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Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you Gracie!!! I am planning to talk/email someone at the plant clinic on Monday. Thanks for those tips!

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-22-2004

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
DH said he doesn't know if the clinic will be open on Monday - the Arboretum is open, but the clinic is probably closed. You can call to find out - 968-0074

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 5:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ooh, good point Grace! Might be calling Tuesday instead!

Tmagicsaq
Member

03-26-2004

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 4:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hi, I need some help....I found a roach in my apartment tonight and I am freaking out about it. I have never lived anywhere where there are roaches, my place is clean and the apartment building is clean. I know they can happen anywhere clean or dirty but it freaks me out.
I have heard that bay leaves help deture them. And if you brew catnip like a tea and spray it around the edges of the apartment it also helps deture them. I plan on getting boric acid to use where the dog can't reach. Have any of you heard of any of these or have any other ideas as to what I can do?
I plan on telling the super this morning but I feel I need to do something.
Thanks for your help

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 5:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had roaches at one place I lived at..it was nasty. If you have seen one, sorry to tell you that you have probably have more. I would first make sure that you put all food in plastic containers so they cannot get into them. Also, I remember that black dots? are the eggs.

I got from a vietemese store a thing called "chalk" it looked just like a piece of chalk and as soon as the roach touched it is suppose to go and die. I used this all over after washing my entire kitchen out.

I know my old neighbours used caulking absolutly everywhere so they couldn't get in their apartment.

Check the bathroom too. You never know.

You will get through this, and don't feel dirty and like you are not cleaning. I heard that you could pick one up from a store in a bag or something and bring it home.

Hang in there and let us know how things go.

I also googled this and here is a link to check out some sites with ideas to help you out.
getting rid of roaches

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 6:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No advise on the roaches, never had them but from what I hear they are a real pain.

I got my garden planted on Monday, Tuesday morning I looked outside and saw several piles of dirt in the garden, upon investigating I realized I had a Pocket Gopher move in over night. By the time I got home from work yesterday he had made 12 mounds between my vegtable garden and my flower garden ( gives a whole new meaning to the phrase busy as a beaver) I spent an hour and a half digging up my garden trying to find one of his tunnels so I could bomb his ass, as luck would have it I could not find any of the tunnels, the only thing I can think of is that the dirt was so soft from having been dug up over the weekend that while I was digging I was caving in his tunnels. I ended up leveling all his mounds and stomping around trying to distroy any tunnels he had made.

Hopefully he will get irritated and move out, nothing worse than an annoying neighbor.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have been taking such good care of my raised garden this year making sure to use Miracle Grow, water and weed. Everything in my garden looks so good. I planted several hills of corn but only one came up, squirrels ate them. I was so proud of this one corn plant, babied it and showed it to everyone. WELL!!!!!! My damn neighbor came over yesterday and had the gall to ask me what variety of corn that was and I told him Silver Queen. He said "Your corn looks great too bad you want get any ears of corn from it". I said "why not", he said "because it's wheat"! In a post of mine above I stated that I could not distinguish the plants from the weeds in some cases. Next year I am planting NOTHING but plants NO more seeds and every dang one of them are going to have a label on them. I can't believe how much attention I gave to that darn wheat stalk.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Kristy, I'm sorry none of your corn survived but the story has me LOL, even if it had turned out to be corn, you would have needed several of them to survive in order to get any corn, they would need to polinate with each other.

I have never had any luck with corn, but from what my mom told me years ago you need to plant at least 3 rows of it for it to do anything.

Still chuckling over your corn plant, hey you can keep the wheat and make a loaf of bread LOL.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And you need to plant it in a square, or so I've heard.

I also heard from my landscaper -- the front retaining wall is going in in about two weeks, so I'll finally be able to plant my front garden!

Graceunderfyre
Member

01-22-2004

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw a roach in my apt over the weekend and flipped out. Since I don't know how my neighbors live, I can't say they aren't elsewhere in the building. DH was not very encouraging - he said for every 1 you see there are 100 in hiding. I want to believe he was teasing me.

