plowed the garden

[joyce]

My cabbage looks a little better this morning. My lettuce looks horrible. I think it may all die. The carrots that were up are dead. But the dang weeds that had come up are live and growing like wildfire.

[SpyderLady]

Figures that the weeds wouldn't be affected. I wish it had got some of that wild ground cover that thrives in my backyard and gets in my flower beds. I heard the sweetgums won't have the balls this yr maybe. Hope so. I got them in back corner and those little devils grow like crazy. I can't keep em out of my yard!

[joyce]

I guess some good came out of the cold snap after all. ;DCool no sweet gum balls. The back pasture has about 6 sweet gum trees and I get so tired of stepping on and running over those stupid things.

[buzzard]

spyderlady said:

I heard the sweetgums won't have the balls this yr maybe.

Oh my! Won't that traumatize the little darlins?

[GRANDMA COW]

WHAT IN THE WORLD AAE SWEET GUMS??

[SpyderLady]

Well, sweetgum trees have sharp spiny balls that drop on the ground with seed in it. If ya ever stepped on one barefoot you would not be so fond of em either. They grow in a clump in the corner of my yard and little trees keep popping up all over there. They seem to be the first ones that blow over in a storm. Bent my fence couple times. Been thinkin about cutting all those bigger trees but they ain't on my land.

[joyce]

When we had the back pasture bulldozed about 7 years ago, we marked the trees we wanted saved. Or hubby did. I will blame him. All he wanted saved was blame sweet gum trees. Now we have about a half dozen of them in the pasture and thousands of the stupid sweet gum balls. Men.

[GRANDMA COW]

WHAT GOOD ARE THEY?
I KNOW WE HAVE HEDGE APPLE BALLS
THEY SERVE A PERPOSE FOR SOME THINGS
I HATE THEM AND CEDAR TREES YOUR RIGHT
JOYCE {{ MEN }}

[SpyderLady]

I guess you could spray paint the balls and use in crafts such as ornaments or wreaths.

Or put them around plants that have trouble with slugs.

Or use them as mulch to keep dogs and cats out of flower beds, but I would make sure the seed was dried up and taken out or you will have little trees everywhere!!

Or you could keep a pile of them handy to throw at kids and animals that come in your yard.

I read somewhere there is an ingredient they use in bird flu drug that is in these balls. Wish they would come get mine.

I think plywood is made from the trees. They grow really fast and could be used as a shade tree, but who would want all those sticker balls on the ground every year? They are just a nuiance to me! But the leaves are pretty in the fall.

But that's what I say every year...what are they good for!!

[GRANDMA COW]

OH I MIGHT HAVE TO COME GET A FEW TO STICK IN A BED SO THEY WOULD AT LEAST HAFT TO GET UP LONG ENOUGH TO GET THEM OUTTA THIER BED

[SpyderLady]

I guess they know now, that's where babies come from. LOL! But good idea for use of sticker balls. lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joyce]

Well my taters are coming back up again. I'm surprised they have put out again this quick. Now if the trees will put back out. They sure look bad around here.

A little to damp to work any ground today, hopefully tomorrow I can and the major planting will be underway.

It froze my onions and they have already rotted. Yuck.

[CuPcAkE]

mamafrog said:

OH I MIGHT HAVE TO COME GET A FEW TO STICK IN A BED SO THEY WOULD AT LEAST HAFT TO GET UP LONG ENOUGH TO GET THEM OUTTA THIER BED

I am special ordering a truck load of those things and I will always have a supply to keep them "turned in the bed"

[joyce]

Got my beets, green beans, and 2 rows of cranberry shelly beans planted yesterday.

The trees that it got a couple of weekends ago are trying to bud again.

[SpyderLady]

I am wondering if my hollyhocks are going to leaf out again. They hide my deck pretty good so I am hoping they survive. Thats where I tan.

[joyce]

All my hollyhocks are dead. If yours come back and bloom this year save me some seed, pretty please..........

Got all but 1 row of the north garden planted . Gonna save that row for tomatoes and summer squash.

Still tilling in the south garden. It's rough going, but I'm a gettin' there.

[SpyderLady]

I planted an Easter Lily today that a sweet man gave me. And put my tommie toes out, tired of setting them outside and forgetting about them...so if they don't make, I don't really care. lol

If I ever make myself go to Walmart or Lowes I guess I will get one or two tomato plants. Maybe I will go tomorrow.

[SpyderLady]

Oh, joyce, I got lots of seeds saved from the holly hocks. You can have all ya want! Most of mine are...or were?? pink. I have ? had? a few white and a darker pink one and one double. I guess most of the seeds are pink tho. Didn't separate them.

[joyce]

That's ok. I love any color of hollyhocks. I've had a hard time getting them to grow here. When I was a child living at home we had the most beautiful red ones and white ones. They were the double ones.

[SpyderLady]

I looked at them yesterday and bent a twig and it appears to still be green. This has never happened before so don't know if they will keep thriving and leaf out again or give up...