Gardening - Page 9

Cinderellen · November 7th, 2002, 08:56 AM

anniejoan, you don't have a cat do you?

They're Boston Ferns so I don't think they're poisonous to them, but I guess I should check.

Oh yes, Cod, very helpful.

Running out of here looking for a cat eating venus fly trap.

Lou · November 7th, 2002, 05:44 PM

Try the nursery for solutions or powders that are used to keep animals away from plants. Seems to me that things like mothballs work. Also, the pet store will have suggestions and products, too.

Meow!

anniejoan · November 7th, 2002, 07:43 PM

Uh huh
Ohhhhhh maybe buy a catnip plant......just for the cat! Then she'll leave the other plants alone. Maybe.

Angel_Wolf · November 7th, 2002, 07:57 PM

Wonderful site Lou! Thanks for sharing it with me! Have a great day!

skyedove · January 24th, 2003, 02:36 PM

Just a suggestion, but keep a water bottle handy so that when the cat goes near the plant squirt it till it goes away from it. Keep it up until it eventually doesn't go near it. It worked with my cat and other places she isn't supposed to go.

sunflower · January 29th, 2003, 11:37 AM

Here's a tip for cucumbers. If you were to rake your leaves in the spring
then spread them in a pile of about one foot thick and as wide as you like.
Put your seeds in as if you were putting them in the ground.Leave them alone you don't have to water or weed them. A friend and I tried this last year and were amazed.

LiamFan! · January 29th, 2003, 09:21 PM

Well...if I hadn't gotten rid of all those leaves IN THE AUTUMN! <g>

Lilyfan · January 12th, 2004, 09:05 AM

I'm still searching this whole site to see if there are any recent posts. Such as maybe as recent as Dec. 2003 now that we are into 2004. I love to garden even though our season here in Maine is short. Like to try a couple new perennials each year. I love foxglove and wish it lasted more than 2 seasons. It makes quite a show. Thinking of getting yellow and white ones this season from a nursery in SC. Hope this site will be more active as time goes by.

LiamFan! · January 12th, 2004, 11:08 AM

Well, I can tell you people replied to your last posts, Lilyfan. I know, because I replied to them!

We don't do much gardening up north in January...LOL

amc929 · January 12th, 2004, 11:54 AM

i have only been gardening for a couple of years. mostly i plant annuals in my flowerbed, but have been adding a few perennials here and there. last year, i planted hollyhocks along my fence. they were awsome. i can't wait to see them again. and i also have a small patch of cannas (orange ones)...we'll see if i stored the tubers right.
but anyway...will keep checking this forum to see what the talk is about...here it is winter..and i'm getting all kinds of seed and gardenng catalogues in the mail...i'm excited already...

March 7th, 2004, 04:01 PM

they say April showers bring May flowers but in the South March floods bring May mudslides lol

Time to get out in start working the soil for the gardens!

brede · March 7th, 2004, 07:18 PM

Since we just moved into this house, I have some major landscaping to do. Hubby hates mowing, and I don't want to waste water on grass. I completely xeroscaped the last house and I am getting ready to do this one. By the end of summer, there won't be any grass in the front yard. I've already drawn up my plans and will make a trip to the county extension place soon so I can choose the most low maintenance I can find!

Cod · March 7th, 2004, 08:38 PM

Hey I was all about xeroscaping and visited "The Florida House" and picked up a truckload of leaflets and then .......didn't follow through with my plan. The one tip I DID use was to place layers of newspaper over planting areas to prevent weeds from coming up under the mulch.

HEY I COULD USE ALL THOSE LEAFLETS FOR THAT!

March 7th, 2004, 09:55 PM

I made a rock garden out of the pebbles that are for the bottom of fish tanks

brede · March 8th, 2004, 03:10 PM

Our old door (for people not cars) in our garage used to be a flooding problem. I dug out a 3'x3' square, lined it with newspapers and dumped a huge amount of aquarium gravel in it. We never had fish, but we did keep snakes for a while. My hubby would find them at work, put them in his pocket (a 3 foot rat snake once!), walk around the mall doing his security thing and then bring them home. The 5 foot rat snake he found and put it in a paper bag. All day long people asked him what was in the bag. He wouldn't tell them it was a snake, he just told them to take a look.

The only thing I ever minded about that was when they both just vanished. We never found or smelled them in the house, so I guess they made it outside. We used to keep our sliding glass door open all the time and it didn't have a screen.

I also used to collect old bricks and patio stones (especially the broken ones!) and made a patio out of them off the back porch. It was great and not an overwhelming task since I never found many bricks or stones at one time. It took about 5 years to build it.

Where is the "Florida House"? I've never heard of it and I have lived in FL most of my life.

