Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / July 2008

I wear sandals just about all of the time, at work, shopping, walking,
working, etc.  This includes the winter.  I just find them more
comfortable and my feet are healthy.
However there are times when I need some foot protection, e.g. using

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2326848,00.asp
I don't agree with much the author says.  Text usenet will continue.
Binaries will be gone.  But an interesting article.
K Barrett

going out of/cutting back on  bus. :(
http://www.hoosierorchid.com/
--j_a

Its too hot to do any more in the garden for a while so I thought I would
seek advise from the wisdom of this forum.
I have just cleared this area of the garden.
http://share.ovi.com/media/Muddymike.Garden/Muddymike.10533?sort=5

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utA9yENx-QA>
 Besides getting out early but with dew points over 70 yuck!
 Bill

These photos will show you my deck garden.
It is quite easy to grow fruits and vegetables and flowers in
containers.  And they all look so lovely of a fine summer's day.
http://flickr.com/photos/25648800@N04/sets/72157606378729074/

I have several occurrences of a weed known as "Selfheal" in my lawn.
It has not reached the point where it is becoming rampant but I have
pulled up approximately 20 of the spreading web like shoots that I
have so far located.

We have a galvanised weldmesh run for our chickens and I would like to grow
some climbers up it to provide some extra shade (yes, protected from curious
beaks!).  However, Tony remembers growing something up a galvanised fence in
the past and it removed all the galvanised surface ...

which may be of interest to some of you.
I have got my cabbages growing well and covered
with a net to keep pests off, (mainly Pigeons)
This morning I noticed a lot of white butterflies had got

I have few  asian pear trees on my backyard  (Hosui and 20th century).
According the information I found on the internet, the harvest time for the fruits is mid-August,
Does this mean they become totally ripened at that time?  or it is time to pick them up, and bring inside
the ...

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can anyone give me litle advice please, i own a callistemo
"bottlebrush" plant. its the one with the red flowers. i was wonderin
when do i dead head the old flowers and whereabouts do i cut on th
stem. i don't want to damage the plant. hope someone can help.

I've signed up to this forum as I have recently started to gro
vegetables out on my patio/balcony in pots and am having varie
success.
A couple of weeks ago I bought some (very) reduced pepper plants from

I just posted two Paph pictures on ABPO. I expect a small audience. If
you have signed up for the free Motzarella.org news server, you should
be able to see them.
Steve

A friend told me that I should pinch off the flowers from my potatoe
plants in order to divert that energy to the tubers. Do people feel
that is correct? I've done it for a couple years and it doesn't seem
to have hurt my crop.