Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 28

Big as my hand

Long-time lurker - Lil ‘Ol Texas Lady – here. Hubby and I moved back home to Texas from the frozen northeast a few years ago and have been working on establishing veggie (his) and flower (mine) gardens since then. He inherited a green thumb while I, alas, can barely grow mold on a shower curtain; we tend opposite ends of the property.
Three years ago, my older sister sent me splits from daylilies hybridized nearly 100 years ago by my maternal grandmother. My grandmother, a tough little firecracker standing nearly 4’10 in heels, and HER husband, were passionate gardeners well into their dotage, so skilled and noted at hybridizing they became national judges of a slew of varieties from irises to daffodils to daylilies.
Of her creations, none were or remain as glorious as “Elsbeth”, a ruffled, butter-yellow daylily, growing as tall as 3 feet with blooms as long and wide as my hand. So prodigious are they that each bloom stalk will produce as many as 6-10 blooms over the course of their 90-day life.
And who knew, these magnificent flowers absolutely thrive in the East Texas sun and heat despite being tended by one as botanically ‘tarded as I.
Meet “Elsbeth”.

How wonderful to have a daylily hybridizer in your family, and a sister to share splits of the plants with you. This is a wonderful plant. Thanks for sharing the details of its history with us.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Catching up with some photos from MkY:

I think fruit flowers are some of the prettiest . . . just often not very large.

Strawberries also have pretty leaves

Serviceberry

Blueberry

Not fruit blossoms, but beautiful

Tom Servo:

The white spider lilies always bloom close to July 4. The other picture was a spot where I took out something and didn't want to be bare; very inexpensive, just zinnia and lantana, and it will look great all summer! Last pic our Althea, aka rose of Sharon.

Happy Fourth of July!

The Dakota fire pit is a simple but efficient design where the fire burns from the top downward, drawing a steady, laminar stream of fresh air from the air hole, achieving near complete combustion with little or no seen smoke

[📹 woodsboundoutdoors]pic.twitter.com/Lo0P1rpAIM
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 17, 2025

Have you ever tried cooking with one of these?

Ah, Nature

From Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Nepenthes are what dreams are made of. Out of All the plants l've seen in my life, nothing compares to their intricate beauty and unique ability to capture and digest living creatures.

They are the coolest!! pic.twitter.com/dzeOAgmrPH
— Flower Show (@TheFlowerShow) May 30, 2025

Fascinating video!

Puttering

The geraniums have been quite happy this year. The old one (the big red one) is about 15 years old. It has been a fun hobby. For those that may not know, I overwinter the geraniums every year in my basement.

Gardens of The Horde

I missed most of the Oregon bloom this spring but did manage to get a photo of my Hydrangea this year.
Halfhand

Gorgeous plant! Wish I had one.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

We're still a little behind, so don't give up if you haven't seen your submission yet.

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

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Posted by: K.T. at 01:23 PM

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1 Love those Spider Lilies for the Fourth of July!

Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (xekrU)

2 Could'a been a contenda!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (XMwZJ)

3 Also love the big daylily hybridized by Grandma!

Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (xekrU)

4 Sadly, my gardening skills suck.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (XMwZJ)

5 How in the world do folks keep the deer from eating any lilies or hydrangeas?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at June 28, 2025 01:31 PM (3AwA+)

6 I've decided I'm just going to hire someone to remulch all my plant beds and have them plant some flowers.

Just not into that type of work anymore.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:31 PM (VofaG)

7 Nepenthes in Land of the Lost or Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:33 PM (VofaG)

8 I love that daylily! Your grandmother didn’t live near Nacogdoches, did she? I met a woman once there who was extremely proficient at hybridizing day lilies, very well known for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:35 PM (HEGiN)

9 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Have mystery plants growing in garden, they are some kind of squash, but no idea what kind until something blooms.
Cucumbers and Anaheim peppers are started

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 01:37 PM (+qU29)

10 Beautiful yellow day lily. Some nice person or more on or than one gave me some suggestions for dealing with deer. We must have some extremely good tasting buds because the deer came into our yard overnight and they chomped off more lily buds, while the people up the road have about 50 gorgeous orange day lillies. Anyway, we finally got to the garden place and got some stuff so now have two day lillies blooming. It's better than nothing. Yay!

Thanks for your thoughts, KT, and thanks to the people who sent in the wonderful photos. I hope that you are continuing to feel recover and feel well KT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (2GCMq)

11 The lilies are beautiful. I like the spider lily.

Oh zinnias and geraniums and hydrangeas, all lovely.

