Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 14

Hello! A short thread as I get re-oriented to the big outdoor world! I've missed you. Thanks for all the help from the COBs!

Hope everyone is doing well.

Hey KT,
Glad you are back at it again and hopefully feeling good.
Saw in today's garden thread a hibiscus discussion. I have a little story about this one. When we first moved here to Wee Kreek Holler, we put a garden in off the living room patio. One of the first plants I bought for the area was a lavender hibiscus bush. It did very well and grew to be quite large, and then about 8-9 years later, it up and died. Not sure if that was its life span or it got tired of the unrelenting death star beating down on it. But before it croaked I managed to harvest some seeds after it bloomed. I have had those seeds for over 10 years now and I had tried planting them here and there and never any luck. This year I was cleaning out my seed storage and decided I would throw all the seeds I had left of the lavender hibiscus into a pot and if I got one, great, if not I wouldn't have to stare at that seed envelope any more. Lo and behold the plant Gods smiled down on me and one took. It just bloomed yesterday. I will have to transplant it out of the pot soon but I was very happy to have another one. I enjoyed it very much the first time and I am sure I will enjoy it as much this time around.
Never give up Horde, sometimes 10 year old seeds will surprise you!
WeeKreekFarmGirl

Never give up!

We have a lot of Hibiscus and their relatives among The Horde.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Strawberry Harvest at the Throckmortons

Hey Katy: I hope you're getting better.
Attached is a picture of my little 20 sq foot patch of Earliglow strawberries. I ripped out my old strawberries last year, because they were tired and played out, and I replanted with new roots. We are up to our eyeballs in strawberries right now. This bowl-full is just what my wife picked today, and we're picking on average about 30 berries a day right now. Suffice it to say, dessert every night is strawberries. Of course, these are "Junebearing" so they'll play out pretty soon.
Prayers for your continued recovery,
Buck

Thanks! The berries look great! We may need recipes later.

Ah, Nature

Big thunder storms last night. We all woke up to a rainwashed morning with leaves and flowers shedding drips onto the unwary early riser. Even Mr. Mousie looks as though he found it hard to avoid some of the droplets ...#embroidery #EmbroideryWhisperer pic.twitter.com/6Q527LJR8V
— #EmbroideryWhisperer Helen M. Stevens (@helen_m_stevens) June 14, 2025

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Posted by: K.T. at 12:52 PM

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1 Welcome back

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 14, 2025 12:54 PM (oWCdy)

2 Yayyy!,,

KT in tha house!

Gtsy!

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2025 12:55 PM (nYt+K)

3 Nice to have you back.. We have been getting a lot of raspberries and squash so far....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2025 12:56 PM (VE6XX)

4 I think the garden I have set up will work for what I want. I need to add more Whitney's potting soul as what I used is pretty crappy stuff. I also need to adjust the soil for my blueberries as I am not seeng a lot of growth. We've gotten more rain this year which helped me a lot. I will try and set up some drip irrigation too, so that watering is easier.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2025 12:57 PM (AcTAo)

5 It appears to me that there are those who think the little mousies are adorable little creatures. I am not in that camp. In fact, I proudly call myself a mouse annihilator.
I have seen you tube vids of cats who are friendly to mice, or even afraid. If I ever found myself in the unfortunate situation where I owned a kitteh like that, I would dispatch it forthwith to the guitar factory.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2025 12:59 PM (nYt+K)

6 I've noticed some houses where people plant a purple clematis that climbs the mailbox post. Looks great this time of year.
It's one of those plants that sounds dirty, but it's not.

"The other day I was looking at my neighbor's wife's clematis."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 14, 2025 01:01 PM (lIgBp)

7 Tim Waltz appointee to Governor's Board is the assasin. The Blaze.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 01:04 PM (KhjS7)

8 A purple clematis seems to be the only surviving plant here by previous owners. It really is nice and I don't do anything special for it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2025 01:05 PM (AcTAo)

9 Willowed (and apologies for posting this on the Gardening Thread):

235 Karol Markowicz tweeted out what could be the name of the assassin in Minnesota.

https://tinyurl.com/4z4rre8j

Nevertheless, it would be wise to keep the 48-hour rule in mind.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 14, 2025 01:05 PM (026f8)

10 .I've noticed some houses where people plant a purple clematis that climbs the mailbox post. Looks great this time of year.,

My neighbor does that. The downstairs window frames orange daylilies, backed up by neighbor’s mailbox clematis. My brother said that image would be a good fit for a seed catalog.

