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[Smitty-48]

Shit Smitty I do at least 12-20 hours of yardwork a week. If you ever need to consult me about lawn problems, I got you. The consulting fee would not cost you much either. I can lay sod, edge, mow, prune, bundle, and weedwhack better than the entire Yucatan pennisula. My lawn game is not second string.

It's not the lawn, I like working on the lawn, and so the lawn looks good, but we have actual gardens, I don't mean like vegetable gardens, I mean like landscaped manicured flower gardens, it's not that I don't know what to do, my mother-in-law is a big flower gardener, so she gives me all the advice, it's not advice I need, I just have a lot of flower gardens to tend, and even though I do garden, I don't do enough to keep them perfectly manicured, and yet, I'd prefer them to be perfectly manicured at all times, because I do like the gardens, it's just more gardens than I would prefer to tend all on my own, since my wife is not really into gardening.

[heydaralon]

Shit Smitty I do at least 12-20 hours of yardwork a week. If you ever need to consult me about lawn problems, I got you. The consulting fee would not cost you much either. I can lay sod, edge, mow, prune, bundle, and weedwhack better than the entire Yucatan pennisula. My lawn game is not second string.

It's not the lawn, I like working on the lawn, and so the lawn looks good, but we have actual gardens, I don't mean like vegetable gardens, I mean like landscaped manicured flower gardens, it's not that I don't know what to do, my mother-in-law is a big flower gardener, so she gives me all the advice, it's not advice I need, I just have a lot of flower gardens to tend, and even though I do garden, I don't do enough to keep them perfectly manicured, and yet, I'd prefer them to be perfectly manicured at all times, because I do like the gardens, it's just more gardens than I would prefer to tend all on my own, since my wife is not really into gardening.

I have planted quite a few flowers this summer at my parents' house, but I am not an expert on them at all. Does the Canadian winter kill all of them?

[Smitty-48]

It's all perennials, it all comes back in the spring, the flowers are all coordinated, so as one type of flower blooms out, another is blooming in its place.

It's not that it looks bad, like, guests who come over don't notice the tiny imperfections, but I notice, so I would pay a gardener to come in at intervals, just to make it perfect.

I do work on it, but there's nine seperate gardens, so I don't do enough to maintain perfection at all times.

[heydaralon]

It's all perennials, it all comes back in the spring, the flowers are all coordinated, so as one type of flower blooms out, another is blooming in its place.

It's not that it looks bad, like, guests who come over don't notice the tiny imperfections, but I notice, so I would pay a gardener to come in at intervals, just to make it perfect.

holy shit, you went Henry Ford and Frederick Taylor with your garden! Micromanaging plants and whatnot. What kinds of vegetables are you growing, if any?

[Smitty-48]

My wife is the vegetable gardener, she's got tomatoes, peppers, zuccini, cucumbers, all that sort of thing, but that doesn't actually require much tending, the flower gardens are more labour intensive, but she says "that's you're job", which, fair enough, but those duties don't preclude me from hiring an assistant.

[heydaralon]

How bad are the pests in Canada? In Florida, caterpillars and slugs will destroy any tomato plant that the heat doesn't. You said in another thread that Canada has a plague of mosquitoes. What about other nuisance insects and mollusks?

[Smitty-48]

Not too bad in terms of flower pests, all the different flowers do OK, I don't see any signs that anything is eating the flowers.

[heydaralon]

Not too bad in terms of flower pests, all the different flowers do OK, I don't see any signs that anything is eating the flowers.

If you have a bad mosquito problem there are plants you can buy that repel them. I was in Lowes the other day getting bricks and I saw these plants. They have a lemony fragrance that mosquitoes hate. Idk how well they work. Supposedly tobacco repels a lot insects too, though I don't think it would be very practical for a flower garden. I've read that rats hate tobacco too.

[Smitty-48]

Mosquitoes don't really bother me too much, I don't know what it is, could be tobacco, could just be that I don't taste good, maybe I'm just used to them, so I don't notice, but I don't get much mosquito action coming after me, they go for my wife like gangbusters, she could be getting swarmed, but I could be standing right next to her and not be bothered at all. I mean, round here, compared to the bush, there's fuck all mosquitoes, I don't get bugged by mosquitoes, until we get into the actual bush. What my wife thinks is "bad" mosquitoes, ain't nothing at all, she has no idea what bad mosquito bush is all about, she's never been there.

I'm mosquito hardened, I don't start feeling sorry for myself, until I get to mosquito hell, but when I do get there, I'll say "fuck this shit" and then soak myself in deet.

[heydaralon]

I don't know much about Canadian wildlife, though I did go to the Alberta side of Glacier National Park when I was a lot younger. This might be a dumb question, but do you encounter any moose or bears in your neighborhood? I don't know how widespread moose are in Canada or if they are anywhere near Toronto. Occasionally in Central Florida there will be a black bear or coyote roaming around in the neighborhood, and the residents will be a few dogs and cats lighter. In my old neighborhood I had an alligator chilling in my cul de sac, which was pretty cool.