Wendigogo: rosekolodny: Wendigogo: I kicked some gardening arse this weekend and planted some poppy seeds. As mentioned in another thread, it'll be interesting to see if they actually grow. My lilac bush is in full bloom, no thanks to me.

The garden bed at the front of the house is overrun with ants. So I'm looking into ways to deal with that. We have pest control coming out this week.  Any other advice is appreciated.

I have California poppies sprouting in situ.  I have high hopes for them.

In other news, my autocarrot has gone absolutely mad.  I wrote hopes correctly, and it corrected to Hope's.  It ADDED two mistakes to a perfectly good word.

It's amazing how much autocorrupt gets wrong. It's just so counter-intuitive.

I wish you luck with the California poppies. They are so pretty!

As I may have mentioned, my back-up plan is sunflowers. My MiL gave me some seeds she got at a fundraiser, so I'll have zinnias, daisies, and marigolds too. Kind of getting in a gardening groove finally. It's nice.

Wendigogo: I kicked some gardening arse this weekend and planted some poppy seeds. As mentioned in another thread, it'll be interesting to see if they actually grow. My lilac bush is in full bloom, no thanks to me.

The garden bed at the front of the house is overrun with ants. So I'm looking into ways to deal with that. We have pest control coming out this week.  Any other advice is appreciated.

patrick767: AlgaeRancher: Anybody got tips on how to best deal with unwelcome vines?

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I have no special tricks. I just remember that when we moved into the current house in the fall a few years there were thick mats of dead vines covering a sizable wooded section of our backyard. The prior owner had nuked the area with some kind of herbicide. I cleared out a ridiculous quantity of dead vines. It appeared to have killed everything, but as I learned the following spring, that didn't stop the winter creeper. I've been pulling and digging it out of the ground ever since.

That first year was the worst. It still comes up here and there, but far, far less. I pull maybe a dozen sprouts a week this time and year and less later. Persistence. If I let it go, it would take over again.

Now that area is stuff we've planted and other native plants that got there on their own instead of a huge mat of winter creeper. Okay, the hostas and coral bells we planted aren't native, but we've added columbine, may apples, wild geranium, ginger, a little Virginia creeper (that I will not let take over), ferns, and I forget what else that are native.

Winter creeper? EXTERMINATE!

thrillbilly1967: Something for those with limited space or unco operating weather. Get plastic 55 galon drums. Cut in half lengthways. Put 2x4 legs on them. If you have weird weather where snow etc may pop up. Put small wheels on two of the legs. You can put a great many of these inside a garage. Make your wife park outside lol And wheel them back out after the weather passes. Or push them all close together and take half inch pvc and rebar and build a dome over and cover in plastic. Weather passes remove plastic. Be amazed what plants will survive if protected from ice. A single heat lamp inside an enclosure will save most. I ca build a pvc and rebar green house in about 2 hours thats 15x45 for about 100 bucks.

whatshisname: It's going down to 2C tomorrow night but this coming long weekend all my tomatoes are coming out of the cold frame.
I tried some tomatillos this year and they already have flowers!
Gotta get my beans and pumpkins in too.

knobmaker: I've always wondered why exactly.