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And... Go. I've got closer to 200 plants going on my spare room, planted some cold weather friendly greens a couple weeks ago, brussel sprouts and broccoli got planted today, and got several new perrenials for the flower beds including a new bed that eliminated my poor excuse for a front lawn. Also, over the course of the weekend, picked up a quarter beef including the suet, rendered the suet to tallow and canned it, spent Saturday in the shop building last minute items for sales starting next week, banged the gf into next week, went and got stuff to paint my living room and painted it this morning before going out, weeding the vining garden, mowing, spraying herbicide to designate where my beer garden is going to go later this summer, and got the perrenials, including 2 hardy hibiscus, planted along with weeding the strawberry patch and planting more to supplement what was there. Then found a concrete post hole, some bricks, and a 10 foot dog chain buried in my yard.


I'm tired now.

Just started the spring ritual of getting things back into shape last week.
Got the main giant flower bed 90% weeded and mulched with some new perennials added.
I'll start on the garden this week. That's going to suck because I didn't cover it in the fall and it is now a weed infested disaster. Fuck me.

My landscapers will do my spring cleanup, trim all bushes, fertilize, plant annuals and lay down 10 yards of mulch a week from today. And at the end of the day, I will not have a sore back and my yard will look amazing. Best money I spend every year at this time.

BigChiefin wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 10:17 pm My landscapers will do my spring cleanup, trim all bushes, fertilize, plant annuals and lay down 10 yards of mulch a week from today. And at the end of the day, I will not have a sore back and my yard will look amazing. Best money I spend every year at this time.

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Pressure washed and sealed the back wrap around deck, put out about 140 bags of mulch and marble chips for landscaping, replanted bushes and flowers...now on to the pecan tree that fell in the bottom of the pasture due to Hurricane Helene...I'll use some or that wood with my new Masterbilt smoker.

I'm sticking to my fruit trees these days. I have a nice patch of chives growing, and a big pot of spearmint for juleps, mojitos, and a minty version of caipirinhas. But vegetables in my yards are just lining up to be executed by slow drought...

A new addition to my small backyard menagerie is a couple of Brazilian grapetrees, or Jabuticaba. The fruit grows directly onto the trunk, look like grapes, and taste like lychee fruit. Sadly, it'll take a few years before I see any fruit, but I can still get them at a local Brazilian grocery near our house. They make for their own interesting take on the caipirinha, using this fruit rather than lime wedges.

Ricrude wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 12:53 pm Pressure washed and sealed the back wrap around deck, put out about 140 bags of mulch and marble chips for landscaping, replanted bushes and flowers...now on to the pecan tree that fell in the bottom of the pasture due to Hurricane Helene...I'll use some or that wood with my new Masterbilt smoker.

Send me the rest!

peterosehaircut wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 11:00 am

Ricrude wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 12:53 pm Pressure washed and sealed the back wrap around deck, put out about 140 bags of mulch and marble chips for landscaping, replanted bushes and flowers...now on to the pecan tree that fell in the bottom of the pasture due to Hurricane Helene...I'll use some or that wood with my new Masterbilt smoker.

Send me the rest!

LOL...it was 2 trees growing in a "v" that split during the high winds. The root system never really came out of the ground and they have produced leaves. Was about 40' tall with a canopy of about 80 feet between the two. Each trunk is about 32" in diameter. Should get a lot of wood from them.

Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 12:56 pm

peterosehaircut wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 11:00 am

Ricrude wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 12:53 pm Pressure washed and sealed the back wrap around deck, put out about 140 bags of mulch and marble chips for landscaping, replanted bushes and flowers...now on to the pecan tree that fell in the bottom of the pasture due to Hurricane Helene...I'll use some or that wood with my new Masterbilt smoker.

Send me the rest!

LOL...it was 2 trees growing in a "v" that split during the high winds. The root system never really came out of the ground and they have produced leaves. Was about 40' tall with a canopy of about 80 feet between the two. Each trunk is about 32" in diameter. Should get a lot of wood from them.

Instead of turning the pecan wood into smoke. With that size, you might see if you can find some furniture maker that wants to buy it.

Antknot wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 1:19 pm

Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 12:56 pm

peterosehaircut wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 11:00 am

Ricrude wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 12:53 pm Pressure washed and sealed the back wrap around deck, put out about 140 bags of mulch and marble chips for landscaping, replanted bushes and flowers...now on to the pecan tree that fell in the bottom of the pasture due to Hurricane Helene...I'll use some or that wood with my new Masterbilt smoker.

Send me the rest!

LOL...it was 2 trees growing in a "v" that split during the high winds. The root system never really came out of the ground and they have produced leaves. Was about 40' tall with a canopy of about 80 feet between the two. Each trunk is about 32" in diameter. Should get a lot of wood from them.

Instead of turning the pecan wood into smoke. With that size, you might see if you can find some furniture maker that wants to buy it.

That's also an option I was looking at.

Everything dries up here, it gets hot and water is a precious commodity.

