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Keeping a Messy Garden
"Vox Humana" wrote in message .. . I plunged the shovel into the ground, pushed with my boot, and applied leverage to free the azalea. The plant popped right out and when I looked down I had a large dazed mole in the shovel! I had to look twice as I was totally amazed to see that I had removed both the dead plant and a completely intact animal in a single effort. The mole looked dazed. It barely moved. My first reaction was to drop it and cut it in two with the shovel. I put it on the ground and poked it lightly with the shovel. It let out a pathetic squeal. I couldn't bring myself to kill it so I just picked it up with the shovel and tossed it a couple of feet into the wood. It laid there for a few minutes. When I checked back later it was gone. I thought that anyone could kill a mole, but only an intelligent being could lean to live with them. I've heard that high pitched mewing too. It reminds you this is another living creature. My dogs catch moles and drop them right at my feet, usually alive. I can't kill the little buggers so I take them down to the wildlife area and let them go in the tall brush where they can hide. Oh, the mole mounds you see there now...... |
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.. My dogs catch moles and drop them right at my feet, usually
alive. So do my cats, but they are just trying to teach me the art of molehunting. They think playing with ones' food is de rigeur, in catiquette. Waste not, want not, they demonstrate. One fat bud on one of the unnamed J&P minis, been there three days, stubbornly won't pop...hope it blooms before the buggies come out after it! Scopata Fuori |
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Susan H. Simko wrote:
Nope. I act like Susan. The s.o. claims the mold broke afte rme as the world couldn't take more than one without coming apart at the seams. When I was born, they threw away the mold. Eventually some of it grew back.... -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. |
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We used to live next door to what we lovingly termed "lawn nazis." After
mowing, husband and wife both would put on knee pads and crawl over their yard on hands and knees uprooting every last little weed. The wife even carried scissors! We never could figure them out. |
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"CG" wrote in message ... We used to live next door to what we lovingly termed "lawn nazis." After mowing, husband and wife both would put on knee pads and crawl over their yard on hands and knees uprooting every last little weed. The wife even carried scissors! We never could figure them out. Funny, but I have been referred to as a Lawn Nazi. I'm not sure why. I have very small lawn in the front that I do try to keep orderly. I mow once a week, run the edger and string trimmer, and water when it needs it. The back lawn has more weeds than grass. There are at least three mole hills out there right now. I see others who spend far more time on their lawns than I do, but they do stupid things that cause more harm than good. There are people who roll their lawns every springs. Then there are the people who have the lawn services that drench the turn with chemicals every few weeks. I guess that because my lawn looks better than theirs, they must assume that I spend more time and effort than they do. It is amazing how much good an inch of water does in August as opposed to 50 pounds of turf builder with Haltz in April. |
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What's to figure out? Live and let live. Since I signed on the dotted line and
agreed to the deed restrictions, I keep a relatively kept front yard. The backyard is mine to do with as I please. I wish I had a neighbor who hand pulls weeds. My neighbor dumps every sort of chemical he can get his little man complex hands on. He then had the f'n nerve to tell me I shouldn't plant oleander because his kids could be poisoned. When you figure him out, let me know. On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:05:03 -0500, "CG" wrote: We used to live next door to what we lovingly termed "lawn nazis." After mowing, husband and wife both would put on knee pads and crawl over their yard on hands and knees uprooting every last little weed. The wife even carried scissors! We never could figure them out. |
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Vox Humana wrote:
Funny, but I have been referred to as a Lawn Nazi. I'm not sure why. I have very small lawn in the front that I do try to keep orderly. I mow once a week, run the edger and string trimmer, and water when it needs it. The back lawn has more weeds than grass. There are at least three mole hills out there right now. I see others who spend far more time on their lawns than I do, but they do stupid things that cause more harm than good. There are people who roll their lawns every springs. Then there are the people who have the lawn services that drench the turn with chemicals every few weeks. I guess that because my lawn looks better than theirs, they must assume that I spend more time and effort than they do. It is amazing how much good an inch of water does in August as opposed to 50 pounds of turf builder with Haltz in April. Reminds me of the conversation I had with my neighbor last night. She was bemoaning the fact that our yard looked better than hers and she paid a service a lot of money to get hers in better shape. *laugh* That's the exact reason why I refuse to pay anyone to do anything with my yard. It doesn't take much and it certainly doesn't need the heavy amount of chemicals they put down to get it to look decent. All I do is seed, put down some fertilizer and lime and occasionally I strap on my aerating sandals and take a stroll through the yard. Last night she was putting down major amounts of weed and feed fertilizer. I told her that I won't do that because at least the weeds are green and without them I would have major bare patches. I'm trying to eliminate bare patches not create more. Thank goodness her property is downhill from mine though I do wonder what the neighbors on the other side (downhill) of her are going to think.... Like I said before, I love of beds with tons of flowers and no dirt to be seen. The mess and profusion of colours make me happy everytime I look at them. Susan s h simko at duke dot edu = real email address |
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:05:03 -0500, "CG"
wrote: We used to live next door to what we lovingly termed "lawn nazis." After mowing, husband and wife both would put on knee pads and crawl over their yard on hands and knees uprooting every last little weed. The wife even carried scissors! We never could figure them out. I think there must be a certain thrill in this sort of perfectionism that is nevertheless very hard to watch. If you think about it, there are two kinds of perfectionism--the one achieved by taking things away and another by adding. |
