So is everybody in their garden?

I'm stitching flowers which probably aren't found anywhere on this or any other planet

btw, it's 42 degrees F right now and my heat is on.

My 'garden' is very small now lol Yes, I have been doing stuff. Have this years catnip growing madly, also some nice chives and I put the geraniums in and out for days and they are now happily outdoor plants again. I cut them back recently and one has already bloomed. That's a nice, deep, blood red one. It was growing at the bridge club and I liked it so much I pinched - literally and figuratively - a cutting.

Next stop, more herbs, I find some flowers are fine but concentrate on things for the kitchen. My garden may be small but it's little lol

Here I am. (wave, wave) No gardening and not too much stitching, but I did do some shopping and finally got around to reading a very old, very fragile copy of a Tami Hoag mystery. It was the kind that I HAD to finish, but I was disappointed because it never totally ended and left some unanswered questions.

It's going to pour very shortly so I better take Puff for his morning walk. It's finally been raining but I must admit that when I said we needed some rain in this area , I didn't mean a monsoon.

Lucille

I want to see. It was 34 at dawn and 40 when I took the blankets off the veggies..

C

I find all her books are that way - more left unanswered then answered.

I'll take rain over frost...

C

Want some garlic chive seeds.... C

With the painters here all week I doubt I'll get much gardening done. I'm praying my "Miss Bateman" clematis survives. Loads of blooms but with the 34 degrees this am and the the painters (it's up against the chimney) I'm not holding out hope. At least it's supposed to get back to the 70's today. But brrrrr, that was chilly when I moved the car before 7 am when the painters were due.

I did manage quite a bit on Summer Breeze yesterday and read a few chapters of "The Whiskey Rebels."

Nancy

One expects cold weather in your neck of the woods but not here in the South

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

Actually, given the wind, my garden is in Manitoba. Maybe Fred is in my garden.

Dawne

"Trish Brown" wrote>>

Two things on the wasps--I have good luck with the glass wasp traps with the sloping sides and the "doughnut" type bottom. My wasps tend to like pink lemonade, others swear by beer (waste it on those beasts???) or Coca Cola. Apart from having to dump the drowned corpses every so often, it is great.

Another thing that is showing up here are fake wasp nests, which are paper, printed to look like the real thing. You just hang them up, and wasps, being territorial, apparently will stay 200 metres away. Haven't tried that, but I also have people tell me that a brown paper lunch bag will work too.

I had DD climb up my roof when it was still snowing (what, last week???) and knock down the current nest. I am terrified of the little beasts

Dawne

That's nice, Casey and Sparky can have a romp lol

If you know where the nest is, treatment is simple. Get the wasp spray available in Crappy Tire, think it's made by Raid, and after dark, blast the nest. They return to the nest by dark and this is a very simple matter, they'll never know what hit them.

Lovely day today, cool (12C, 54F) but bright & sunny. Cut the grass on two of the three lawns this evening. Sun getting low on the horizon at the moment (8:45pm) and shines right into my eyes as I try to read in the lounge; but would rather have that than those cloudy, windy, chilly & wet days of winter.

There are several types of anti-wasp sprays. The one you want is what I call a bomb. It does not send out a spray, but a jet, which can go up to

10 feet. So you can stay well away from the nest, and completely saturate it. HTH. Jim.

She used the foam spray first, it fills the entry to the nest, and if the little beasts are inside they are done. Once foamed, wait a few minutes, then take down the nest. The fact that it was cold helped as well, as they would be huddled up inside instead of flying around. My DS gave me the murdrous wasp trap a few years ago; mine is quite ornamental, but I have seen nice servicable ones for about $10 complete with wires to hang in trees. I think I will get one for the front yard; the current one sits on the deck.

Dawne

They will work, one year I had to kill the wasps (didn't generally bother as long as they behaved nicely) because they decided to compete at the humming bird feeder. Bye Bye wasps !

We use that with great success down here in Florida...given half a chance the little beasties would normally sting you while you were trying to exterminate them. The extra 10-15 feet (some say 20ft) gives the sprayer protection from the sprayees.

We have had a lot of much needed rain the last few days. I have been harvesting a lot of zucchini, crookneck and scallop squashes the last few weeks. The tomatoes are thriving, and I see flowers on the eggplant and pepper plants. One bell pepper I planted earlier has produced some lovely big peppers. The cayenne is churning out those hot little devils.

The basil, rosemary, oregano and mint are also running rampant. The main disappointment was the bush green and wax beans. We had oner crop, but that seems to be all. I will replant in the fall, and see if they are happier in cooler temps. It has been in the mid 80s to 90 here recently.

Gillian

Trying to do both. The garden is coming along wonderfully considering this is only it's second year. I put some phlox in today. Despite having lots of rain on the weekend, I already need to water some sections which are mostly sand.

MargW

I don't want either! I want warm, dry weather! Our ground is so saturated there's no way it will dry in time to plant veggies, unless I plant them in my flower beds, which are on higher ground. I'm hoping DH finishes my new trellis so I can at least plant my sweet peas tonight.

Please send thoughts of warm temps and low, low winds speeds for the next 2 weeks.....for me, Dawne & Fred, at least.

Joan