KT, Cal Poly had a blooming corpse flower last week and I missed it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (gpah0)

12 KT, glad to have your back!

Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (LHPAg)

13 Posted by: Brunnhilde at June 28, 2025 01:31 PM

"Go Away" Deer and rabbit repellent or "Deer Be Gone" available at a garden center. We used the former.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 01:41 PM (2GCMq)

14 Nepenthe in Big Sur.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 01:42 PM (l13zv)

15 I’ve thought that the spider lilies look like fireworks. I looked them up once because I wondered if they were Asian; but they are native to Central America, and some were found growing wild in the Everglades. They do well in the south, don’t mind heat, and are pretty hardy overall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:44 PM (HEGiN)

16 I guess I shouldn't feel bad. The guy up the road has been an avid gardener for decades so he obviously knew to use this stuff before I asked about it here Anyway, I liked the name "Go away". It made me laugh. It's good to laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 01:44 PM (2GCMq)

17 CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM

Maybe you're lucky!

Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 01:48 PM (xekrU)

18 I have been struggling with blossom end rot in my tomatoes when the summer is dry. It is caused, I am told, by low Calcium, so I started adding in ground oyster shells and ag lime. I think I have the Calcium up to a good level now because the invasive brown snails usually have papery thin shells, and I found one yesterday with a heavy, robust shell.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 01:53 PM (D7oie)

19 So glad to see you back, KT.
I learned that there are herbicides that target grasses, and not dicots... exact reverse of most weedkillers.
I sprayed my buckwheat patch this morning, cause some grass (I believe Johnsongrass) was overtaking them. We'll see.
Also sprayed the orchard, where most herbicides can take out any fruit tree suckering (looking at you, Roundup).
If this stuff works as advertised, I have a new, very useful tool.

Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 01:55 PM (cPGH3)

20 Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 01:53 PM (D7oie

Tomatoes and escargot .

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:55 PM (VofaG)

21 From Boise area: Lows 50-64, highs 70-91 F. I flipped the contents of a compost bin into the next bin - this frees up the original bin for Husband to start de-thatching the lawn, and for me to create more compost.

Having a heck of a time with beans this year - had to replant yet again. After this, no more... I'm harvesting a few beans and peas from the few that sprouted from the original planting. We put up a fence for the pole beans.

I've thinned carrots, picked a few strawberries, cut some lavender, and moved the garlic pots out of irrigated zones so they can dry out.

Under Puttering, I scrubbed the master bathroom shower, Husband sealed the grout. We had to clean out the hall bathroom shower so we could use it instead - normally it holds our home-brewed beer. Now that the main shower is done and we can use it again, the hall shower is clear for us to do our next brew-up. Outdoors, Husband is working on organizing what we've stored in the shed.

Happy Independence Day to all! Stay ungovernable!

Posted by: Pat* at June 28, 2025 01:58 PM (X9ftd)

22 Tomatoes and escargot .
Posted by: polynikes

"You'd think in a fancy place like this, they could keep the snails off the plate!"

Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 01:58 PM (cPGH3)

23 It is getting to be the HOT days in north Texas, so not much is going to bloom for the next couple of months. The vincas in the front yard are doing quite nicely; the begonias the yard service planted in what they thought were shady areas are not doing well at all - our "northern" garden actually gets blazing sun ever since the neighbors cut down the tall pecan trees (which provided nice shade) a couple of years ago.

Right now the "volunteer" ivy is doing quite well. It pops up every year, then dies back to the ground every winter. I asked hubby to cut back the ivy that is currently trying to smother my new little rose bush. It's a miniature rose - won't get much more than 2 or 3 feet tall/wide, which is perfect for the area it is in, as it is in a "jutting" corner at the intersection of two walkways. I made sure to get a "thornless" rose for that spot!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:00 PM (SRRAx)

24 Pat*
Odd that we've had trouble with beans this year, too. Some was rabbits, but this last planting did NOT germinate.
We've never had that happen.

Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:01 PM (cPGH3)

25 Obviously a great day for lilies. The day lily in the top photo is not only lovely but it has that wonderful family history.

Those spider lilies are just cool. Yeah, they made me think of fireworks. But they would also work in an illustration from a George MacDonald fantasy story.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:01 PM (yTvNw)

26 Pat* I gave up planting pole beans this year because I started planting bush beans in the potato patch after I dig the potatoes out.
I found I really like cranberry beans for canning. Planting them that late in the season here won't give them enough time to mature and dry though.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 02:02 PM (D7oie)

27 Snark can also educate you. I just looked up what kind of snails used for escargot and found out that the common garden snail is one . Also that they are a mollusk and thus classified as seafood.