Posted by: kallisto at June 14, 2025 01:05 PM (nYt+K)

11 We have been getting a tremendous amount of rain. Rather have it spread out because I now expect weeks without rain when we need it most during peak summer.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 01:06 PM (VofaG)

12 Hi KT.
You have been an will remain in my prayers.

Gardening has been put on hold since Jan due to my stroke. We do have marigolds, from seed, getting ready to bloom though!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2025 01:08 PM (wMJID)

13 The flower beds are looking good, but vegetables are mixed. Haha

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:11 PM (w6EFb)

14 We’ve had RAIN! Pastures are happy, cows are happy, ranchers are happy.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2025 01:11 PM (LHPAg)

15 Tim Waltz appointee to Governor's Board is the assasin. The Blaze.

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Hoo boy, and here Waltz is already screaming this was a MAGA hit. Talk about a boomerang coming to smack you back in the head.

In any event, this is utterly tragic. And now the Democrat Left's violence has committed undeniable murder.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:14 PM (qBdHI)

16 I was mentioning in a thread last week that there is a beautiful rose bush behind the house where spouse and I feed the fixed and neutered cat colony. We feed the cats twice a week (Others do it the rest of the week) and everytime we have gone, there are more flowers. I don't know what kind of roses they are but they're very large and pink-not red-and the smell is lovely. I much prefer the roses with a scent to the ones which are just ornamental although those are lovely as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 01:15 PM (2GCMq)

17 Fenelon, I've been waiting to catch you here. I wanted to thank you so much for mentioning David Pawson's "Unlocking the Bible" some months back. It was the impetus I needed to undertake something I've wanted to do for a long time, and that is read the Bible from cover to cover. I just finished the entire Bible yesterday. I read Pawson's book along side it, which was very helpful. So again, thank you!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:17 PM (qBdHI)

18 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Never put any tomatoes in this year, but have potatoes and some kind of a squash volunteers growing besides herbs and cucumbers

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 01:19 PM (+qU29)

19 Hoo boy, and here Waltz is already screaming this was a MAGA hit. Talk about a boomerang coming to smack you back in the head.

In any event, this is utterly tragic. And now the Democrat Left's violence has committed undeniable murder.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:14 PM (qBdHI)

A Walz appointee commits political assassinations? Hopefully this is the end of Walz. Make him wear it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 01:19 PM (+blYj)

20 Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:17 PM (qBdHI)

Thanks, but I think that was someone else. I don't recall mentioning that book, but I'm so glad they did, that it was helpful to you and I think it's wonderful you read the entire Bible!.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 01:23 PM (2GCMq)

21 It was a mostly peaceful assassination.

Posted by: The media we used to watch at June 14, 2025 01:23 PM (lIgBp)

22 Tomatoes are getting bigger, but no ripe ones yet.

Can smell petunias when I walk out on the deck. Mmmm.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:25 PM (rdVOm)

23 Julio Rosas
@Julio_Rosas11
BREAKING: I'm told by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter.

It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz. He appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Council in 2016 by then-Gov. Mark Dayton.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:26 PM (qBdHI)

24 I have to do the yard.

Difficult when the house is still up in the air.

The trees in the backyard are amazing. I took pictures. Our backyard looks like a forest.

Posted by: Stateless.. 27% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 14, 2025 01:27 PM (jvJvP)

25 Welcome back, KT!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at June 14, 2025 01:28 PM (EaLNz)

26 Dang, there's junk blowing into the garden today.

(There's an open thread below this one.)

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:28 PM (rdVOm)

27 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 01:23 PM (2GCMq)

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Wow, I was sure it was you! Maybe you commented on someone else who recommended it. I know I saw your name. This was 8-9 months ago. So, whoever you are, thank you!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:28 PM (qBdHI)

28 Great to have you back K.T. I hope you and yours are on the mend and doing well.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at June 14, 2025 01:28 PM (8hxDK)

29 The "No Kings" flyers in the shooter's car didn't have rally locations on them. They literally just say "No Kings" with no other information. And there were a lot of them. This does not indicate the guy was going to target a No Kings rally. It indicates, strongly, that he SUPPORTS No Kings.