So there was a sale on roses, I have planted 9 bushes of 8 different colors in 3 new beds that I put in in the past 2 weeks. I've also added 2 Hardy hibiscus, poppies, 3 trollius, orange creeping thyme, heucheras, pasque flowers, 2 more maltese cross, 5 lingenberry bushes, list count of the daylillies and iris, then ordered about 150 bulbs to play this fall. My back yard is going to be amazing next year.

Blast wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 1:29 am So there was a sale on roses, I have planted 9 bushes of 8 different colors in 3 new beds that I put in in the past 2 weeks. I've also added 2 Hardy hibiscus, poppies, 3 trollius, orange creeping thyme, heucheras, pasque flowers, 2 more maltese cross, 5 lingenberry bushes, list count of the daylillies and iris, then ordered about 150 bulbs to play this fall. My back yard is going to be amazing next year.

If you have rabbits around you may have a battle on your hands.

CHEEZY17 wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 1:47 am

Blast wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 1:29 am So there was a sale on roses, I have planted 9 bushes of 8 different colors in 3 new beds that I put in in the past 2 weeks. I've also added 2 Hardy hibiscus, poppies, 3 trollius, orange creeping thyme, heucheras, pasque flowers, 2 more maltese cross, 5 lingenberry bushes, list count of the daylillies and iris, then ordered about 150 bulbs to play this fall. My back yard is going to be amazing next year.

If you have rabbits around you may have a battle on your hands.

I do, and they will lose. A couple have died already. I may put out live traps.

My neighbor had to sell his house for a bigger one, but he had a huge number of banana trees. His friends took all the bigger ones, some even had stems of sweet small bananas on them. But he had a half dozen small banana corms (the root) he told me to dig up if I wanted them, and so did yesterday evening. That's my project this afternoon if the weather decides to quit pissing on our outdoor plans.

He also gave me a few lengths of sugar cane that I intend of letting grow wild behind the garage, but he took his beloved cane beds with him.

Nice! I remember chewing on sugar cane way back when I was deployed to St Kitts. They were harvesting at the time. Damn we got hyped up on that.

I, uh, bought a couple more perennial Hibiscus today. Should be the last thing this month for the garden.

I hope this all brings you joy. It sounds like a bunch of useless work to me.

B-Tender wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 1:37 am I hope this all brings you joy. It sounds like a bunch of useless work to me.

It can be. That's why rabbits can be so frustrating.
Nothing worse than cultivating a vegetable garden or flower bed and having a rabbit or 2 just decimate them.
For me at least, I don't really have many hobbies and it gets me out into the fresh air, so I enjoy it.

I specialize in Asiatic and Oriental lilies. I have them situated throughout the yard in strategic areas so even the same types will bloom at slightly different times keeping the yard in bloom for longer periods.
Asiatic:


Oriental:


I also have daylilies but those are technically not really lilies. I call them the sluts of the botanical world because they'll put out anywhere.

Iris leaf beetle. I can't do iris here due to those fuckers.

CHEEZY17 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 1:45 am It can be. That's why rabbits can be so frustrating.
Nothing worse than cultivating a vegetable garden or flower bed and having a rabbit or 2 just decimate them.

Or deer. My wife's brother in South Carolina can't have any sort of garden now matter how he's tried to fence out the deer. Somehow they find ways to get in and decimate his poor veggies. They of course leave his chickens alone, so he at least gets eggs, a minor consolation.

Deer == forest rats.

I planted a bunch of sunflowers yesterday. Does that count as gardening?

A couple of drops of dishwashing liquid in empty windex type bottle top off with water and mist on the leaves will take care of pests.

Reservoir Dog wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 5:02 pm I planted a bunch of sunflowers yesterday. Does that count as gardening?

Sunflower seeds are one of nature's "perfect" foods. Denser in plant protein than peanuts, and you can even grow fat eating too many.

If you have a sensitivity to peanuts or peanut butter, sunflowers and its butter are the idea substitutes. Easy to grow and make your own.

QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 11:42 pm

Reservoir Dog wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 5:02 pm I planted a bunch of sunflowers yesterday. Does that count as gardening?

Sunflower seeds are one of nature's "perfect" foods. Denser in plant protein than peanuts, and you can even grow fat eating too many.

If you have a sensitivity to peanuts or peanut butter, sunflowers and its butter are the idea substitutes. Easy to grow and make your own.

I don't eat them. I plant them because they're really good pollinators.

QillerDaemon wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 4:32 pm My neighbor had to sell his house for a bigger one, but he had a huge number of banana trees. His friends took all the bigger ones, some even had stems of sweet small bananas on them. But he had a half dozen small banana corms (the root) he told me to dig up if I wanted them, and so did yesterday evening. That's my project this afternoon if the weather decides to quit pissing on our outdoor plans.

He also gave me a few lengths of sugar cane that I intend of letting grow wild behind the garage, but he took his beloved cane beds with him.

i read the other day that banana trees really aren't trees. The trunks are just leaves that are tightly wrapped. In areas that harvest bananas they cut the entire tree down each year after the fruit is harvested. Then they grow back.

I have no idea if any of that is true.