Tmagicsaq
Member

03-26-2004

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the help, I will try everything that I read and was advised. I figure one of them may help. I really like where I live and hope we can get this under control. The super is going to get the apartments sprayed. I will still continue doing all the other stuff as well, probably forever because new people move in all the time. I talked to the lady that lives down staires from me and she has seen them as well, she didn't tell the super, which I got mad at. She didn't seem too bothered by it. I know it is just a bug, and I am not scared of bugs, I just don't want to live with them!


Graceunderfyre
Member

01-22-2004

Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 5:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I completely understand Tmagic - I feel like my parents used to do those bombs when we would go away on vacation so it would have time to air out by the time we got back - but that may have been for ants not roaches. . .

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 5:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK, I have 2/3 of my backyard, raised bed gardening done. The roma tomatoes, bell peppers and hot peppers take up one 4'X8' bed, with cantelope, baby watermelon, grape tomatoes, green beans, yellow beans, carrots and lettuce in the other. I need to build a third yet for herbs, raspberries and strawberries, but not until this heat wave breaks...

And the landscaper comes next week to start my 50' retaining wall! One that's done, I can put in the front yard perennial garden.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, the retaining wall is finally going up, and my neighbors have only called the township a half dozen times to complain about it. {sigh}

(The backyard is done. I go to the garden center on Friday to buy my $500 worth of plants I'm limiting myself to this year...)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Prisoner, why are your neighbors complaining? I bet everything is going to be beautiful. We limited ourselves to $150 in plants this year and it's a titch skimpy.

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 5:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Because they have nothing better to do with their sad, pathetic little lives?

The first complaint was the wall was going to be too high. They saw the dirt piled high in the front yard and assumed that was the height of the wall, not realizing that the dirt would be used to back fill the wall.

The second complaint was dirt in the road. The bobcat used to excavate the hill needs to go out into the road, and it tracked mud into the road. The guys swept it up, but still dust flies when a car goes by. Public works said just sweep it up at the end of each day, and keep the sewer grate clear.

The third complaint was the trucks parked in the road. When they first get there in the morning, there might be three trucks (the truck with the trailer for the bobcat, a dumptruck to haul away extra dirt, and the landscapers truck). They just need to make sure there is enough room for a car to get past at all times.

After that, I stopped keeping track...

This year I'm putting in all perennials; it's a little late for annuals here. There's going to be a lot of shasta daisies, coreopsis, and russian sage, mainly because they are fairly cheap even in the gallon containers, and they grow fast. U dud buy $100 worth of roses already...

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL

Well, I understand a little bit. We put in a new garage two summers ago and it was a long, noisy summer for the neighbors involving backhoes, trucks, cement pouring, and building. I went to each neighbor at least a month before and explained the situation and they were all very accomodating except my next-door neighbor who still hasn't started mowing his share of the side lawn. I guess he figures I put it back in so it's all mine now.

Hope it all works out for you...now I'm going to go looking for some coreopsis. Are you taking photos? Please...

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Didn't know where to put these pics and should look to see if there is a photography thread I guess, but wanted to show you my daughter in law's work:
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Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 3:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow! Those are lovely, Grace.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here are some of the flowers on my deck this year:

poppy
flowers

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And these are some of the flowers in the lagoon by my front door:
flowerslagoon

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And here's one of my hanging baskets. I tried to go more with evergreens this year (rosemary, boxwood, for all-year interest).

And with that, I think I'd better stop posting photos now before I get in trouble...
hanging baskets

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, wait just one more. Here's my hens & chicks (planted modestly last year and out of control this year), with my favorite little boy sunning himself in the background...

hens

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow what a green thumb you have. Thanks for sharing your beauty with us.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Exquisite, Yankee, I love to see your gorgeous deck all decked out for the summer.

Urgrace, your daughter-in-law's photos are lovely, too. I especially like the one with the bee.