tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post112758924044150575..comments2023-10-31T05:56:45.788-07:00Comments on LutheranChik's "L" Word Diary: Weekend Frog Blogging and Garden Wrap-UpUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127670383683756912005-09-25T10:46:00.001-07:002005-09-25T10:46:00.001-07:00Oh, Nicodemia, you come back anytime! As I've men...Oh, Nicodemia, you come back anytime! As I've mentioned here before, I actually get <I>depressed</I> when it gets too quiet around here. You can be my codependent.;-)<BR/><BR/>French beans -- love 'em, but so do the deer around here, so I've given up on them. I did stick a couple of old runner bean seeds next to my clematis plant along my garage, and for about a week I had some nice red blooms in with the clematis...only about three beans, though.;-)LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127670383060209662005-09-25T10:46:00.000-07:002005-09-25T10:46:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127660924198486512005-09-25T08:08:00.000-07:002005-09-25T08:08:00.000-07:00I like froggy! Our frogs, (Rana temporaria) mayb...I like froggy! Our frogs, (Rana temporaria) maybe are a bit bigger than yours. We haven't had so many this year in our pond. Last year we had 25 or more! They didn't eat enough slugs, though! Most of the tadpoles turned into froglets, but we haven't seen them since. We have a very friendly toad, as well.<BR/><BR/>I envy your vegetable growing. Our soil is very light, a bit sandy and acidic, so vegs don't do well. But I grew some lovely climbing french beans in tubs up and over two arches. We had masses, too much for us to eat, so I froze them.<BR/><BR/>I ought to be out tidying up the garden. But I'm not!!<BR/><BR/>Hope you don't mind me butting in to your Blog! Tell me to go, if you do!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127649979765217402005-09-25T05:06:00.000-07:002005-09-25T05:06:00.000-07:00Well, in past years I've planted my 'maters indoor...Well, in past years I've planted my 'maters indoors from seed, but we have so little room to keep seedlings here in Cold Comfort Cottage(aka "Das Boot") that that is really not a workable option. This year I got seedlings from my food cooperative, which just built a little greenhouse for doing such things; from another local greenhouse whose owner seems to share my taste for the unusual; from Meijer's (my shopping mecca...when I make my occasional excursions into civilization I go to Meijer's); and from Pamida -- think low-rent, substandard Kmart for very small towns in the Upper Midwest -- which this year was selling heirloom tomato plants. There's some outfit in California that specializes in shipping heirloom tomato seedlings, that I bought a couple from several years ago, but of course you pay an arm and a leg for the novelty value, plus an arm and a leg for shipping and handling, and by the time they get to you, the plants are pretty beaten up.LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127620442553615892005-09-24T20:54:00.000-07:002005-09-24T20:54:00.000-07:00After reading your tomato review, I promptly emai...After reading your tomato review, I promptly emailed two of my Master Gardener friends who would love the article.<BR/><BR/>I am so sorry I didn't plant any tomatoes this year. Where do you get your "mater" seeds/plants from?<BR/><BR/>Love those "mater" sandwiches.<BR/>CathyCathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279097751133383753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127620292735666812005-09-24T20:51:00.000-07:002005-09-24T20:51:00.000-07:00I love amphibia. (That would be a great bumper st...I love amphibia. (That would be a great bumper sticker...with the heart.) I just wish I'd gotten a better shot of this little fellow, so everyone could see his "bandit" eye stripe. They're really cute. (For city slickers reading this, that's techical field observation talk.;-)) One type of frog I didn't see this summer, though, were the tree frogs -- usually they startle my mother at least once a year by showing up on the screen door.<BR/><BR/>Those peppers sound great, B. Someone I know, who manages a senior center around here, was gifted with peppers from a senior diner's garden. She assumed they were sweet banana peppers...when she sliced one up and proceeded to pop a piece in her mouth, it turned out that it was fiery hot, like cayenne; and she also burned her hands, and wound up soaking them in rubber gloves filled with milk, per the advice of the other seniors, who were getting a big charge out of this spectacle...it overshadowed the real entertainment scheduled for that day.;-)LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127611956352764812005-09-24T18:32:00.000-07:002005-09-24T18:32:00.000-07:00Yes, indeed. Rana sylvatica. One of my summertim...Yes, indeed. <I>Rana sylvatica</I>. One of my summertime research subjects. In fact, I have a nice frog-and-toad-call CD, if you'd ever like to borrow it. Wood Frogs sounds sort of like a gaggle of quacking ducks. I saw one this year in my wanderings, too, and kind of just hung out watching him.<BR/><BR/>Nice flora and fauna roundup! I have about a hundred cayenne peppers hanging by thread and twine from the curtain rod over my big kitchen window. They were my best crop this year. Now I need to grind them into powder, and also take the seeds out of my Cherry Bomb peppers and use 'em on pizza. Got lots of cubanelles, too, and shared 'em with the kids next door.<BR/><BR/>My Carolina Golds were actually the best of the tomato crop. Tiny and sweet and wonderful.<BR/><BR/>Everything else kind of got burned up this year, though. My grass is totally brown.blshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627725321531151309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127604572163430022005-09-24T16:29:00.000-07:002005-09-24T16:29:00.000-07:00*ribbit*how sweet!*ribbit*<BR/><BR/>how sweet!Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06124847109117072966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838182.post-1127595766106211392005-09-24T14:02:00.000-07:002005-09-24T14:02:00.000-07:00Hi Mr. Froggy,Simple pleasures....CathyHi Mr. Froggy,<BR/>Simple pleasures....<BR/>CathyCathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279097751133383753noreply@blogger.com