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[liamsroom]

Beautiful little Apricot Drift Roses , the little purple flowers are Mexican Heather

#mygarden #zone9garden #naturalgarden #cottagegarden #garden #my garden #rose #pinkcore #pastel pink #rose bush

[sagesacre]

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[stormphyre]

#vegetable gardening #garden #gardening #flower #zone9garden #spider

[exteriortexas]

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[sageinthegarden]

A new snapshot from https://sagesacre.com/2022/06/03/remembering-less-squirrely-times/

Remembering Less Squirrely Times

This year I’m overrun by ground squirrels, but there was a time when they weren’t a problem

(Tip — the video has a surprise ending.)

The number of ground squirrels overrunning The Acre this year is astounding.

I don’t know if the dry winter let more survive, or if my neighbor’s newly constructed pool drove them out, or if all the good squirrel predators have changed their tastes, but I am literally stumbling over these rodents and their burrows everywhere.

I’ve found them wreaking havoc in the vegetable garden, the keyhole garden, and the greenhouse. This morning there was one chowing down on a cherimoya on my back deck. Since March I’ve trapped more than 40, and spent ungodly amounts on baits, poisons and gasses – all to little or no effect as far as I can tell.

It wasn’t always like this though.

Once upon a time we had four Dachshunds. Low slung wienerdogs with shovels for front paws and a single-minded determination to dig as far and fast as they could in pursuit of burrowing animals.

They were a quartet of rescues, all abandoned because they were the undesirable “tweenie” size, weren’t perfectly shaped for the breed, or had health problems like Cushing’s disease, bad backs, etc.

Individually they were plenty of fun, but together they were a pack of baying, barking hyperactive hounds that tore up landscaping and irrigation, and turned significant portions of the yard into a crater-filled moonscape in pursuit of gophers, moles and, most importantly, ground squirrels.

To my best recollection, they never caught more than one or two squirrels, but their sheer determination and persistence at chasing those rodents in their tunnels seemed to be enough to keep all but the most foolish squirrels far away.

The other day I got a comment on a video I posted years ago of three members of the weenie pack (Rommel, Franzi and Monty) working a burrow down on the slope of the dry creek. I had forgotten about the video, so when I clicked through to it, I was surprised to find that it had over a million views!

Three of the four have since passed, so only Hank remains. He’s of the age where prefers a good nap in the sun to a long dig. The other three are now all resting along the slope of the dry creek where the video was shot.

Interestingly, while the hill is riddled with squirrel burrows, there are none where the doxies now lie, which makes me feel as if they’re still doing their job – just without the torn up sprinklers and trenches.

Good dogs in less squirrely times.

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[lecstutor]

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[coridallasmultipass]

Peruvian Apple Cactus seedlings sprouted up in just over a week! Wow! 🌵🌵🌵🌵 Okay so, "someone I might know" took a small over-ripe fruit (it was already popped open for days) off a neighbor's streetside cactus before the animals got to it. The fruit was way too old to eat, but the seeds were still worth taking a chance on, and omG THEY POPPED UP SO FAST I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH EM!! 🌵 Apparently, the longer I can keep them covered with humidity and warmth, the better they'll grow. But I'm so excited, I didn't expect this to go anywhere because the fruit was so old, and I've never grown cactus from seed. 🍑 Speaking of, just to rant a bit, I HATE that my neighbors let the fruit in their yard go bad and fall off and rot. ESPECIALLY since this summer, our apricot tree got raided and cleaned off for the first time, and I'm still so fucking mad about it. (I'm certain it's our most recent neighbors that did it since their yard faces ours.) I only got one apricot off the tree because it was ripe but too hard and needed another week to grow, but someone cleaned off the entire tree and ground of every single apricot before I had a chance to harvest. (We don't have a door cam, unfortunately.) Drives me fucking mad. If you're gonna take fruit off someone's tree, especially when it's not even streetside, it's well into our property, only take what you can eat right there. You don't fucking take everything. 😠 Anyway. This neighbor has some really amazing different cactuses on the streetside. They're humongous and grow these 2 story high flower spikes and have tons of fruit. (Again, why don't these people eat the fruit???? I pay good money for cactus fruit in the store!!) So, hopefully these seedlings will grow into big cacti and make some Peruvian Apples for me. I'll definitely plant them outside when they're bigger, so they'll still be a part of the community/help with pollination. 🌼 I s2g I'm gonna take a walk with some bags and tongs and go knock doors and see which neighbors will let me just take it all. I'd be swimming in fruit. (Maybe not swimming with the prickly pears tho.) 🌵 #cactus #cacti #sprouts #seedlings #gardening #zone9b #zone9 #zone9garden https://www.instagram.com/p/ClK2TSvLcuX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[natashafredrickson]

