What is in your backyard?

[SubmarineGirl]

Yea I agree pretty plantings too

 

[astrobud]

What's up Astrobud?

Not much, looking some info thought I'd sneak in a couple of posts

 

[WeedHopper]

Awesome

 

[oldfogey8]

Calla Lillies with one of my Christmas cacti

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Black walnuts. Anyone actually use them anymore? My tree has plenty

 

[boo]

I've got a dozen next to the stream at the cabin, hitting them with the mower provides a bit of action if dutch is on the wrong side of the discharge chute...I've beaned him a few times, he sees little humor in it...time for a snocaine hooter and then back to mowing...

 

[user 60606]

I don't think so, the hulls stain absolutely everything .. tree rats mess with them abit

 

[SubmarineGirl]

My grandma use to shell them and put them in her applesauce cake. It was good but her hands would be ink black for days

 

[boo]

I had a couple and their kid ask me if they could have my walnuts one year...I gladly said sure...they had an import pick up and was dragging the bumper leaving...they had smiles on their faces, I have to wonder how long it took them to jar them up...that's a lot of picking...

 

[kevinn]

Now its been 50-60 years ago, but my father in law use to drive up to house where there were black walnuts or hickory nuts. All 6 kids would jump out of the car with a sheet, collect as many as the could and jump back into the station wagon and take off.

 

[Hippie420]

Used to have a hickory nut tree in my back yard at the old digs. Loved the taste, but a lot of work for a little bitty nut.
Lots of fun to hit with a mower, like Boo says about walnuts.

 

[oldfogey8]

Used to have a hickory nut tree in my back yard at the old digs. Loved the taste, but a lot of work for a little bitty nut.
Lots of fun to hit with a mower, like Boo says about walnuts.

The hickory trees in the woods behind my house are dropping their nuts but the squirrels are chewing the husks off as quickly as they drop. I pick some up and put them under my feeders and they are gone in short order.

 

[oldfogey8]

Caty did what?

 

[RosterMan]

Have these all over my yard now

 

[oldfogey8]

Have these all over my yard now

I saw some a couple of years ago. They liked a baseball field near my house in particular.

They are some pretty big wasps.

 

[WeedHopper]

Those are Hornets. I have them every year at a certain time.

 

[pute]

Enough said

 

[RosterMan]

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Enough said

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Eggplant overboard.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

My cat Louie