll pay $1/ear just to get fresh. It’ll be great when it from the farmer down the road though. That’s my favorite. Usually starts around here in July.
That one looks pretty good, but if you get a Cutco one, it will be replaced for free if you ever break it. Expensive but I love mine. Yes, it was a Mother’s Day gift several years ago. I always get a deal when I’m working with my Cutco rep.
I would love that. Do you think it would control them? They’re so overgrown where they’re planted. Invasive even.
There is a farmer’s market near us at the new place that has 3 gardens just to sell produce. I’ve bought eggs from them & can’t wait until the garden items start coming in - I’m sure they’ll have corn this summer.
Never heard of Cutco but will keep them in mind. I do like Made in USA.
Ashley would know about invasive.
Cutco makes knives, guaranteed forever, and the company’s been around for a pretty long time. Not a fly by night. Yes, made in the USA. When I learned that they had a few garden tools, I jumped at the chance. I can’t tell you how many $10-30 hand tools I’ve bought and thrown away over the years. I really like these, and because they cost a little more, I’ve made sure I didn’t lose them.
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