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  1. mappy
    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.
  2. mappy
    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.
  3. mappy
    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?
  4. mappy
    pretty sure he sold that already
  5. mappy
    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.
  6. mappy
    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?
  7. mappy
    i have forgotten what a storm is like. its been a 84 years...
  8. mappy
    thanks for this, can you next time make it smaller and easier on the eyes.
  9. mappy
    my garden is full speed ahead with giant phallic cucumbers
  10. mappy
    checked the pool temp last night, 89°
  11. mappy
    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
  12. mappy
    nice, thanks!
  13. mappy
    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. mappy
    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. mappy
    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. mappy
    mod risk for excessive rainfall
  17. mappy
    lol i meant later. sorry should have been more clear.
  18. mappy
    woo storms?
  19. mappy
    hahaha, we have four or five growing under our bird feeder too. we are letting them go, i love sunflowers!
  20. mappy
    yum! i had fresh green peppers, cucumbers and what cherry tomatoes that were ready, in our salads yesterday!
  21. mappy
    garden is doing great now that the heat is here. tomatoes finally coming around with lots of green ones on the plant.
  22. mappy
    nice! i know my husband hopes its wrong, he has teeball tonight with the kiddo and wouldn't mind an evening off. its been a busy week for us activity-wise.
  23. mappy
    yeah we brief downpour just came through work, but sun is back out now. and cool! i was hoping it was BC brewery as its within walking distance of my office and having a hook up there would be great lol Nice! I love mushroom looking clouds (of the weather variety)
  24. mappy
    i was in a meeting and walked to the window to take one lol
  25. mappy
    fast moving line came through not long ago. have a nice view of the clouds as they moved east.
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