Posted by: Ghoulposts at June 14, 2025 01:29 PM (qUkBO)

30 The "No Kings" flyers in the shooter's car didn't have rally locations on them. They literally just say "No Kings" with no other information. And there were a lot of them. This does not indicate the guy was going to target a No Kings rally. It indicates, strongly, that he SUPPORTS No Kings.

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He was probably going to leave the flyers on the murdered people's bodies. Kinda like the psychos who leave their trademark trinkets on the bodies of the people they kill.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 14, 2025 01:30 PM (qBdHI)

31 22 Tomatoes are getting bigger, but no ripe ones yet.

Can smell petunias when I walk out on the deck. Mmmm.
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:25 PM (rdVOm)

I've had a couple of ripe cherry tomatoes, the rest all have a ways to go (SF Bay Area).

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at June 14, 2025 01:31 PM (8hxDK)

32 He has a Doctorate in Education.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 14, 2025 01:32 PM (KhjS7)

33 K.T. maybe the practice of inserting open threads below topical-only threads should be revived? "The thread below the gardening thread" or something was the name? Used to be common on weekends.

Did ace decree an end to these? He used to also use them during the week while he was ginning up new material.

Just an idea. A day like this, which is "news" saturated, certainly will make on-topic threads difficult.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2025 01:33 PM (1m82a)

34 Finally getting some decent rain.
Wifey laments that she got lazy and didn't plant some sweet potatoe yesterday....

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2025 01:33 PM (/lPRQ)

35 I'm so far behind on yardwork. Don't know if it *can* be caught up, without paying for some help. Ugh, as if...

Anyway, it was nice and cool yesterday, so got a bit done. The heat just incapacitates me, and it got to 100 a couple days this week. So much for mild "spring" weather.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:34 PM (rdVOm)

36 I probably still could get a couple of tomatoes for garden, last year was OK for growing them but garden is getting too much shade all these years for what they need.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

37 Dayton, the Democrat Governor before Walz, appointed the shooter to a state workboard position. Then Walz appointed him again to the same or a similar workboard position. Hard to believe this guy is some "right winger."

Posted by: Ghoulposts at June 14, 2025 01:35 PM (qUkBO)

38 Posted by: rhomboid

The Minor Appreciations of Civilization

IS the open "thread below the gardening thread"

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:35 PM (rdVOm)

39 We've had a crazy amount of rain this spring. It's very welcome but the vegetables are just lazing around, not stressed enough to start bearing.
I grew some Kentucky Wonder green beans up the fence behind one of the beds just to have some sort of vine, but we actually had some for dinner the other night.
The homemade "seed mats" did well with all the rain, but no blooms yet.
Planning to replace the interlocked 4 ft beds we bought when we moved here, as they have rotted out, with one big 8 footer. Good thing I've helped him with so many as I am on my own due to his broken arm.
But he's been a good teacher, so it should be fine.
Hard to explain to some what a joy it is just to putter around...

Posted by: sal at June 14, 2025 01:36 PM (f+FmA)

40 >>>This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs
Check out the preceding thread, too

* * * * *

Posted by: K.T. at 11:02 AM

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:37 PM (rdVOm)

41 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Never put any tomatoes in this year, but have potatoes and some kind of a squash volunteers growing besides herbs and cucumbers

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 01:19 PM (+qU29)

Hi Skip! My tomatoes are literally retarded and I bought a few just to get something for the table. Corn is also sucking this year. Okra, beans and peas are doing well.

We, too, have been invaded by volunteers - in our case it's cucumbers. While we were inundated by cukes last year, we certainly didn't toss them around flower beds, yet there they are. Birds, I guess.

The garden in front of the garage is full of volunteers as well. Chocolate sunflowers and zinnias galore. My brother saw a half dozen yellow finches eating the sunflower seeds this morning.

