ridemariel's Journal, 12 September 2021

You're going to have a beautiful garden, sorry about Ida damage. Have a great day! 🌞 

Ida has brought in small and large creatures love bugs rattlesnakes turtles I have had it all ready for things to calm down 

Great looking plants! Hoping you get a good harvest. I just planted the last of my cabbage, kale and broccoli yesterday. Today will be final seeding of spinach, lettuce, baby chard, radishes, beets and baby carrots. Crossing my fingers for a late first frost. 

Wow Mariel, what hard work! I need to go out and weed, weed,weed!🙁 

Roof rats ate all my herbs! Parsley, chives, jalapeño, even the mint managed to die 😞 Only the rosemary seems impervious to rodents. 

Beautiful and ambitious! 

No fall planting this year. Renovating planters with self wicking systems them fall. 

I like the use of Dixie cups. 

I just decided to plant a winter garden! a little late. 

I know plastic isn't a good choice but these are used many many times before they give out and then recycling  

Wow, you have such a green thumb! Hopefully Nicholas doesn’t head your way! Take care! 

RM. I googled love bug, but are rattlesnake turtles a species? Or are saying rattlesnake, turtles? 

Eral66, The roof rats need to eat healthy too. 😜 

Sorry about that it was about 3 and a 1/2 foot rattlesnake and the turtle was swimming in the pool Last year my neighbor lost his little dog to a rattlesnake bite  

We live on the Dead end road not many neighbors and in the middle of nowhere so we see a lot of animals there's a big lake behind my house that attracts all kinds of animals including the gator that lives in my cove no swimming there I do not have roof rats but I have seen regular rats but my herb garden is beautiful I have a field of mint