FishinBC's Blog
FishinBC's posts about: Green Worms
Jul 17, 2007 | 8:21 AM PST
Tags: Green Worms , Pond , racoons , Heat , Watering
I am really missing our daily rain showers we were having for a while here! Everything is dry. I watered all the containers yesterday morning and went home last night to spend almost 3 hours watering everything. Things were looking kinda sad after the heat blast we had yesterday. More to come today and hopefully a little cooler by the weekend.
Went by Lowes and picked up some more perennials they had marked down. Also got a hardy hibiscus, it has one huge flower on it. I got them all watered and will get them in the ground this weekend. Trying to completely fill in this one bed and get it established before winter. Little by little it is coming together and I have high hopes that it will all come back and do well next year.
Took a recent photo of the pond and the elephant ears. There are a few new photos in a couple of my albums also. One of the baby pileated woodpecker who has now learned from mom how to get to the suet feeder.
Had two of the baby coons on the deck this morning when I got up, no sign of mom or the other kid. They are so cute and were both sleeping off full tummies in the feeding trough. Rob spotted them and spoiled their nap with his barking so they got up and shimmied down the deck post.
Well, I was wondering when they would show up and killed my first two victims last night. One of those big green worms had eaten the top of my cherry tomato plant and another was starting on the lemon boys. Grrrrr… They both got whacked in half with my garden shears. They are soooo gross!! Checked the rest of the maters over and didn’t see anymore. I will be diligent and check them often now. Not sure what else I can do about them. Checked my gourd plant when I was watering last night and I have a couple of little birdhouse gourds growing.
So hot last night even the dogs didn’t want to go for a walk. They sat on the porch while I watered then we all went in to collapse on the bed under the fan.
