What is in your backyard?

[pute]

Rabbits are in my back yard. Eating my beats and beans. I have tried all kinds of repellents and nothing slows them down. The coyotes and foxes here have all died from distemper and until they make a come back i am at their mercy it seams. I put some Bone meal down a couple of days ago and it might be helping.

No, I can't kill them.....against the rules at my house. One of thees days the boss will be at the store and they might just magically disappear.

This isn't my back yard but it is this years version of the front. Rabbits are eating and s-hitting in the front as well causing some damage.

 

[Unca Walt]

She is out of breath just sitting there but you can’t suggest dieting or exercise lest you be labeled a racist(not sure how it is racist but it is 2022)…

How dare you call xer a "she", you racist.

 

[Unca Walt]

The maypops are flowering!
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Thassa passion flower. I gots 'em all over my front yard. All volunteers. Honeybees get on them and get drunk. Sometimes three bees at a time just face in head down, snarfing up the nectar.
Here's mine. Ya gotta get to them in the moanin'... by 1PM they are archives.

 

[oldfogey8]

How dare you call xer a "she", you racist.

I call ‘em as I see ‘em though since I can’t see if she has an innie or an outie, my eyes could deceive me…

 

[oldfogey8]

Thassa passion flower. I gots 'em all over my front yard. All volunteers. Honeybees get on them and get drunk. Sometimes three bees at a time just face in head down, snarfing up the nectar.
Here's mine. Ya gotta get to them in the moanin'... by 1PM they are archives.
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I am making a list of plants I would like to plant. Maypops and Passion flowers are on the list.

 

[Unca Walt]

I've got another weird one out front... It gets flowers on it that look remarkably like flying doves. The honeybees love the nectar of this plant so much, you can atually pet them! They ignore you when you stroke them their entire length with your pingle.

I've had visitors asking to have their picture taken doing it. The flowers look like this:

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[oldfogey8]

I've got another weird one out front... It gets flowers on it that look remarkably like flying doves. The honeybees love the nectar of this plant so much, you can atually pet them! They ignore you when you stroke them their entire length with your pingle.

I've had visitors asking to have their picture taken doing it. The flowers look like this:

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A few years ago, I had a male cannabis plant flower in my back yard. Bees absolutely loved the flowers and I could work around the plant without them giving me any notice. No psychoactive compounds in the males that I know of so I just think they liked the pollen more than my presence was bothering them. Didn’t try petting them though.

 

[RosterMan]

Rabbits are in my back yard. Eating my beats and beans. I have tried all kinds of repellents and nothing slows them down. The coyotes and foxes here have all died from distemper and until they make a come back i am at their mercy it seams. I put some Bone meal down a couple of days ago and it might be helping.

No, I can't kill them.....against the rules at my house. One of thees days the boss will be at the store and they might just magically disappear.

This isn't my back yard but it is this years version of the front. Rabbits are eating and s-hitting in the front as well causing some damage.

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Will Mothballs work? Spread them along the perimeter of the garden

 

[pute]

Will Mothballs work? Spread them along the perimeter of the garden

Hmmm, never heard of that.

 

[RosterMan]

Hmmm, never heard of that.

Never Mind It was Cats not rabbits

 

[RosterMan]

Hmmm, never heard of that.

 

[RosterMan]

Hmmm, never heard of that.

 

[boo]

moth balls are made from naptha...would you want that in your food...nah, didn't think so...

 

[pute]

moth balls are made from naptha...would you want that in your food...nah, didn't think so...

I just read that in the info Roster sent me...thanks

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Will Mothballs work? Spread them along the perimeter of the garden

I hate the smell of mothballs. My momma uses them. All her towels smell like them. My hubby uses them around the yard to detour snakes. Some say it works but I’d rather have the snakes. He was plenty pissed when I asked him to retrieve the mothballs he threw under our deck. It took him a couple of hours. I used them once in my strawberry patch after someone told me they got rid of slugs. Well actually they did get rid of the slugs but my strawberries tasted like momma towels I say no to mothballs unless you dig that smell which lasts forever…

 

[pute]

I haven't smelled a moth ball in ......I really can't remember.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I haven't smelled a moth ball in ......I really can't remember.

Didn’t your momma keep them in her linen closet? I thought everyone’s mom did

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I haven't smelled a moth ball in ......I really can't remember.

Next time youre in the hardware store pick up a box and give it a sniff to see if it brings back any memories

 

[pute]

I will pass..thank you SubG

 

[SubmarineGirl]

You afraid?