It's hot and muggy here. I have to weed and spread some straw along the rows, but I can't bring myself to put on my sun hat and get out there.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:37 PM (w6EFb)

42 I have done a great job of growing Prarie dogs...

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 14, 2025 01:39 PM (oWCdy)

43 When we bought this place, despit only being 1,25 scres, you couldn't even tell that there were backyard neighbors. My yard was clearcut but they had green belts obstructiing vision.
Since then they have clearcut everything... Guy on backside even put a 0x30 ugly as shed about ten feet from the property line. With a window overlooking all our back windows.

So, working on my own green belt. One acre lots are big if you can get a green belt going.
Wife suggests thinging out bird of paradise plants near the house and planting the 'pups' on back property line.

Not today, but soon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2025 01:40 PM (/lPRQ)

44 I'm so far behind on yardwork. Don't know if it *can* be caught up, without paying for some help. Ugh, as if...

Anyway, it was nice and cool yesterday, so got a bit done. The heat just incapacitates me, and it got to 100 a couple days this week. So much for mild "spring" weather.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:34 PM (rdVOm)

I hear there are undocumented workers to be found at Home Depot who work for peanuts and keep the economy going.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:40 PM (w6EFb)

45 I have to do the yard.

Difficult when the house is still up in the air.

Posted by: Stateless.. 27% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 14, 2025 01:27 PM (jvJvP)

I dunno. Seems to me it'd be easier to clean with the house off the ground. Quick sweep and you're done.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 01:40 PM (0eaVi)

46 Pasture grass at the edges of my yard is doing *great* but the lawn is more weeds than grass. Go figure.

Battling morning glory until my death, too. The bindweed is winning.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:42 PM (rdVOm)

47 I dunno. Seems to me it'd be easier to clean with the house off the ground. Quick sweep and you're done.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 202

That'd make cleaning the basement easier too.

Posted by: Stateless.. 27% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 14, 2025 01:42 PM (jvJvP)

48 I think all speculation about who did what should be put on hold. Until The Gateway Pundit posts anything, you can't be sure it's correct....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 01:42 PM (0eaVi)

49 Yeah, those Little Kings cream ales are terrible.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 14, 2025 01:44 PM (77Xnc)

50 I hear there are undocumented workers to be found at Home Depot who work for peanuts and keep the economy going.
Posted by: Miley
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Not around here. They live in the next state over, and just draw welfare there.

Hdepot is where I go to buy garden supplies. They have some really nice plants, too. Kinda spendy though.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:44 PM (rdVOm)

51 Aha, thanks folks. Didn't see KT's thing at the end about previous thread being the open one. I think she, and I know ace, used to post open threads with that as the title, not tucked away at the end of the post.

My failure here, an investigation has been launched, and I'm placing myself on (paid, handsomely) administrative leave for the moment.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 14, 2025 01:45 PM (1m82a)

52 Pasture grass at the edges of my yard is doing *great* but the lawn is more weeds than grass. Go figure.

Battling morning glory until my death, too. The bindweed is winning.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:42 PM (rdVOm)

We built our house in a field that had been under cultivation for many years. Now completely weeds. The lawn is the weeds that are mown.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:45 PM (w6EFb)

53 And the tree where the cardinals have built a nest is probably my favorite tree/ flower-the lilac, because of its color and smell. The nest was pretty well hidden because there were honeysuckle vines covering the tree. Gosh, is that an invasive species which covers so many trees and bushes, but it does smell so nice and it is pretty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2025 01:46 PM (2GCMq)

54
We finished the sprinkler valve repair this morning. Wiring had gone bad between the controller and the two valves. We had to install new wiring, digging a trench from the corner of the house to the valve bodies. Lots of good manual labor.

Hate doing work like that, but it saves me so much money over having an irrigation company come do it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 14, 2025 01:46 PM (MsrgL)

55 >>The lawn is the weeds that are mown.

LOL!

A neighbor once asked me, how I keep my lawn so green.

"Weeds."

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:48 PM (rdVOm)

56 Welcome back, KT!

My neighbor leaned over my back fence and asked if he could borrow a few ears of fresh corn for his family dinner; his corn didn't ripen yet. Then he remarked, "Those are sure some nice looking blackberries."

