RUNuts 2018 Garden thread (attempt)

[Nyboy]

I think a dumb dog is much easier to live with then a smart dog. Dumb dogs just goes with the flow happily. a smart dog tests you all the time and can be a challenge. A untrained dog can be either. Clients are shocked when they say " at what age will he grow out of this" my answer at the age you train him too.

 

[baymule]

I like smart dogs.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

Does anyone have Moringa seeds available?

i may have some of these. i will have to sort through my stash of seeds but i was sure i bought these at the end of last season.

 

[RUNuts]

We went to a garden sale/fund raiser and wound up with a Moringa. I keep trying to order seeds and now have a growing specimen. May have seeds myself in a few years. Or need another specimen to experiment on.

Seeds are expensive. Fund raiser plants are MORE expensive. Gotta know my limits.

If you have spares, PM me details. Or a cutting.

Banana went by the path on one of the drier parts of the yard. If the dogs don't roll in the fertilizer, we will be doing good. Otherwise, I get to use my new fencing skills. Thanks @baymule for the fencing encouragement. Less painful than I thought.

I'd been reading about the destructive potential of chickens. If these, ahem, Asian Ground Parrots are any indication, wow. To think I wanted a goat to save lawn mowing. Who would have thought...

 

[baymule]

Fencing ain't so bad.....just hard work. We gotta build a pig pen.....always something.

Chickens are the scorched earth of the animal world. Mow the grass indeed!

 

[thistlebloom]

I like smart dogs.

Me too, but for some reason that's all we've ever had. Some of them were a different kind of smart and we had to go looking for ways to recognize it, haha, but even those challenges in dog suits stole our hearts.

 

[thistlebloom]

Oh, just remembered one that didn't. I got him at a year old and there was no way to contain him on the property. He had to be on a long overhead runner cable.
He nipped three year old Kid#1 one day and I should have just shot him then. He got out of the yard soon after when I let him off his cable so he could run around a little. He rewarded me by racing off the property and down the road where a kid hit him with his car. Ended up with a big vet bill and had him put down in the end. Also got a big bill from the kids insurance company which thankfully our insurance paid. The only dog we had that I just couldn't like. We only had him for 6 months. But he was unredeemably dumb.

 

[thistlebloom]

To think I wanted a goat to save lawn mowing. Who would have thought...

That's pretty funny! Goats don't eat grass, but will raze everything a chicken can't reach. I figure you dodged a bullet. And that's coming from a dedicated goat lover.

 

[Nyboy]

I would one day like a poison ivy eating goat.

 

[RUNuts]

Crazy Lady brought home a terrier something. That bitch would tunnel under the ocean. I came home from work and was told that "WE" were going to have puppies. I thought "WE" had decided not to.

She taught all of them to dig. I had chain link laying in front of the chain link to keep them in. The lawn mower had a hard life. No more terriers for me.

More pleasant concerns. I was looking at the former flight cage growing new clover and the grass that survived (or was seeded). There is no reason I can't put flowers in there too. See what comes up! Loosen up some of that clay brick soil. Now that I have a 2' chicken wire around it, the dogs only occasionally go into it. Especially if a squirrel is in there. Flowers will be gorgeous. And I have an excuse to let the mower rest.

Maybe succession planting with cucumbers? Should have thought of this last month.

Planting sweet taters in the barrels by the parrot flight cage for a trellis. Sunflowers. Just found a pile of butternut squash seedling that survived the parrots. WOW. Need to transplant those.

The HOA loves my front yard. We have 1/3 seeded in black eyed Susans that bloom in a vibrant yellow explosion. They neighbors all love it. The HOA wants my flower bed edged. I got the road and driveway as edgings?!? Some people. Those things produce seeds like no one's business.