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Diana. .177, 1100fps
I use Victor and Macabee traps.
Poison bait rarely works, civilian gas never does. Pro gas works very well. Flooding uses too much water and only works on level ground.

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Dude, make yourself a gopher skin cape and you reign supreme over your garden. You shall be legend.:banger

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:hmThey do have nice soft fur...

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You shoot them with a BB gun? No kidding..... learn something new everyday.

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Pellet rifle. You can not shoot BBs through it. I can hit them in the head from 50 yds. Open sights. ;)

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not a very good pic there guys but that is my garden i was smokeing in a storm under a parosol
[IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/16a3cpu.jpg[/IMG]

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Picked my first sweet banana pepper today.

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...zs/Picture.jpg

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Looking good! How are you going to consume that one? Salsa additive? Enjoy the fruits of your labor my friend. :)

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I think I will just chomp into it like a carrot. :dr Wassup doc!

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Picked three more sweet banana peppers today and ate them in a salad. :dr

I noticed a Pablano pepper and a purple pepper getting ready for picking.

The tomatoes are forming but none are red quite yet.

Asparagus is still popping up slowly but I'm still holding back.

I see some of the cucumbers and squash are flowering so that means more veggies soon.

That's my update. :)

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Pictures soon.

It's rained 10" in Charleston in the past 6 weeks. My garden has been suffering. I have managed my first double fist-sized tomato, a 5 gallon bucket of squash (tossed out as many that had rotted), 3 nice cukes, and my Early Jalapeño bushes are FULL of nearly mature peppers. The herb garden is growing like a weed (which they are). I can hardly keep up with it. Fresh veggies and fresh herbs are a summertime treat.

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Here we go. I get home, it's rained nearly another inch. Since May 11, we have nearly 11.5 inches. That's crazy. It gets hot as hell, then boomers roll in during the evening and at night. I should have planted rice!!

I forgot to mention my onions in the last post. They have really struggled with the wet garden. I lost nearly all my yellow onions. The whites are still growing...big and tasty. I chop up the small white bulbs and green tops and saute with butter and a little oil and salt/pepper. So freaking good! Also, thanks for everyone's pictures. They bring smiles to my face. Richard is a photo guru. He make's a simple flower look like a masterpiece!

Yard was flooded after work, so here's the shot from the porch. There must be 200 flowers on my cukes. The next 3 weeks are going to be fun!

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...ons69/jun1.jpg

I tried to zoom in a little. Minimal bugs, no rabbits, really not much damage other than the overly wet soil. I figured fungi and mold would be rampant, but KOW, it's alright so far.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...ons69/jun2.jpg

The first tomato picked yesterday. Should be fully red in the next couple of days. Gotten several dozen Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes so far, also.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...ons69/jun3.jpg

Here's a shot of my gauge. It was reset by my neighbor's kid on 5/11/09.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...ons69/jun4.jpg

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Great looking garden! I can't believe all the rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Love the tread! Thinking I might start a garden too!

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I'm still waiting for sunshine and warmth. We are projected to have two days, then back to cool and cloudy. My garden is in slow motion. :(

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Got lucky as shite today... I was driving home down the back roads today and saw a whole flat of plants fly off the back of a truck way up ahead. The guy never stopped so I pulled over and noticed they were all hot banana pepper plants and 8 squash plants! Jackpot! I threw them in the truck and headed home to throw them in the garden. :D

After planting them I grabbed the camera so I could post some updated photos.

Purple Peppers are starting to get some size to them.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...Picture291.jpg

And the poblano peppers are growing nicely also.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...Picture293.jpg

Starting to get some tomatoes.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...Picture294.jpg

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My cherry bomb peppers are growing so slow.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...Picture295.jpg

Some of my asparagus ferns.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...Picture296.jpg

Still getting lots of spears popping up.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...Picture300.jpg

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Bump for the garden photos. Let's see some updated pictures. :hf

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That is a fine plot of land!

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The soil here is amazing. The whole neighborhood used to be a vinyard and in the fields some of the old vines are slowly growing back. I'm thinking about digging a few up and planting them along my white fence there.

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Looks like it has great drainage and just enough red (iron) clay, a good match for top mulch.:)

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We just harvested all the radishes and gave the lettuce a complete cut and got WAY too much lettuce and radishes. My cherry tomato plant disappeared into the ground and I got my record tying gopher a day late. The sun has been out so maybe we'll start getting some squash. We need to figure out what to replant in the radish row now.

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Man that's terrible about the gopher. I have been seeing a lot of deer tracks in my garden but haven't noticed any damage yet. I may have to fence the garden in before it's too late.

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DEER! Quick! They can reduce your garden suddenly to nubs in one night. I'm surprised you saw tracks and no damage. They don't spare me. Every year before this one they have gotten to the grapes and ate every leaf and shoot off the plants. They grow back weaker. This year the dogs have been keeping the deer away.

