Foxy Lady: aha - gotcha. thank You for enlightening me, Ma'am. :)

Foxy Lady: erm...what word?

skipinnz: lol! alright! thanks for the explanation in terms i can understand!

WatfordFC: well You have to admit it would be a risk!

and please forgive *my* ignorance, but just exactly how does beer get rid of slugs? do they drink it and then try to drive home and wrap their little slugmobiles around dandelions and stuff?

Mousetrap:

Mousetrap: wow, You must be pretty slow if slugs can beat You to Your garden!

Foxy Lady: aww...sushi chefs sure do manage to shave them thin! must use Ginsu knives or something.

Foxy Lady: even with a potato peeler?

Foxy Lady: aha, right, of course: ginger root. looks kind of like ginseng, doesn't it? though less man-shaped?

ginger ice cream = yum. i discovered it at a great local sushi place. Japanese phenomenon, evidently. and most yum.

skipinnz: wow. i don't know if i've ever seen a ginger plant.

Foxy Lady: speaking of ginger for the kids, and hoping i'm not getting too , have You ever tried ginger ice cream? mmmmmmmm.

WatfordFC: thank You, sweet Lady.

Foxy Lady: thank You, Lady. :)

WatfordFC: lol...well yes, You're amazing too, Lady!

Foxy Lady: oh - do You mean the movie? because i looked at the whole article but didn't see any other pictures...and i didn't notice the movie was a movie until i just now went back to see what the heck You were talking about.

but this is getting ...

is She amazing, folks, or what?

Foxy Lady: nice. what's a strawberry jar?

Foxy Lady:

spicieangel: i don't know offhand, sorry - though if Ms. ajtgirl does mail order - or if You're in the New York area - She may be able to help You. if not, and Your local gardening center doesn't sell them, there's always buying online. :)

and i imagine they are something like the air plants You had as a kid, though i don't know for sure.

Dolittle and Ms. Fox: that'll work!

Dolittle: sounds lovely! i've been thinking about a veggie garden lately, but really got noplace to put one where i live now. :/

skipinnz: ah, right - tillandsia. thank you. :)

spicieangel: what were those air plants we were talking about a few weeks ago, Ms. ajtgirl? think those would be apt candidates for Ms. angel's driftwood project...

nobleheart: i love the smell of lilacs myself. we have some very straggly (but very big!) ones in our side yard whose delicate bouquet saved them from my thinking they were gigantic weeds and pulling them up.

told You i'm no gardening ace!

ajtgirl: well-said, Lady.

ajtgirl: erm...because we're not a fellowship, Ma'am - we're a global discussion board, and those are structured differently than fellowships.

and now that You mention it, i'm not exactly sure why that is. but it is.

Foxy Lady: no, i don't think so. we don't have a main page like a fellowship does.

spicieangel: aww. :) i bought a beautiful bonsai that has Your little Chinese man's brother fishing under it!

wow...and the article skip referenced also says this:

Known for centuries as Lucky Bamboo, the plant is not a bamboo at all (botanical name: Dracaena) but a resilient member of the lily family that grows in the dark, tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and Africa.

fascinating.


feng shui is so cool. :)

skipinnz: wow. wonderful information. that's the bamboo we have, but i never knew it was lucky bamboo. how fine!

nobleheart: i've sent you a PM about it; for anyone else who'd like to know, here's how you do it:

<a href="your URL here">text you want to appear as a link here</a>

so that

<a href="http://www.myriadlights.com">my web site</a>

appears as

my web site.

:)

now that's all i'm going to say about it here.

Foxy Lady: well, that's better than no side picking up, i'd say, Ma'am...i'll be interested to hear what Ms. ajtgirl has to say.

nobleheart: ewwww!

but this is too for our Fox. let's bring it back to the topic of gardening as such.

Ms. Fox: or perhaps if You can't or don't want to move Yours You could put something over it to shelter and protect it when it rains? a translucent tarp held up with some kind of sticks or a trellis-like rig or something, maybe? something to serve as an instant and temporary greenhouse.

i'm sure if such a thing is commonly done, Ms. ajtgirl will be able to tell You about it...

Foxy Lady: i'm so sorry You're upset, Ma'am. i hope the cutting back fixes it all up for You!

Foxy Lady: yes Ms. Fox. i read someone else's saying they talk to people all over the world and everybody's experiencing it. it's the way some people have been carelessly messing with the environment, i'm sure.

nobleheart: here's a very interesting site for learning to identify plants by features. which isn't quite the same as identifying them right out, but which should be of more interest to members of this fellowship who don't already know how to do this.

Learning to Identify Plants by Families

enjoy!

Foxy Lady:

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am!

Foxy Lady:

Foxy Lady: i know my job, Ma'am!

nobleheart: good lad, veering back on-topic so quickly.

ajtgirl: we've got a nice steady rain falling on long island right now. lighter than it was an hour or two ago, and the thunder and lightning seem to have abated. but our lawn and planty-plant-plants can sure use the rain.

Eriisa: well i'm glad You asked, Ma'am, because i've long wondered myself but i guess i wasn't quite curious enough to actually go look it up. now i have.

evidently the simplest way to describe sprinkler system winterization is to say it's the process of removing all the water from the system's pipes so that the water doesn't freeze, expand, and crack them. and evidently there are three ways to do it, which are described in detail here.

i hope this answers Your question, Lady. it answered it better than *my* curiosity demanded it be answered...

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am! forgive me??

Foxy Lady: i'm sorry, Ma'am - i *did* put "de-" in front of it!

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. that's great. :)

i only just called to have the sprinkler company come and de-winterize our sprinkler system for the season. they're probably going to be working in the rain!

Foxy Lady: not here yet, Ma'am. but it's lovely out there. beautiful temperature, and almost completely still...the breeze, if you can call it that, is so slight that i wouldn't know it was there if i didn't see leaves and the clapper thingy on the wind chimes moving just the teensiest bit.

it's weather that portends rain, alright.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. understood.

i shall go look now.