[Marcella]

“(sorry, I’m a bit of a newbie on these threads so I’m not familiar), or do you have space in the turf as well?”

Let’s see if I can bring you up to date about this weekly gardening thread fairly quickly. There are two weird people who post here - one is me and one is JRandomFreeper - Johnny. The rest of the posters are normal people.

I started trying to grow food plants in about March of this year. I planted some plants in the dirt garden and they were all murdered by squirrels and birds and insects in the garden dirt plus the Texas sun burned them up. I swore off garden dirt as plant murderers live there and the sun also kills them.

I have a fairly large wooden deck, so I started over and grow only in containers with potting soil mix. I have a murdering squirrel or more than one as I don’t know the individual names of the squirrels as they haven’t told me. I have a squirrel trap on the deck to try to catch him or them.

The only plants in the dirt garden are in one long planter on top of the dirt and Egyptian Walking Onions are in that planter.

Welcome to the gardening threads.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm not weird, I'm eccentric.

/johnny

[rightly_dividing]

-The rest of the posters are normal people-

I know you ain’t referring to me.

[mlizzy]

There are two weird people who post here - one is me and one is JRandomFreeper - Johnny. The rest of the posters are normal people.

Ruh-roh... Is "normal" good? :) We, too, have a sizable deck that "literally" wraps around half the house, however, the portion of the deck shown on the image faces north and the sunlight from the eastern exposure is mostly blocked by trees... The western exposure (and some southern, however, it too is blocked in part by trees) is okay, but I wonder if it's enough to succeed with vegetables. Do you have pictures to post of your deck? You are getting me pumped up to start more containers (even if only for flowers)...

P.S. We have a border collie mix that takes care of "squirrel" problems (in addition to flies). She literally lies in wait for them... (She also eats our blueberries right off the bush.) -lol-

[Ellendra]

The rest of the posters are normal people.

Hey! I resent that remark!!!

[tubebender]

How dare you call me normal!!! I spent my childhood chewing on pencils coated with lead paint. Wanna see my six green thumbs. ..