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mappy

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  1. just wait if it moves up the coast. surely someone will mention sandy or irene
  2. yanksfan meltdown over a CNN headline was pretty top notch r/PublicFreakOut
  3. its like the ghosts of christmas past with @A-L-E-K and @Isopycnic posting
  4. so ours too is attached to a hook off the deck. hadn't had raccoon problems in years past, but this summer and late last summer, couldn't leave the feeder out overnight otherwise it was empty in the morning, with lots of signs it was messed with.
  5. I'll have to try 3:1 next year. they've already moved on in my area, plus the raccoons are little shits and get into the nectar at night.
  6. We have a hummingbird feeder closer to the house. lots of red throats around earlier in the spring. and I always thought it was 4:1 ratio?
  7. hey! thanks for the reply! we are good, hope you and the family are well too! So, to be honest, I'm just lazy hahaha. I get so excited to grow a veggie garden every year, and it does well, but then halfway through the season i just stop checking it as often and it gets overgrown and then i'm just like "f-it". so i thought maybe for next year to grow a butterfly garden instead. we have bee balm and other flowers near the house that attract lots of nectar loving animals, but i have a really great space in the yard i can contain really well and would hate for it to not be utilized. and who doesn't love butterflies!? appreciate your list of suggestions! i'll have to remember to check back next year when the time comes to get the garden ready.
  8. so I'm thinking next year i will forego the veggie garden and just make an annual butterfly garden. i have a 10x10 space to work with. suggestions on what i can plant?
  9. i have forgotten what a storm is like. its been a 84 years...
  10. thanks for this, can you next time make it smaller and easier on the eyes.
  11. my garden is full speed ahead with giant phallic cucumbers
  12. my random sunflowers are starting to bloom too! we have two varieties growing. Cannot wait to see how big the flower in the second pic gets, its stalk is thicc
  13. I till the garden one time, just before planting. I don't even till the dead stuff at the end of the growing season, we just add the brush right on top and let it all break down on its own. One the brush is burned to ash, then we till it all in. We have clayey soil below the surface but hard compacted soil right on top, so we've found it best to till just before planting.
  14. my veggie garden space acts as a brush pile in the off season, and just before i'm getting ready to plant, we burn all the brush and till it into the soil. its been working out great, my garden grows really nicely. we also redid our entire front flower garden space, all of it tilled up and then put mulch down. haven't had any issues (except the flooding, different story). i recommend tilling whenever you can!
  15. getting split by two cells at work. pouring with T&L north at home, and south. but just some clouds and distant thunder here.
  16. lol i meant later. sorry should have been more clear.
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