Found a strange looking bird in the birdbath hmmm....🤔🤔 She's so funny, follows us around like a puppy, a fierce protector of the pumpkins and bringer of presents 🤮🤢🐁🐁 At least my tomatoes are safe this year!!♥️ . . . #AbbytheTabby #gardenguardian #mousecatcher #snacklover #cats #kitten #pets #californiagarden #zone9garden #zone9 #garden #california #gardenlife #pumpkins #teampixel #mygarden #dreamgarden #growsomething #organicgardening #summer #august #islandgirl #SoCal #losangeles (at California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSJ-24py0K/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[realidadviva]

Dimorphotheca Ecklonis, conocida como Estrella Polar, Margarita del Cabo. #dimorphoteca #margaritas #daisies #zone9garden #allkindofflowers #thebeautyin_flowers #eclecticshow #phx_flowers #ponyfony_flowers #quinta_flowers #quintaflower #flowerstalking #flowertalking #superb_flowers #drops_perfection #rainbow_petals #kings_flora #lory_pastelflowers #jj_florals #paixoesporflores #floralflourish #petals #great_flowers #petal_perfection #petalsandprops (en Bogotá, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5oqof8A3Mj/?igshid=uz41iyv4ltaa

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[tfbtfarms]

We have some beautiful tomato plants growing in the garden right now, there’s more than 50 plants and a good amount are cherry tomatoes. So delicious to eat straight off the vine, they don’t even really need to be washed because we don’t use chemical pesticides. This garden is going to be very red in the next few weeks as the tomato plants really start hitting the optimal age for production. #tomatoplants #gardening #gardenview #countrylife #openfields #skyline #sunset #homesteading #zone9garden #9a #gulfcoast #sweetthings #offthevine #growing #feedthepeople #farmersmarkethouston #homosteading #plantdaddy #letitgrow #naturelovers #organicgarden #nopesticides #naturallygrown #organic #grownwithlove #queerfarmers #homesteadersofinstagram #prettysky #nightiscoming #landscapephotography (at The First Best Thing Farms) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQd7SkVhuja/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[freshrewind]

Starting another #sweetpotato season. #blackmengardentoo #backyardgardening #zone9garden https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2miE7BEL3/?igshid=1pbqzf7a4bhdt

#sweetpotato #blackmengardentoo #backyardgardening #zone9garden

[thedisgardener]

This pigeon pea is making a great recovery. It used to be in a 10 gallon pot, apparently the tap root had escaped the pot and went into the ground. A hurricane uprooted it earlier this year and I ended up just transferring it in ground.

It's making a great recovery and putting on some new growth 😊😊

(I really need to harvest some of that lemongrass in the background haha)

#fruit #fruitsandveggies #gardening #garden #pigeonpea #peas #perennial #folk punk #veggie #zone9 #zone9garden

[sagesacre]

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[stormphyre]

Round two of seeds. They're doing better than the first batch so far. #tomatoes #seedlings #springishere #zone9garden https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTsD6iDaIH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[mrmaplematt]

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[sageinthegarden]

A new snapshot from https://sagesacre.com/2022/07/06/cashflow-zucchini-is-a-winner/

Cashflow Zucchini is a Winner

In a vegetable garden that’s been kind of a disappointment, this zucchini squash is a real standout

Cashflow zucchini with fruit on the plant in July 2022

Record heat, record cold, drought, rampaging ground squirrels — halfway through 2022, and the vegetable garden has been, at best, a mixed bag.

One bright spot is this Zucchini, Cashflow. Not only is the plant relatively compact, but it also grows upright, almost like a tree. What’s more, unlike other types of zukes, if you don’t pick the fruit right away (which I rarely do), they don’t keep growing until they’re the size of baseball bats. Rather they top out at 8 to 9-inches and the plant goes on to flower again.

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve pulled a dozen smooth and symmetrical zucchinis off of it, and it doesn’t look like it’s even getting close to calling it quits. There’s already four new fruit and a fifth one flowering now.

Definitely a really productive, low maintenance vegetable. I highly recommend it.

(Oh, and did I mention the seed was from 2012?)

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