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    Mowing is the worst for sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    My yard is a shitshow. I need to get off my ass this weekend and do some serious weeding and cutting back of bushes. I already pay a landscaper for mowing, I hate it so much.
    Yard work is a great way to enjoy the outdoors and get a little bit of exercise!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Mowing is the worst for sure.
    Pulling weeds out of the flower beds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kimmi View Post
    Pulling weeds out of the flower beds.
    When I was a kid, I used my grandfather's weed wacker and it broke. So I put it back in the shed and acted like I didn't know shit.
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    So shut up because you have no idea on what you say on anything as evidence of some of your ridiculous posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    When I was a kid, I used my grandfather's weed wacker and it broke. So I put it back in the shed and acted like I didn't know shit.
    LOL I can't remember one right now, but I sure I have a similar type story about breaking something when I was a kid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moonslav59 View Post
    My ex was majored in horticulture.

    It's the only good thing I got out of those 8 years.

    I went to town on my first home after my divorce. I had over 20 different varieties of day lilies and 30+ other flowers and flowering bushes. My favorite species was a black bearded Iris. My next home I did a lot, but not too extreme.

    I've been in this home for 13 years, and I've done things more slowly. It was hard for me to learn the native plants here in Texas, and several of my plantings did not make it. The solid in my yard is near solid clay. We had a few freezes over the years that killed off my numerous attempts at growing azaleas and bougainvillea. My lime tree froze one winter and came back as an orange tree (a lime tree was grafted onto an orange tree's roots and only the top part died in the freeze).

    Here's what I have now:

    2 of the biggest, fullest and nicest pineapple palm trees I've ever seen
    a wonderful fig tree
    avacado tree (I bring in every winter)
    pear tree
    apple tree
    lime tree
    grapefruit tree
    pomegranate tree
    red bud tree
    sago palm tree (more like a bush)
    pine tree
    magnolia tree
    live oak tree
    a flowering tree I can't remember the name
    3 types of cypress trees
    7 oleanders
    2 gardenias
    2 esperanzas
    12 knock out roses

    I'm not counting any annuals.

    A lot of work, especially trimming the palms. Their branches have spikes that numb and slightly paralyze the area it pricks. Weird, huh?

    I love trees and plants.

    That's hilarious your lime tree came back as an orange tree. I've had two kaffir lime trees that were grafted on to some plant, so I could see that happening.

    Our oleander just went nutz with flowers, calming down now, but this year it flowered way more than other years.

    Not sure if people from out of Texas would know about Live Oak trees, but they can be amazing when they get older, I love those things.

    When does the avocado tree fruit and for how long? I'd like to get one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Bought two more gardenia, two giant milkweed, more fennel since our current crop is covered in swallowtail butterfly cats and eggs, and some Everglades tomatoes which are supposed to grow really well down here.

    Our butterfly life cycle has been out of control this year.
    Butterflies are coming out in full force now. And just today the dragon flies came out in droves.

    I cooked using fennel for the first time a few weeks ago. What I made was incredible. Are they easy to grow? I would have thought they were winter plants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mvp 78 View Post
    Just built a butterfly garden:

    Cassia
    Herbs (many are host plants)
    Pentas
    Lantana
    Butterfly bushes of all kinda
    Milkweed
    Passion vine

    We’ve already seen the complete life cycle of monarchs, some zebra longwing, gulf fritillary and some swallow tail.
    Someone just posted a picture in a gardening group I'm in of a black swallowtail when in caterpillar state. they are amazing.
    In the town where I was born
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    In the land of submarines
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    'Til we found a sea of green
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    Rhubarb, mint, garlic, DANDELIONS (I eat them almost every night), tomatoes (which in my care are likely doomed), and 'weeds' (which I plan to harvest in October).

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    Quote Originally Posted by jad View Post
    Rhubarb, mint, garlic, DANDELIONS (I eat them almost every night), tomatoes (which in my care are likely doomed), and 'weeds' (which I plan to harvest in October).
    Makes me want to have a rhubarb pie. I haven't seen one sold or make in years.
    In the town where I was born
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    In the land of submarines
    So we sailed up to the sun
    'Til we found a sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    Makes me want to have a rhubarb pie. I haven't seen one sold or make in years.
    Jesus. Swing by here. I have bushels of the stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jad View Post
    Jesus. Swing by here. I have bushels of the stuff.
    Funny you eat dandelions. I spent a few months on a farm and we ate them as a salad every day, I really liked them. Wish I knew they were edible way back when during the time I use to take them out of the lawn and dispose of them. It would be interesting to see how many of them are plucked and disposed of throughout the country on a daily basis, when people could just eat them.
    In the town where I was born
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    And he told us of his life
    In the land of submarines
    So we sailed up to the sun
    'Til we found a sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves
    In our yellow submarine

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    Attachment 941

    I have four raised bed planters, two 12x6, two 16x6. These pictures are from a few weeks ago. The tomatoes are now up to my shoulders and I am over six feet tall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FredLynn View Post
    Love the above ground planters. When I get serious I will go that route. I can't make out what the plants are in them? Wait, aren't you from Humboldt county, must be weed I guess.
    In the town where I was born
    Lived a man who sailed to sea
    And he told us of his life
    In the land of submarines
    So we sailed up to the sun
    'Til we found a sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves
    In our yellow submarine

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