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Too bad garden season and deer season dont happen at the same time. I would like to show them my appreciation for tromping around in my garden. :D

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Update.
The terracotta boxes are going to get screen put under them so I can plant some artichokes.
http://130.94.224.229/share/garden09e.jpg
There seems to always be some orchid blooming.
http://130.94.224.229/share/garden09f.jpg

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Lance, things are coming along nicely. I am interested in those terra cotta boxes. Where would one get such an item and how much? Thanks.

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Sorry Richard, I don't know. They came with the house 10 years ago and they looked old then. Those four were unused at the time and there are 10 more in a different area with roses in them. you might look in a decorative stonework place.

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Some awesome pic's in this thread!

Sledn and I used to plant bigger gardens every year. Then stopped.

This year, we planted a small garden. Our 6 year old, really wanted one.

2 Big Boy tomato plants
2 green bean plants
2 peanut plants
6 strawberry plants
4 pepper plants. Wes picked em out, so hot peppers I am sure.
2 cilantro

We have already picked 5 or 6 green beans. There are 3 or 4 more out there ready now.

The peanut plants were eaten up by some varmit.

Tomato plants are growing nicely as are the strawberries. Pepper plants are getting there.

Lil Sledn loves it. He goes outside every morning to see what's new.

I just did the weeding tonight, so I will take some pics and add them in the morning.

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Very nice garden Lance! :tu Never done artichokes before so I'm really looking forward to learning this process and seeing how yours grow.

Mrsledn- Varmits! Arrrrrrrg! :D Looking foward to seeing your pictures.

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Okay, so it's a HOT one out there already. But I took some pictures.

Temp on the deck at 9:30am. And yes, it's friggin hot out there...
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05036.jpg

Nothing too outstanding like some of your gardens. But for our little family of three, this should be good. It was a challenage for me having a garden this small since Sledn and I had some huge gardens in the past.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05037.jpg

One of our strawberries that are changing color already.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05038.jpg

A couple tomatoes. Still babies.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05039.jpg

Green Beans are growing really well. Just wish there were more of them.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05040.jpg

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Post number 2... LOL

The Peanut plants that some varmit chewed up. Although there was a sign of hope this morning. Some flowers are blossoming on one of them.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05041.jpg

New flower garden Sledn and I put in this year.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05042.jpg

Another new, little, area we put in this year. Hummingbirds and butterflies like it.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05046.jpg

View of the deck all decked out... It's time to cut the grass too!
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05044.jpg

The famous gazebo that was crushed in the winter from the heavy snow. Wes was able to fix it. Great thing! So many memories of all the BOTL and SOTL throughout the years having a great time under there.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC05047.jpg

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Great pictures Cathy. Thanks for sharing. :tu

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Man, I love this thread! Awesome job out there, folks. Gardening is time consuming, but the benefits are so much greater.

Bandwidth be damned, here goes some shots from this morning. I'm off today and was doing some yard work and kept thinking, this would make a pretty pic, so inside to grab the camera.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g1.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g2.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g3.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g4.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g5.jpg

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http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g6.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/g7.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/f1.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/f2.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/f3.jpg

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http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/f4.jpg

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...irons69/f5.jpg

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Thanks Harold.

Jamie, Awesome shots!

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Looking at that picture.... I can smell the Magnolia flower all the way up here! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. :)

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Growing like crazy with all the rain!

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Very nice!

I hear it's supposed to be "knee high by the 4th of July." The corn across the street from us is already waist high! Must be a good year.

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wow guys that is some nice plants. the only thing im growning is 1 roma and 1 mint plant. next up is maybe 1 bell pepper and a cucumber. only my girl and i so we dont need much and the mint is for mojitos duh:r i keep them in pots so i can put them out and bring them in

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Shoot some photos when you get the chance. It's only two of us in my family but I'm just an extremist. :)

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Yup- much higher than that. But, was planted earlier than many other fields I've seen. Next pic I'll hafta have Mrs hotreds stand in the field for some perspective.

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Gotta start 'em young...
http://130.94.224.229/share/helper.jpg
3 years old.
http://130.94.224.229/share/lilgardener.jpg

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Lance, those pics are too CUTE! My 6 year old loves "his" garden so much!

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Getting some nice blooms on our daylilies. Doesn't quite qualify as "gardening," since I haven't done anything to these plants since putting the bulbs in the ground a few years ago. But that's my kind of gardening!

A Chicago Apache:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...cagoApache.jpg

And two unknown varieties (I think the first might be a Holy Moses.)
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...ei/NotSure.jpg

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i.../Swordlily.jpg

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Nice, Gerard. And, yes, you're right. Putting bulbs in the ground a few years ago is not gardening. This is your one pass. Now go get them hands dirty.

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Nice flowers Gerard :tu

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Did a little weeding in the garden yesterday evening after work. Looks like I may be picking a boat load of jalepenos and hot banana peppers by the weekend. A few more asparagus spears have come up while some have wilted and died before even turning into ferns. Also noticed three beef steak tomatoes that may turn red by the weekend.

Anyone got any updates?