November 7th, 2002, 08:56 AM	#121
Cinderellen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 498	anniejoan, you don't have a cat do you? They're Boston Ferns so I don't think they're poisonous to them, but I guess I should check. Oh yes, Cod, very helpful. Running out of here looking for a cat eating venus fly trap. __________________ Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

November 7th, 2002, 05:44 PM	#122
Lou Idealist Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,159	Try the nursery for solutions or powders that are used to keep animals away from plants. Seems to me that things like mothballs work. Also, the pet store will have suggestions and products, too. Meow! __________________ We must travel in the direction of our fear. --John Berryman

November 7th, 2002, 07:43 PM	#123
anniejoan Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 340	Uh huh Ohhhhhh maybe buy a catnip plant......just for the cat! Then she'll leave the other plants alone. Maybe. __________________ Am I a super spammer yet?

November 7th, 2002, 07:57 PM	#124
Angel_Wolf Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: USA Posts: 333	Wonderful site Lou! Thanks for sharing it with me! Have a great day! __________________ ~~ May you walk in the Shadow of the Creator!~~

January 29th, 2003, 11:37 AM	#126
sunflower member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario Posts: 226	Gardening Here's a tip for cucumbers. If you were to rake your leaves in the spring then spread them in a pile of about one foot thick and as wide as you like. Put your seeds in as if you were putting them in the ground.Leave them alone you don't have to water or weed them. A friend and I tried this last year and were amazed.

January 24th, 2003, 02:36 PM	#125
skyedove Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 16	Just a suggestion, but keep a water bottle handy so that when the cat goes near the plant squirt it till it goes away from it. Keep it up until it eventually doesn't go near it. It worked with my cat and other places she isn't supposed to go.

January 29th, 2003, 09:21 PM	#127
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	Well...if I hadn't gotten rid of all those leaves IN THE AUTUMN! <g> __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

January 12th, 2004, 09:05 AM	#128
Lilyfan Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Maine USA Posts: 6	I'm still searching this whole site to see if there are any recent posts. Such as maybe as recent as Dec. 2003 now that we are into 2004. I love to garden even though our season here in Maine is short. Like to try a couple new perennials each year. I love foxglove and wish it lasted more than 2 seasons. It makes quite a show. Thinking of getting yellow and white ones this season from a nursery in SC. Hope this site will be more active as time goes by.

January 12th, 2004, 11:08 AM	#129
LiamFan! Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 2,048	Well, I can tell you people replied to your last posts, Lilyfan. I know, because I replied to them! We don't do much gardening up north in January...LOL __________________ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II

January 12th, 2004, 11:54 AM	#130
amc929 Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 24	i like to garden, too i have only been gardening for a couple of years. mostly i plant annuals in my flowerbed, but have been adding a few perennials here and there. last year, i planted hollyhocks along my fence. they were awsome. i can't wait to see them again. and i also have a small patch of cannas (orange ones)...we'll see if i stored the tubers right. but anyway...will keep checking this forum to see what the talk is about...here it is winter..and i'm getting all kinds of seed and gardenng catalogues in the mail...i'm excited already...

March 7th, 2004, 04:01 PM	#131
MagnusPI Guest Posts: n/a	they say April showers bring May flowers but in the South March floods bring May mudslides lol Time to get out in start working the soil for the gardens!

March 7th, 2004, 07:18 PM	#132
brede my new motorcycle Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 574	Since we just moved into this house, I have some major landscaping to do. Hubby hates mowing, and I don't want to waste water on grass. I completely xeroscaped the last house and I am getting ready to do this one. By the end of summer, there won't be any grass in the front yard. I've already drawn up my plans and will make a trip to the county extension place soon so I can choose the most low maintenance I can find! __________________ I wanted to be a pirate, but I couldn't grow a beard and rum makes me giggle.

March 7th, 2004, 08:38 PM	#133
Cod Hooked on The OC! Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 1,252	Hey I was all about xeroscaping and visited "The Florida House" and picked up a truckload of leaflets and then .......didn't follow through with my plan. The one tip I DID use was to place layers of newspaper over planting areas to prevent weeds from coming up under the mulch. HEY I COULD USE ALL THOSE LEAFLETS FOR THAT!

March 7th, 2004, 09:55 PM	#134
MagnusPI Guest Posts: n/a	I made a rock garden out of the pebbles that are for the bottom of fish tanks

March 8th, 2004, 03:10 PM	#135
brede my new motorcycle Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 574	Our old door (for people not cars) in our garage used to be a flooding problem. I dug out a 3'x3' square, lined it with newspapers and dumped a huge amount of aquarium gravel in it. We never had fish, but we did keep snakes for a while. My hubby would find them at work, put them in his pocket (a 3 foot rat snake once!), walk around the mall doing his security thing and then bring them home. The 5 foot rat snake he found and put it in a paper bag. All day long people asked him what was in the bag. He wouldn't tell them it was a snake, he just told them to take a look. The only thing I ever minded about that was when they both just vanished. We never found or smelled them in the house, so I guess they made it outside. We used to keep our sliding glass door open all the time and it didn't have a screen. I also used to collect old bricks and patio stones (especially the broken ones!) and made a patio out of them off the back porch. It was great and not an overwhelming task since I never found many bricks or stones at one time. It took about 5 years to build it. Where is the "Florida House"? I've never heard of it and I have lived in FL most of my life. __________________ I wanted to be a pirate, but I couldn't grow a beard and rum makes me giggle.