"You better not try to get my blackberries," I warned him.

"Don't worry about that," he replied. "Just lend me your ears! I come to praise your berries, not to seize them."

Posted by: Bombadil at June 14, 2025 01:50 PM (MX0bI)

57 My cousin and her husband live a few miles outside of town and plant a big garden every year. This year, they had a raccoon who was coming into their garden and eating the okra plants and going into the backyard to fish around in her koi pond. It took a couple of weeks, but they no longer have a raccoon problem. I didn't ask.

Posted by: huerfano at June 14, 2025 01:51 PM (n2swS)

58 Would like to put an outdoor TV in the flagstone patio and garden I just completed, but can't find one by a manufacturer I trust for under 3K. Anybody got recommendations?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 14, 2025 01:52 PM (ITkJX)

59 It was a cool, gray, and very wet month of May in my Tennessee Mountain home. Several tomato plants turned yellow and effectively died. The survivors look bad, but I've planted a few new ones in case the sun ever comes out. Maybe I'll have some tomatoes by the end of summer. (Or maybe not, it's currently raining, and sunshine is not in the short term forecast.)

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 14, 2025 01:52 PM (d9Cw3)

60 Not around here. They live in the next state over, and just draw welfare there.

Hdepot is where I go to buy garden supplies. They have some really nice plants, too. Kinda spendy though.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 01:44 PM (rdVOm)

Bummer. I wouldn't want to bring strangers to check out the property anyway.

I dropped $72 there yesterday on dianthus and straw bales. I have been spending money this month like a drunken sailor.

My best find on Amazon lately is the Holldoor stainless steel hose. O.M.G. My brother bought one to cross the walkway so he could hook up the long hose to water the outside beds. He's been so exasperated with crappy, unwieldy, kinking hoses that he thought this might be a thing.

And it is. Lightweight, flexible, easy to loop up when you're watering between rows. Doesn't kink. I bought a 50 footer to put on the end of the hose leading out to the veggie garden. Then I bought a 50 footer to use here in the back garden.

Then I bought a 100 footer for the front flower beds. So easy to water, then disconnect and coil it on the front porch.

Beautiful.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:53 PM (w6EFb)

61 We had a guy coming in twice a year to spray for weeds.But I still have a moss that needs to be dug out. It's a pretty nice green.

Once life is better, we have a lot of statues in the yard.

I want to send in pics...

Posted by: Stateless.. 27% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 14, 2025 01:53 PM (jvJvP)

62 Oh, and they're aren't too spendy. $31 for the 50 footer and $49 for the 100 footer.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:55 PM (w6EFb)

63 Julio Rosas works for the Blaze, so he's probably reliable:

@Julio_Rosas1

I’m told by a police source in Minnesota the suspect in the shootings of MN state lawmakers is Vance Luther Boelter.

It appears it is the same Boelter who was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz. He appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016 by then-Gov. Mark Dayton.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 14, 2025 01:57 PM (6ydKt)

64 Had a hibiscus come from the blue in my flower bed. My neighbor said "Well, there used to be one, but we pulled it up." I call my hibiscus Johnny "I'm baaaack." Left it there.

Posted by: Marybel Smiles at June 14, 2025 01:59 PM (gHpSW)

65 We cultivate moss. You can whirl it through a blender and paint it on rocks and watch it grow. The north side of the house has some areas that are always in shade. Hostas and moss are very happy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 02:00 PM (w6EFb)

66 Love the volunteer hibiscus and hibiscus success stories. I bought a Rose of Sharon for the front corner of the house, a lovely lavender. It's still a baby, only 18" or so, but it's covered in buds and seems to have settled in nicely.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 02:02 PM (w6EFb)

67 @kylenabecker

The alleged shooter who targeted former Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman in a "politically motivated" shooting is Vance Boelter.

Minnesota State Patrol has confirmed that the suspect had "No Kings" flyers in his vehicle.

The subject also left a "manifesto."

https://tinyurl.com/3k6ant4f
(post on X)

There's a pic in the Becker tweet of 'No Kings" flyers in the backseat of the shooter's car.

The manifesto is probably gonna be a doozy if we're ever allowed to read it.

