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New picture of Wally. He's so big my husband can't really control him to get his weight but he's getting big.
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Started working on making a new garden bed. Instead of just flowers I am going to add herbs and maybe some low growing veggies. I have some dandelion plants in the yard so I can dig them out and put them in the garden for the bees. I'm thinking about making it a certified wildlife habitat.
 

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With the aid of a Microscope; you might be surprised at ”what a wildlife habitat it all-ready is!
Oh yes I have found plenty of little critters under the soil. I read that it has to have a water source and plenty of leaves and twigs and also the plants for a food source. Then it's 20$ and done
 

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These are of the flower bed I am working on and as you can see it's full of rocks. It doesn't help that Wally decided to dig in it.
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AKRoberts,

you might be amazed by the rocks left behind when ice dams in the mountains break and ..

. glacial till rushes down in a flood. It isn't, in every way, a bad thing to happen on the aftermath and have a garden there.

;) Steve
 

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Started working on making a new garden bed. Instead of just flowers I am going to add herbs and maybe some low growing veggies. I have some dandelion plants in the yard so I can dig them out and put them in the garden for the bees. I'm thinking about making it a certified wildlife habitat.
You could also make a dandelion salad and dandelion flower tea! (Assuming the dandies in your yard haven't been sprayed.)
 

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You could also make a dandelion salad and dandelion flower tea! (Assuming the dandies in your yard haven't been sprayed.)
I avoid the chemicals as much as possible. The dandelions are chemical free and they would make my flower bed so pretty. I love seeing them bloom in early Spring. I also have a lot of white iris',both tall and short, that might fit in with what I want to do. I might dig up some of the lilies.
 
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