The more you know ....the more useless info taking up space in your brain.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 02:03 PM (VofaG)

28 Nepenthe was my favorite hangout on Big Sur back in the day. Food, coffee, books, and baubles all overlooking the golden hills on one side and the coastline on the other. So chill and groovy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:04 PM (kpS4V)

29 14 Nepenthe in Big Sur.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 01:42 PM (l13zv)
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HordeMind strikes again!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:06 PM (kpS4V)

30 Also that they are a mollusk and thus classified as seafood.

The more you know ....the more useless info taking up space in your brain.
Posted by: polynikes

I can honestly say I have never seen snails in the display case of any fish market I've been in. Course, this is Kansas City, so...

Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:08 PM (cPGH3)

31 Last year, hubby moved the bird bath to right outside of the window by the living room. It's nice and shady there, and the birds really like it there - especially since it is conveniently located nest to the structure where the grapevine grows. They always wash up before and after they get a nice snack....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:09 PM (SRRAx)

32 Tomatoes and peppers are going gangbusters, and the companion zinnias and coneflowers are getting boisterous. I see lots of volunteers, and since I never have the heart to pluck them, I'll have fun guessing what kind of mater is cropping up.

My pollinator garden is really dense with goodness, so where are the bees and butterflies? I see a few small bees and the odd cabbage butterfly is all.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:10 PM (kpS4V)

33 Battling a mole the last couple of days. The trap was triggered overnight. I pulled it out an no mole. Maybe his dirty little catchers mitt handed carcass is still in the ground. I'll check it later. This is war !

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2025 02:10 PM (/U5Yz)

34 I can honestly say I have never seen snails in the display case of any fish market I've been in. Course, this is Kansas City, so...
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:08 PM (cPGH3)[//i]

I would think they would keep "walking" off 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:13 PM (SRRAx)

35

Rats

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (SRRAx)

36 I must know a lot of weird stuff. I see the word nepenthe and remember seeing it used in Homer, The Faerie Queen and Poe's The Raven. But I didn't know it was an actual plant. Sigh!

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (yTvNw)

37 Yay! Missed the barrel 💕😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:15 PM (SRRAx)

38 Rats
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth,

Good recovery. I hear the Saturday barrel is the worst!
(So glad you're doing well).

Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:16 PM (cPGH3)

39 How wonderful to have a daylily hybridizer in your family

Do you want Triffids? Because this is how you get Triffids!

Posted by: Mallory Archer at June 28, 2025 02:16 PM (TbWk/)

40 As we reorganize the house, a VERY long term effort, I'm planning a small space for starting veggie seeds and to propagate some house plants. If I do it right it should only require one card table.

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:27 PM (yTvNw)

41 I must know a lot of weird stuff. I see the word nepenthe and remember seeing it used in Homer, The Faerie Queen and Poe's The Raven. But I didn't know it was an actual plant. Sigh!
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (yTvNw)
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Same here.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 02:30 PM (IBQGV)

42 36 I must know a lot of weird stuff. I see the word nepenthe and remember seeing it used in Homer, The Faerie Queen and Poe's The Raven. But I didn't know it was an actual plant. Sigh!

Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (yTvNw)

I swear Nepenthe was the name of some character in some book I read in a long ago era.

Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 02:31 PM (YkGND)

43 There are all manner of crepuscular critters out back. We have two skunks that come down to root around in my garden at dusk: your classic black and white job and a very fluffy white one with narrow black stripes on the side. Very pretty.

I opened the sliding window to shoo them away and one puffed up with raised tail ready to do battle.

No problemo, hombre, go about your business. I don't want any trouble!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:35 PM (kpS4V)

44 Dear Mr. Ace, Thanks for the Sabine H. sidebar.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 28, 2025 02:36 PM (QSrLX)

45 Finally got around to sending a sample of Ms jsg's flowers to KT.

Her Clematis and Lilies, Day Lilies seem to be the dominant ones this year.

Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 02:41 PM (ra4xZ)

46 No problemo, hombre, go about your business. I don't want any trouble!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:35 PM (kpS4V)

they are hunting bugs, slugs and mice. You might put out some peanut butter for them.
They also stop strangers from wandering through the yard at night. Skunks don't like strangers, and from accounts, saying "shoo" at them makes them irritable.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 02:44 PM (D7oie)

47 Also love the big daylily hybridized by Grandma!
Posted by: KT

I completely agree!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 02:51 PM (//7/7)

48 Someone gave me an avocado vase and I did it. I'm so proud. Everyone's mom had the ubiquitous avo seed in the kitchen set with toothpicks over a glass of water and I don't remember anyone's growing.

I found the secret is a baggie and paper towels misted and maybe in about 3 weeks they root, then put it in the cup of water. I rooted 3 and they're all growing but 2 of them are suspended by toothpicks and the vase one is about a foot tall with leaves and the cup seeds are only about 4 inches so I think they need more water in the vase.
I'm thinking about a 2 liter bottle might work but it's huge. I will find something else to grow my avo plant.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 02:52 PM (gpah0)

49 So nice to have you back, KT, and I hope you're feeling perky!

Many gorgeous and inspirational photos here, but those spider lilies are like WOW! You could make a spider-spangled flag out of those.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 02:54 PM (w6EFb)

50 Rose of Sharon always reminds me of Alyogyne huegelii, commonly known as blue hibiscus.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 02:55 PM (//7/7)

51 L'il Ol Texas Lady: "Of her creations, none were or remain as glorious as “Elsbeth”, a ruffled, butter-yellow daylily, growing as tall as 3 feet with blooms as long and wide as my hand. So prodigious are they that each bloom stalk will produce as many as 6-10 blooms over the course of their 90-day life."

I don't suppose you would consider selling one, because that thing is GORGEOUS.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 02:56 PM (w6EFb)

52 Dakota fire pit looks like a variation on a rocket stove.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 02:56 PM (//7/7)

53 Yay! Missed the barrel 💕😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

For a while now, you've been able to mess up the close tag, as long as you're only using one pair of tags in your post. Pixy/Minx auto-closes one for you. Use multiple tags, like accidentally forgetting the "/" in the close tag, and then you're in trouble.

You can tell when you got the get-out-of-barrel-free card, because your "posted by:" line won't be written in Italican.

I usually panic and post a blank comment with just the close tag, anyway. I've only been Barreled once, and it was one time too many. I can still smell it.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 02:57 PM (DgGvY)

54 I guess this is sort of a gardening question. I have a bunch of crap tree saplings coming up all over the yard. They're a little too big to pull up easily. Is there something I could use to kill the roots after lopping them off with pruners?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 02:58 PM (Sb0MN)

55 Contenders green beans began producing this past week. Everything was kind of a late start this year. I'm picking twice a week right now. The okra flowers are getting started, and the crowder peas are doing really well. Everyone is nestled in a straw bed, so weeding is kept to a minimum. Fewer row feet this year 80 ft of beans, 80 ft of okra, 60 ft of peas. Various other items.

I found some disgusting beetles eating my eggplant leaves. They kind of look like ticks. I washed them off and collected them/disposed of them. Japanese beetles on the corn and asst plants, damn them. The pests are keeping me busy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 03:03 PM (w6EFb)

56 The greenhouse is now producing lots of tomatoes, cukes and peppers. I have harvested some of the cukes and they are wonderful. I planted two varieties, or maybe three, and one of them is called Quick Snack, which makes a nice little cuke you can just munch without peeling, or pickle without cutting.

I also have harvested oregano, thyme, and mint, and have lots more coming. I dry them and put them in those little glass bottles for using later. They are much better than anything you can buy at the stores.

Outside, carrots, beans, parsley, dill, potatoes are all up and running. The new blueberry bushes are settling in and one of them appears to be blooming, so that's very good news.

Sage, lavender, bunch of flowers coming up as well. It's a short season but light all night. If I pick the right varieties, my garden does very well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 28, 2025 03:03 PM (1Gsou)

57 54 I guess this is sort of a gardening question. I have a bunch of crap tree saplings coming up all over the yard. They're a little too big to pull up easily. Is there something I could use to kill the roots after lopping them off with pruners?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28,

Herbicide painted on freshly cut may work? I'm not sure but it will kill anything green.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 03:04 PM (gpah0)

58 The hascaps are producing like mad. Never had them before. I guess some folks call them honeyberries. The raspberries are being raspberries, spreading their little asses all over the place. Strawberries are blooming like crazy, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 28, 2025 03:04 PM (1Gsou)

59 those spider lilies are like WOW! You could make a spider-spangled flag out of those.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I know there are red ones, because they're common in Japan. Are there blue ones? The pictures of "blue" ones I've seen are what I'd call purple.

