Around the garden

I feel bad for you, jen. I write this because when I was little, I fell into a ditch full of stinging nettles. I can't remember it, but I have been told about it. I also got hives as an older child, after rolling about on the grass. I remember that very clearly.

You'll heal, though, jen! Still, nettles are nasty.

As a kid hanging about with some boys, I tried to join in peeing on wasps nest. Guess who was the only person stung down there.

My mum was not impressed that, somehow, a wasp had sneaked under my pants, wandered along then stung me.

But I didn't want a sore bottom too 

I always smile when you mention being a girl scout. I just know you were intensive.  

Anyone got a tuff shed or a sheshed in your backyard?

Hi Cherry,  A sheshed is like a man cave but for women. Of course since it is for women, it looks much nicer depending on how the women decorate it. You can make it your home office, a place to relax, a place to get away from the house...

A tuff shed is where you store your gardening stuffs.

I am thinking about gardening once the new place is done, planting vegetables and stuffs... my husband thinks I should have a tuffshed to store the gardening stuffs. He does not want to store them in the garage. The shed is good because it can be right there by the garden so it will be easy for me to access all the tools.

The sheshed is like a trend now. Both of my sisters have one. When their friends visit, they sit in the sheshed looking out to the yard whil having snack, away from the main house. I think it's cool. I might have one for myself, not too large, 300sft will do it.

I have known people who have upmarket Wendy houses for their children. A larger one of these would, and do, fit well for a sheshed. We have a shed for tools but it's not very tuff lol.

I can imagine - far too cold People do grow them in greenhouses here but it is far too cold and poor light for good bananas so they never ripen so no point, at least to me.

I love your garden photos, jen.

Our redbud still has some leaves that didn't completely die... not many.. like a handful lol so, maybe it will come back okay enough next year. Around the corner, I saw another redbud where half the tree seems to have died off similarly. I guess it was just way too much rain in our area recently, so it wasn't just our tree that "drowned." It should do better from now on because we raised it higher. I wish I could fast-forward to spring to see if it will make it!

I'm a little sad today. One of my banana trees came down in a storm while I was away and all the bananas are gone. At least some animals got to enjoy them.

Cherry, not really, when they get old and there is a large bunch on them, they can actually snap in a big wind storm. In fact i had a second tree start to go so I cut of the bunch and it is ripening on my lanai.


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The flower is still good and edible Annie.