What did you do in your garden today?

[Cashoo]

You may not be able to take the plant. Many states have restrictions of carrying over state lines....so??

I looked it up and it seems to be fine.

 

[The Porch]

well i am just going to sit here a while by the fire and wait to see what the weather does. Its 37, ya, more coffee and thinking

 

[Cashoo]

I decided not to be an idiot

 

[R2elk]

Got my organic bug control today.

Spread them around on the fruit trees, in the garden and in the greenhouse.

 

[Mini Horses]

Do you have to buy or are you able to forage that many egg sacks? I'd suspect buy!! I've never found that many around in fact, don't see a lot of them here...believe my chickens see them first . Are they the Carolina type? Not Chinese!

 

[Hinotori]

I moved one of those to a more sheltered place when I found it mowing. I think we have the european ones here. Fairly small and green

 

[Hinotori]

The best story is when Mom was in town. She found a big mantis just hanging on the side of the grocery store in summer. High desert so hot and dry. No vegetation. She got that thing to let her hold it, put it on the passenger seat and took it home. She then held it up to her giant grape out front and it happily went.

 

[LaurenRitz]

This area has been mowed grass for so long that both pollinators and predators are in short supply.

I need to have reliable flowers before I can expect either to return. It wouldn't be fair to bring in a beehive only to have them travel miles after the redbuds stop blooming.

I'll be planting lilacs and rose of sharon. That one will bloom all season. The goji will bloom all season.

 

[R2elk]

Do you have to buy or are you able to forage that many egg sacks? I'd suspect buy!! I've never found that many around in fact, don't see a lot of them here...believe my chickens see them first . Are they the Carolina type? Not Chinese!

Bought on eBay. I've only found a half dozen here before. It did not specify whether these are Chinese or Carolina. I have bought both types before.

 

[R2elk]

The best story is when Mom was in town. She found a big mantis just hanging on the side of the grocery store in summer. High desert so hot and dry. No vegetation. She got that thing to let her hold it, put it on the passenger seat and took it home. She then held it up to her giant grape out front and it happily went.

I found a plastic bag hanging on my barbed wire fence. When I removed the bag there was a huge one sitting on the fence wire which I relocated into my garden.

Another time I was looking at lumber in Home Depot and found one crawling on the lumber inside the store.

Last year a friend who works at Walmart was watering mums when a whole bunch of them came out of the mums.