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Vox Humana wrote:
Funny, but I have been referred to as a Lawn Nazi. I'm not sure why... Someone put a column in our local paper last year with a test that would tell you if you were a lawn nazi. I took the test and found out that I'm an extremist (in the other direction -- I scored 5 out of the 100 that indicated your status as a lawn nazi). My lawn gets mowed 3-4 times a year, whether it needs it or not. It hasn't seen fertilizer or (non-natural) watering in 20 years. I drive and park on it. I plow snow off it in the winter, scalping large sections in the process. In the spring I throw some grass seed on the scalped sections and forget it. It's green because the weeds are green as well as the grass. My neighbor has a lawn service that comes in once or twice a week and mows the lawn. They cut it short. In the dry summer last year my long grass was green and their short manicured lawn was brown. |
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"Susan H. Simko" wrote in message ... Reminds me of the conversation I had with my neighbor last night. She was bemoaning the fact that our yard looked better than hers and she paid a service a lot of money to get hers in better shape. *laugh* That's the exact reason why I refuse to pay anyone to do anything with my yard. It doesn't take much and it certainly doesn't need the heavy amount of chemicals they put down to get it to look decent. All I do is seed, put down some fertilizer and lime and occasionally I strap on my aerating sandals and take a stroll through the yard. Last night she was putting down major amounts of weed and feed fertilizer. I told her that I won't do that because at least the weeds are green and without them I would have major bare patches. Where I live it is still pretty cool. Weeds aren't growing that well. While it might be a good idea (probably a little late) to use some pre-emergent herbicide, it is a waste of money and detrimental to the environment to apply a post-emergent herbicide now. I have explained this until I am blue to my neighbors. They insist on putting down "weed and feed" regardless of the circumstances. What's more frightening, they NEVER read the directions on any product they use. God only know if they are applying the stuff at the rate suggested by the manufacturer. I have also concluded that they shouldn't bother removing any plants from the container they were grown in because they move things all year long until the plants are dead. They prune shrubs at the wrong time and complain that they aren't getting many flowers. |
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animaux writes:
to tell me I shouldn't plant oleander because his kids could be poisoned. you should tell him to keep your kids off of your property, or monitor them while they are on it, lest they start grazing like wild animals on your plants and poison themselves... -- be safe. flip (who has several *fine* patches of Atropa Belladonna in the back yard) ^___^ Count to three. Make a wish. Close your eyes. \^.^/ Wait. Scratch that, reverse it. ==u== - apologies to Roald Dahl |
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Dwight Sipler wrote:
Vox Humana wrote: Funny, but I have been referred to as a Lawn Nazi. I'm not sure why... Someone put a column in our local paper last year with a test that would tell you if you were a lawn nazi. I took the test and found out that I'm an extremist (in the other direction -- I scored 5 out of the 100 that indicated your status as a lawn nazi). My lawn gets mowed 3-4 times a year, whether it needs it or not. It hasn't seen fertilizer or (non-natural) watering in 20 years. I drive and park on it. I plow snow off it in the winter, scalping large sections in the process. In the spring I throw some grass seed on the scalped sections and forget it. It's green because the weeds are green as well as the grass. My neighbor has a lawn service that comes in once or twice a week and mows the lawn. They cut it short. In the dry summer last year my long grass was green and their short manicured lawn was brown. You are way cool, please speak with these crazies in that thread that discusses using power tools to direct rocks at their face in order to obtain a finely edged lawn. (just spent hours and hours getting shredded mulch then raking some leaves in, on top, to hide my shame and play woodlands, then there are other extreames) |
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Vox Humana wrote:
They prune shrubs at the wrong time and complain that they aren't getting many flowers. This one always gets me. There are some folks near me with very nice forsythia hedge. They keep it cut to about 1 1/2 feet high, pruning it off and on including late in the fall. In the spring, while all their neighbors have splashes of yellow and they could have a wonderful line of color the entire width of their front yard, they get an occasional flower or three. I'm not crazy about forsythia but it does give us a nice display early in the spring. But without the week of flowers, what's the point? -- Henry |
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"Henry" wrote in message ... Vox Humana wrote: They prune shrubs at the wrong time and complain that they aren't getting many flowers. This one always gets me. There are some folks near me with very nice forsythia hedge. They keep it cut to about 1 1/2 feet high, pruning it off and on including late in the fall. In the spring, while all their neighbors have splashes of yellow and they could have a wonderful line of color the entire width of their front yard, they get an occasional flower or three. I'm not crazy about forsythia but it does give us a nice display early in the spring. But without the week of flowers, what's the point? The forsythia are about done here, but every spring when they bloom I make a mental note to get one for my mixed shrub border. Most of the year they are pretty ordinary, but one would be a nice splash of color in the early spring. On a more positive note (for me), the above mentioned neighbors got tired of their lilac that never bloomed so they decided to remove it. I offered to do the job if they gave it to me and they were happy to be rid of it without any work. It looked pretty sorry last year, but it is nearly ready to burst into bloom. When it is fully covered with flowers, I want to show it to them so they can see how good it looks without the ill timed pruning. |
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Hiya Pete honey......... I am a messy gardener. But its very neat. If that makes any sense. Cathy |
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