Red spider lilies symbolize the afterlife in Japan; their name for them is written with the characters for "far shore flower," as in "the shore on the opposite side of the River Styx." Or "the Sanzu River," since they're Buddhist, not Greek.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 03:06 PM (DgGvY)

60 to grow my avo plant.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Will you graft it too?

Hawes or fuerte?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:07 PM (//7/7)

61 I found some disgusting beetles eating my eggplant leaves. They kind of look like ticks. I washed them off and collected them/disposed of them. Japanese beetles on the corn and asst plants, damn them. The pests are keeping me busy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 03:03 PM (w6EFb)

I got some of those flea beetles too. When they got established they also attacked the horseradish. They were turning the leaves into lace. I found Neem oil did a good job on them.
I think mine came from a plant grower at the farmers' market, I don't buy from him anymore

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 03:08 PM (D7oie)

62 spreading their little asses all over the place.

Phrasing?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 03:08 PM (CXi6n)

63 Having fresh chives in tomato soup, usually have oregano and basil fresh in salad

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 03:10 PM (+qU29)

64 use to kill the roots after lopping them off with pruners?
Posted by: Oddbob

Undiluted glyphosate. Paint it on right after cutting.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:10 PM (//7/7)

65 Undiluted glyphosate. Paint it on right after cutting.

Thanks. I have some ready to use Roundup spray. Do I take you correctly that it won't be strong enough and I should get the concentrate?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 03:15 PM (+iAFp)

66 Do I take you correctly that it won't be strong enough and I should get the concentrate?
Posted by: Oddbob

I don't know. I used the striaght stuff we had on hand on a desert native and it worked.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:21 PM (//7/7)

67 60 to grow my avo plant.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Will you graft it too?

Hawes or fuerte?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025

They were Hass avos from costco. I don't know how to graft it or if it will even bear fruit. I'm just shocked at how big it is and the top has about 10 leaves and there's new growth all the way down the stem/trunk. I will send KT a picture.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 03:26 PM (gpah0)

68 If it's recent Roundup spray, it's not glyphosate anymore. Bayer stopped selling glyphosate in the non-commercial market in 2023, so Roundup is the same blend of chemicals as everyone else, now. The lawsuits got to them.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 03:27 PM (DgGvY)

69 I'll get the smallest bottle of the concentrate that I can find. Honestly I'm not all that impressed with the ready to use stuff. It works fine on dandelions but is so-so on crabgrass.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 03:28 PM (1O23P)

70 If it's recent Roundup spray, it's not glyphosate anymore.

Oh. OK, I'll have to see what I can find.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 03:30 PM (1O23P)

71 We be having a Proud Two Be Gay Day Carnivel instead of 4th of July celerbratoins on forth of Jully..

Come outs and join us to Celerbrate Diversity.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattlebor, Vt at June 28, 2025 03:30 PM (aKoaI)

72 I'll have to see what I can find.
Posted by: Oddbob

Amazon has it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:36 PM (//7/7)

73 Come outs and join us to Celerbrate Diversity.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein

just go and drop your soap.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:37 PM (//7/7)

74 My MIL started 2 avocado plants (no idea the method) then planted them next to the house. They eventually were giant trees, taller than her house. They produced every year, sometimes so many she couldn't give them away. Of course, this was in south Florida.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at June 28, 2025 03:46 PM (bj34f)

75 Red spider lilies symbolize the afterlife in Japan; their name for them is written with the characters for "far shore flower," as in "the shore on the opposite side of the River Styx." Or "the Sanzu River," since they're Buddhist, not Greek.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 03:06 PM (DgGvY)

"Crossing the Bar" courtesy of Mama Publius:

https://tinyurl.com/3r39kvv2

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 04:00 PM (w6EFb)

76 So glad you are back in the saddle KT.❤️❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 28, 2025 05:00 PM (t/2Uw)

77 I was inspired by you to overwinter geraniums. They made it through the winter and are now loving life outdoors!

Posted by: kallisto at June 28, 2025 05:58 PM (qTg95)

78 Whoa, whoa, folks!
Regular old 2,4D is the broadleaf weedkiller that leaves grass intact. RU (glysophate) is "non-selective" meaning it kills everything.
Glysophate is generic use now, but it exactly the same as the old RU.
Don't use glyso out in the lawn!

Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 06:47 PM (cPGH3)

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