This is really going to throw a wrench in the left's plans for this entire No Kings event - the media won't know how to cover it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 14, 2025 02:03 PM (6ydKt)

68 Raised a bunch of marigold seedling indoors...there is a lot of late frost risk where I live...last weekend I transplanted them into their outdoor pots. It did not go well. More than half of them collapsed and died. I guess a month and half was still not long enough to let the new plants establish themselves. A lesson learned for next year.

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 14, 2025 02:07 PM (Lhaco)

69 8 Crops You'd Be WILD Not To Plant in June!

https://youtu.be/r8Y6Gs3c4N8
(Epic Gardening - 20mins 34s)

==

Because I interrupted the peaceful serene gardening thread with crazy lefties.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 14, 2025 02:10 PM (6ydKt)

70 Daily Mail has Wokesota news.

Posted by: torabora at June 14, 2025 02:12 PM (+f07J)

71 Castle Guy-- I keep hearing that Marigolds are so easy to grow. Huh, riiiiight.

Every marigold I've ever planted here, gets chewed up to skeletonization within days. I'd dust them with Sevin, but for the neighbor's honeybee hives.

Meh. Other flowers do just fine, and without needing to be sprayed/dusted.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 02:17 PM (rdVOm)

72 I think most of not all volunteers come from compost.
I pulled a celery stalk trying to grow in the compost and planted it in the garden. Seems to be trying to grow there as well.

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 02:17 PM (+qU29)

73 71 Castle Guy-- I keep hearing that Marigolds are so easy to grow. Huh, riiiiight.

Every marigold I've ever planted here, gets chewed up to skeletonization within days. I'd dust them with Sevin, but for the neighbor's honeybee hives.

Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 02:17 PM (rdVOm)

This 'bloodline' of Marigolds has been growing on my property and parents' property for at least 35 years straight. Despite this hiccup, they are incredibly easy to grow. And after the seedlings fell down, I sprinkled some raw seeds into the pots, and some of those are starting to sprout up. The issue will be how much they bloom and seed before the fall frost gets to them...

That said, I only grow marigolds in pots, and my parents mostly kept them in big barrels. They rarely make it on the ground. At my place, the slugs tear them apart...

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 14, 2025 02:22 PM (Lhaco)

74 BREAKING! I drove by Bitch and Moan Corner here in Happy Valley. There's were perhaps a dozen activists, far more than I've previously seen, but they protesting the fate of the poor wetbacks but rather that the Jews have killed 180,000 kids. (I think, it was one of those signs in which smaller numbers were struck out replaced by larger numbers and I think they settled on 180,000.)

Now do Planned Parenthood!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 14, 2025 02:31 PM (L/fGl)

75 A lesson learned for next year.

Posted by: Castle Guy at June 14, 2025 02:07 PM (Lhaco)

Try scattering the seeds in the fall, where you want them to grow. Rake them in a bit. All of my volunteers are 10 times bigger than the ones in pots.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 02:43 PM (w6EFb)

76 BREAKING: Walz Appointee Named as Suspect in Assassination of MN Rep. Melissa Hortman

The suspect who murdered Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband has been identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter—and you won’t believe this:

Boelter was appointed by DEMOCRAT Gov. Tim Walz to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board.

That’s right. The man now wanted for a politically motivated double homicide was once hand-picked by Governor Walz himself.

Boelter was reportedly impersonating a police officer when he executed the brutal attacks—and left behind a manifesto and political hit list.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 02:43 PM (fab8c)

77 I have 2 100 footers of stainless steel. I can go from the front of the house to the back. Really good stuff!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 14, 2025 02:43 PM (AcTAo)

78 So Waltz put this guy up to shooting someone.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 02:44 PM (fab8c)

79 Wow, KT! Two consecutive posts in one day - and both of them were excellent. Welcome back, you've been sorely missed. Sending my prayers to you and Mr. KT for a speedy and full recovery (and to anyone else who needs them).

