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Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:18 pm

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...they kept grabbing onto my hat, my shirt, my shorts and anything else I let get within a couple of inches of them.

I started working on extending the garden to include the rose bushes a couple of weeks ago but found a really large fire ant bed....put some killer on it and noticed this week that they were gone.
I will have to work on the other side of the roses, about half finished digging then will mulch it too.
If my camera was better you could see that I planted Dusty Miller in front the roses.

And the odd looking thing at the front of the picture is a turtle form my oldest daughter bought me for Mother's day last year. I have a chocolate vine that is languishing in a spot that is too shady, it will be transplanted to the pot in the turtles back and hopefully will cover the form before long.




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Gardenstew wrote on Thu May 11, 2006 8:26 pm:

Darn fire ants. May I never have the displeasure of meeting them face to face, ever...

The turtle looks... original :) I've never seen a wireframe turtle before. It would be nice if it could walk around FRED parading its wares.

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jubabe296 wrote on Thu May 11, 2006 9:14 pm:

Alan and I watched a program on tv last night about scientist trying to introduce a certain type of fly that lays it eggs by puncturing through the fire ants thorax and inserting it inside the ant and after the larva gets so big it moves into the ants head and the ant dies!! Kinda barbaric if you ask me, but hey if it gets rid of those darn little pests I'm all for it!! The trouble is they think Texas' summer weather is to harsh for these flies, I think they said they were from China.
BTW I like your cute turtle!

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contrareeone wrote on Sun May 14, 2006 12:11 am:

I have a rooster, made just like your turtle!

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