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The Aviary is fun but I could get lost in Phipps (literally, I get lost in there, the place is a maze). So nice in the winter when it's warm and steamy inside.

Oh no, not another live webcam, I got so addicted to the bear. That's a big bird.

That was cool. Wonder if anyone on this board is related to any of those people?

They sell light boxes on eBay. For me, I have been craving grapefruit, eating 2 a day. Those little suckers sure are expensive though. I got a seed catalog in the mail yesterday, yay!

I don't know of any of the big ornamental grasses that spread by runners. The clumps just keep getting bigger depending on how happy they are. Sometimes I think it is better to not make them too happy as when it comes time to divide them it takes a strong man with an ax and a sturdy shovel. Mine fall aver in the fall if they are not divided periodically. They should all be cut back or burned back in the spring. Burning them is a sight to see!

They do seed themselves but if you have more than one kind of grass you will get all sorts of mongrels. They just looooooove growing at the edge of cement where you can't get all of the roots out.

Personally, I've never seen blue fescue spread by runner. I did have it seed all over the place once.

My mom nearly, and I mean very nearly, burned our house down burning pampas grass We just cut ours with electric hedge trimmers - my husband likes to do it actually, he thinks it's ugly and seems to enjoy "killing it" but of course it comes back every year.

 

I don't mind snakes, they have their place in the world, but I would HATE! to bite into a protein filled fried flower!

 

I'm going to pick my first red tomato for lunch. The blight has not touched mine. I grew my own seeds from german seeds that I keep every year. We have had lots of lettuce from the garden and in planters on my deck, and fresh herbs, onions,  snap peas, and loveage,  our beans are almost ready. Zuchs, cukes, mellons are coming along too.

I love fresh veggies!

That's what I'm eating right now, a big pink-red tomato and cherries and smokehouse almonds - yum - of course it is someone else's home grown goodies because my garden was a massive fail. We were in Butler and stopped at a farmer's market and they had the best (and cheapest) stuff - we got a bottle of cherry-apple cider and it is the best stuff I ever tasted, but we only got a little bottle and it's gone and I don't live near Butler

I have been trying to learn more about ornamental grasses...my understanding is that some of them grow in neat clumps and need to be split like pampas (though I have never split my pampas grass ) and others spread by root and the new shoots need to be pulled up if unwanted (like my blue festuca). Correct?

Semi-tame? The last time my husband was there a deer stuck his head in the window of his car...a duck sat next to him on his tools..not so sure about the "semi"

You're in TL, right? I think we will plant nothing but ornamental grasses. I like them and I know the deer won't eat them.

I've never had any luck with hostas even here - slugs. I've salted them, beered them, poisoned them..nothing works.

After all of my seedlings died I planted tomato seeds from the freebies forum (pack of Campbell's tomato seeds), I thought it would be really cool to have Campbells tomato soup tomatoes. The seeds grew, too! Except they weren't tomato seeds, they were leaf lettuce seeds. I give up.

I have a pumpkin and I tried tomato seeds in a flower box one more time, I used the Campbells seeds from the free stuff forum. The rest of my failed garden sits in a dumped over pile of potting soil under my tree

Right in front of a window with the shade halfway down and a lace curtain to filter the light...and in front of a heater vent too LOL. I probably could have grown orchids

Thank you - we got the replacement pet, a gerbil, for my kid because I am a sucker - Ginger the gerbil. She's actually kind of cute

It was hot in there, you could put your hand down in and feel it. Lesson learned

I left my terrarium lid on too long and basically everything but the soybean and the tomatoes got fungus and fell over and died

I needed a laugh today...I think the porn filter got both of you

No, no more kitties for now, I looked at a few at PetSmart yesterday and they just don't compare. We picked out the gerbils

Our sweet bobtail & my sink sleeper Bo "Bocephus" 3/05/2008 - 3/13/09, killed on the blind turn in the road I was so afraid of. We only had him for four fun months. He was all heart covered in fur and is irreplaceable, we are getting a hamster

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My seeds are coming along slowly. My daughter planted one soybean and it is huge. Go figure

All of my herbs are up except for the mint and there is just no sign of it. The seeds were practically microscopic and I couldn't see what I was doing so hopefully I covered them up with soil.

Tell me how to grow grape tomatoes pleeeeeeeeeze! I love them and they will not do a thing for me. The currant ones grow fine but they are so hard to pick.

Catnip grows wild in my yard. Watch it or it will reseed itself all over the place. The plants get almost 5 feet tall. Too bad they don't get grape tomatoes on them.

Maybe the very relaxed cats that hang out in your yard eat your grape tomatoes

My lettuce, chives and catnip are up. They seem to be very happy in the space ball terrarium.

DONE! Whew. They had better produce, or else.

I had no idea where I was going to start my plants this year and my husband said "You know, I think there is a terrarium up in the attic..."  Check it out! My computer is on life support and I can't upload pictures so this is from the net but it is exactly the same. I have seen reproductions but Grandma says this one is older than me. It's so ugly it's cool

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  OH. MY I'd have expected better of you............well to each his/her own.   :K)

BA HA HA! We were over at the "new house" yesterday and I pointed to the corner of the yard and said to my husband "That's where the pot garden goes!" and he raised an eyebrow...