Donna, how ingenious! I'll start asking friends to save mesh bags for me. Next year's garden may have some melons that don't have tiny tooth marks...
Donna, super! What do you use to cradle the cantaloupes? I usually have melon vines sprawling on the ground and the melons get damaged/eaten by...
Best news of the day! I am so happy for you Toni and for Randy, also. Get something delicious to eat, and then go home to your garden on Friday....
Jerry, you "rescued" so many day lilies, not just for yourself but for all of us on the Stew. We'll get to see them planted and blooming, and...
Waretrop said it--you are the best! Wishing you a very, very Happy Birthday!
Droopy, I'm partial to lantana also. It comes in a variety of colors--white, lavender, butter cream, gold, and variegated. It attracts butterflies...
Donna, next reunion I hear of, I'll ask them if I can dumpster dive and send you the empties. If a very, very large package arrives with a Texas...
After a Texas family reunion, a person could build a whole fleet of those airplanes :) !
Yes, ICU is also "I see you" at every hour of the day--no privacy and very little rest! Enjoy your regular room, and we'll all be very happy to...
We had 3 1/2" of blessed rain last week, and all the gardens perked up. The first things to appear were rain lilies: [img] Rain lilies ( photo /...
Dooley and DR, deer are repelled by rosemary. This information isn't of much help now, but for next year's garden a scattering of rosemary plants,...
Happy Anniversary to a lovely couple! Ian, thank you for sharing Eileen with the Stew. We love her!
I agree it's Japanese or Chinese Lantern (terminology varies from region to region). The leaves don't look like tomatillo leaves--too large.
Dragon, welcome to the friendliest, most knowledgeable, and kindest gardening forum! About that mint--it may have come in from a neighboring...
This could be a tragedy, but it also could be an opportunity! Take the broken branches, cut off any blooms/buds, make 5" to 6" sticks of the...
Our shallots have been drying in the barn, and now I'm playing with them. Shallots are also known as potato onions, or multiplying onions, and no...
A week without Toni is like a week without sunshine. We'll survive, but we won't enjoy it much. Sure hope the surgery goes well, and that Toni...
Barb, I hadn't thought of that! Very, very good advice, and a great analogy. Cheryl, Stewies are going to bring your hibiscus through this minor...
Dawn is a detergent. Get a bar of Ivory, or use Dreft flakes, but make sure that whatever you use is a real and true soap.
Mrs. B, I just let them crawl around. Okra isn't affected by much of anything. If the ants really bother you, take a good look at the stems and...
