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Lovely Ritafee to be able to hop down the road to that park! I'm about a 5 minute walk from Lake Ontario - so there are some great paved trails to walk/ride there, but it is often VERY busy - have pretty much steered clear of it on nice days since COVID. My mate often walks there early in the morning when it's much quieter - just a few dog walkers & sunrise watchers. Me - I'm watching my pillow at that time of day!!
 
Mendalla said:
Lyme is arguably worse. It doesn't kill you normally, but can be debilitating for years.
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We have a lot of ticks around here ... Garry has had Chronic Lyme Disease since September of 2015. It has been and continues to be significantly more detrimental to his quality of life and far more debilitating than the heart attack he suffered in 2018 from which he recovered quite speedily.
 
Sorry to hear, @Ritafee . I have heard many horror stories about Lyme but don't know anyone personally. I know my son has to be careful when mountain biking. Apparently, Gatineau Park is bad for ticks.
 
Ritafee said:
I call this my back yard ...
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....it is a 5 minute walk away from our front door. I did a walk about yesterday ... still some ice on the water and no blossoms did I find.
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That's a lovely place to have so close by! :love:
 
Back to those beautiful flowers . . .

We saw lots and lots of rhododendrons on the side of a mountain in one of the States. It might have been West Virginia.

These areas were known as "rhododendron balds." It seems to me they were part of the natural cycle after a forest fire. But this trip was many years ago and it is hard to remember.
 
There is one thing up here - the chives Chemguy threw into a permanent planter last year. I didn't really want chives (I don't use them in food, will eat them if someone else makes something). The planter is a wooden thing he stuck in the back corner, doesn't get the most amount of light. So there's 1 green thing in the garden, plus some weeds of course that start early. Clover on the bunny poop, some trees that start growing thanks to the tree from a neighbour on the backside of the fence.
 
Our violets are out, daffodils look great.
re ticks. I expect it is because we give dogs and horses things for heart worm so ticks falls in line with that. And the expectation that someone furry walking along in the grass will attack ticks. I know with horses it is also related to the cost of the animal

but people need to be very alert to ticks and the issues related to them. I have never found a tick in myself but have in my dog. Yuck. Really yucky things
 
We have chives up. I don’t use them tons either, chopped up in eggs. Garnish in soups. But they are early greens. Rhubarb is growing. We just need a bit of heat in Ontario
 
I have heard that seed companies are over run with orders. I am not the only one who struggles to eat greens when you only shop every two weeks

i hope that lots of parents struggling to amuse kids will have success with kitchen gardens

i love spring. Hate the mud but love the anticipation of growth

love all the photos you guys in the balmy west are posting
 
Lastpointe said:
I have heard that seed companies are over run with orders. I am not the only one who struggles to eat greens when you only shop every two weeks

i hope that lots of parents struggling to amuse kids will have success with kitchen gardens

i love spring. Hate the mud but love the anticipation of growth

love all the photos you guys in the balmy west are posting
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Yeah, I've gotten emails from some companies I have ordered from in the past. Some open and shut down their ordering system when they hit a number and fill, some just stopped taking orders as they have too much to process.
Luckily I ordered in the winter, so I have what I need. I was planning on getting a few extras (peas, as mine are a bit old, a cheap lettuce pack at the request of a nephew) - things I would buy in person and not bother ordering. I haven't seen anyone who is allowing pickups for seeds though out of the chains - walmart, Canadian Tire, etc. and that's where I would usually buy those things from. They aren't necessary though. The lettuce I was planning on sticking in the chive planter. Peas, I have enough seeds might just need to do lots of replanting due to low germination.
 
paradox3 said:
You don't put them on baked potatoes with sour cream? I can hardly believe this, lol.
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Nope, I usually passed on the chives, but if they were already present I would eat them.
I don't even use sour cream most of the time anymore, it's Greek yogurt. I though I digested it better. I tried to figure out the difference between them though and left confused when you factor in both come in a variety of fat contents.
One Christmas my parents had both for the perogies, as they knew we were using Greek yogurt but my Mom thought it was important to have sour cream too (she doesn't actually use either herself). They were placed into nice bowls and my Dad forgot which was which and no one could figure it out.
 
I don't eat most 'greens' or at least really try to limit them. I have tried to get kale a few times over the past month-ish and it's never come in the order.
We do eat broccoli for a green and have been having success getting that. Lately it's been that, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers that we get fresh. We also keep frozen stuff on hand - brussels sprouts, we have frozen broccoli too, peas, edamame, corn, mixed veggies. There's also canned stuff, I like the artichokes on pizza. Most of the 'vegetables' we tend to eat regularly are fruits.
 
Mendalla said:
Thought DEET worked (e.g. Off)?
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DEET works somewhat - though I still had to be 'unticked' every single night when we camped at Grasslands NP a few years ago. I was thinking that a systemic system that kills them before they can attach would be nice. The dog gets one pill in the spring and he's good for the season. It seems a bit unfair to me that I get chewed up by ticks, mosquitoes and black flies while my husband rarely gets any sort of bite.
 
KayTheCurler said:
It seems a bit unfair to me that I get chewed up by ticks, mosquitoes and black flies while my husband rarely gets any sort of bite.
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Rarely gets bitten or doesn't react when he is bitten. I get bitten. I see the little critters doing it. But I don't get the swelling and itching that my wife and son do (and I did when I was younger).
 
Rarely gets bitten - doesn't react. Ticks are a different thing though - every night he picked a couple of dozen off me - I rarely found one on him. Someone told me that biting things and ticks prefer a particular blood type so maybe that is part of the mystery?
 
My husband is a bug magnet too - they seems to love him. So far we have avoided ticks, but he is often swarmed by mosquitoes & hates that. I'm glad to have him around as diversionary bait!!
 
Panama was hell on Earth for Mrs. M and Little M, esp. the two days we spent in the interior rain forest. Still didn't bother me much, just more than usual.
 
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