Tuesday, hot gardens

[jackiejj]

It's June, and that means june bugs making lace out of the four-o'clock leaves and baby mimosa trees sprouting among the carrots and beans in the vegetable garden.

June also means too little rain and hot humid afternoons, so that even the dandelions shrivel up by the shed.

Comments

[poliphilo]

Rabbits like most fruit- they certainly like strawberries- so they probably like blackberries.

Basically, if it's a vegetable they'll eat it.

[jackiejj]

Hi, Tony.

Sounds like a nice place to live if a rabbit, huh?

My grandsons now have two rabbits. They take them to nursing homes sometimes, so people can pet them.

[poliphilo]

Our rabbits aren't very pettable. They hate being picked up for starters.

[_lethe_]

The deer probably thought the roses needed deadheading.

At least they are not messy eaters.

[jackiejj]

No, they were very neat. And I don't think they ate a single thorn.

The hostas are just now blooming by the porch. I suppose they are next, now the roses are gone.

[pameladean]

Rabbits definitely eat raspberries, and very cute they look doing it, too; luckily for them. So I expect they'd like blackberries.

I borrowed a friend's push mower for our yard, but our yard is awfully lumpy and full of weird stuff, and it was too much for me. I also discovered that I'd have to mow far more regularly and stop using the mower to whack back the wild rosebushes and the tree seedlings, if I were to use a push mower. This is not going to happen. I will not mow in certain kinds of weather, and we get a bad cycle of horribly-hot, torrential-downpour, horribly-hot that means I can go three weeks without mowing.

We have an electric mower, so at least there's no fussing with gasoline, and it starts with just pulling the deadman switch back.

P.

[jackiejj]

Lumpy yards just won't work with whir mowers.

I would have liked an electric mower, but the idea of buying hundreds of yards of electric cords was too daunting. Is that how it works, or is there a battery, like a Prius has, and you just plug in your mower at night?

[pameladean]

We have a cord, but it's only a hundred feet long. We do NOT have exterior outlets in front, so I have to open up the front door and plug the thing in inside, first unplugging the paper shredder that lives by the mail table. But it's only a minor annoyance.

It has just fairly recently become possible to get an electric mower with a battery that lasts long enough to mow our yard. We'll probably get one, or whatever better is available, when ours dies.

P.

[bojojoti]

I was always afraid I'd chop my foot off with the whirring mowers--all those sharp blades. I used them, but I was always overly cautious, so it was a tense exercise!

[chochiyo_sama]

my regular glasses have shiny "gems" on the bows. I bought them because I knew my students would love them. LOL.

I regularly get complimented on how cool my glasses are from random strangers and store clerks as well as people I actually know.

Heh heh.

A bit ostentatious, perhaps, but I am enjoying them.