Posted by: Retired, thank God! at June 14, 2025 02:47 PM (9BIt9)

80 BREAKING: Walz Appointee Named as Suspect in Assassination of MN Rep. Melissa Hortman

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So it was a Twinkletoes trooper.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 14, 2025 02:50 PM (L/fGl)

81 Makes sense. I mean, some of Watz' best friends are school shooters.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 14, 2025 02:55 PM (L/fGl)

82 In grocery without a list. Dangerous.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2025 03:06 PM (3Q4mi)

83 Lilies, Tiger Lilies, More Lilies, Day, Lilies, Clematis, Yucca, Butterfly Bushes, Honeysuckle, Asters, Coneflowers, Fennel, Columbine, and more crap I can't name that I get dragged out into the garden to look at while she tells me again what they are as I point and say 'What's That ?" with at minimum a beer in my hand.

I enjoy that she enjoys it.

Posted by: jsg at June 14, 2025 03:10 PM (iGK7y)

84 Pet Thread is up, also from KT.

Posted by: gdgm+ at June 14, 2025 03:10 PM (FyLCZ)

85 I've a planter bog of native carnivorous plants: Saracenia, sun dews and Venus fly traps. I included a French drain in case I need to water directly with collected rain water.

I like any hobby that kills pests.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 14, 2025 03:10 PM (7leMO)

86 Hmmmm.
The Minnesota State bird is the Common Loon.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2025 03:11 PM (W/lyH)

87 66 Love the volunteer hibiscus and hibiscus success stories. I bought a Rose of Sharon for the front corner of the house, a lovely lavender. It's still a baby, only 18" or so, but it's covered in buds and seems to have settled in nicely.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 02:02 PM (w6EFb)

She has a huge one on the west side of the house. I need to trim it back a little but am afraid to injure it. It's the centerpiece on that side of the house and is basically a story tall now.

Posted by: jsg at June 14, 2025 03:13 PM (iGK7y)

88 86 Hmmmm.
The Minnesota State bird is the Common Loon.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2025 03:11 PM (W/lyH)

So weird....

Posted by: jsg at June 14, 2025 03:14 PM (iGK7y)

89 80 BREAKING: Walz Appointee Named as Suspect in Assassination of MN Rep. Melissa Hortman

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So it was a Twinkletoes trooper.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 14, 2025 02:50 PM (L/fGl)

Vance Boelter
-appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton in 2016, then reappointed by Gov. Tim Walz in 2019 as a private sector representative to the governor's workforce council, with the term expiring in 2023.
-PhD in education
-director of security patrols at Praetorian Guard Security Services, a security company based in the Twin Cities metro
-Boelter has experience with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East – including the Gaza Strip

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2025 03:21 PM (7v6oI)

90 Glad to see you back at it KT. Missed you and your insight. Hoping you stay well and have a great summer.

Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at June 14, 2025 04:13 PM (tg1xb)

91 Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2025 01:53 PM (

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If those ever cease to please you, look into getting yourself a Hose Link or two. They're nit thev cheapest, but oh my goodness, they've been a gamechanger for me! We have 4 now.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 14, 2025 04:31 PM (Vvh2V)

92 I would be shocked to hear that anyone could harm a Rose of Sharon type hibiscus with anything other than fire and backhoe.

Really just backhoe, because I've seen them grow back after being burned down in a house fire.

Which might very well have been started by the homeowner trying to get rid of the Rose of Sharon.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 14, 2025 04:40 PM (Vvh2V)

93 From Boise area: We were on vacation for a week. Hard to believe so many weeds could sprout in just one week...

Strawberries producing like mad. Lettuces 'Green Salad Bowl' are huge - I should have spaced them farther apart. Spinach bolted so I pulled them out. Broccolini and cabbage plants finally looking decent-sized. Other plants growing well. Had to cut the sage plant back, it got so large it blocked water to other herbs. I saw small green berries on the blueberry bushes.

Husband says pea rows need weeding, not just the garden beds, but he just mowed so I need to compost first. He also said we need to top potato bags up again.

Fireweed plant is blooming - so is one of the new "Penstemon cyaneus" we bought for our new stone bed - also larkspur, chamomile, Johnny Jump-Ups. Good to know I haven't missed the linden tree blooming, that scent is fabulous.

Hugs to KT!

Posted by: Pat* at June 14, 2025 05:07 PM (Frf47)

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