Hi iflorabella, welcome to GardenStew from Chelmsford, MA, USA. Jerry
This year as well as last the activity happens in the nighttime hours when most respectable squirrels would be asleep. I might layout a sand trap...
The midnight muncher(raccoon) is no stranger to our garden fare. The next planting will have a finer mesh wire. For years all crocus were O.K....
An early morning walk around the garden can tell a lot about the unseen nocturnal activities of nighttime creatures. Footprints, digging, munched...
Last year the planted crocus from the previous fall enjoyed the spring air and sunshine. Till the midnight muncher dined on about 50 of the tender...
The chicken wire is to protect the bees from woodpeckers, grackles and starlings? What about carpenter bees? Do they use the holes? Jerry
My 5 minute bee a count yielded 3 bumblebees, 4 honey bees and 1 solitary bee. The problem with an instant window of bee activity is there is no...
As I have a friend who is a homeopathic dr., I will ask about the poison ivy pills the next time I see her. I save a generous supply of plastic...
Carolyn, what an awful situation, I hope it stops soon and dries out so you can get back to some resemblance of normal. When you mentioned the...
I may trudge through the woodland haunts of poison ivy to the tree with the vine that traverses an oak tree in two places and take a picture....
While many plants start out with a reddish waxy look I see no poison ivy in the pictures you have displayed. As the crow just takes a few...
Hi Netty, might you be a tad more specific. :-) Thank you, Jerry
I have apparently grown from seed(2011seed) my first variegated daylily leaf. Perhaps one of my daylilies has a variegated plant as a grandparent....
With drought conditions on the horizon, when do people start filling rain barrels? Or is there still enough later in the season to fill barrels...
Shhhhh, we should tip-toe around today so we don't wake up Donna. No load noises. Only quiet posting. A good excuse not to mow the lawn or run the...
The stems were square and now are very dead. Jerry
Really?? I thought….hmmm let me check something…don't go away….checking. I looked at the last years GardenStew Phenology report and staying in...
The young lady looks like she's enjoying herself. Great picture. Jerry
For those of you with an eye for words you may recall a post about the area around plant roots called the Rhizosphere. If you missed it here it is...
A lot of us are familiar with black walnut trees and its interaction with the plants around it but allelopathy is not confined to just black...
