Garden. What do you think? (No gardening desires required)

Yeah, all the rain makes our soil soft, it's good for bog gardens too!

yeah... about the venison...

we have that no shooting (gun or arrow) within 500 ft of a dwelling law.
i've no clue how far 500 ft is! but i suspect our nearest neighbor (though we can't see their house) is within that range.
nor do we have guns or bows.

we get venison the old fashioned way. buy it from the son of our old friends Joe and Cheryl.

man! that's gotta be a LOT of rain!

i think we average 40-some inches annually, but still rock. 1 1/2 inches of gravelly dirt and then 2-3 inches of rocky dirt and then shale. *shrugs*

Miri.... what's a bog garden? lol

500 feet is roughly the distance between the third-level fans behind one football field end zone to the third-level fans behind the other end zone. (360 feet for football field. 20 feet per end zone. Plus they have a few yards between the end zones and the seats.)

So, if you can fit a professional football field in your back yard, you don't have to pay the deer. lol

This about says it all, in rains on average once every 3 days in the UK. Lol

BBC - GCSE Bitesize: UK climate



This is a proper bog garden, whereas my back garden is covered in grass and moss. Lol

Bog garden | Wild About Gardens

you can grow potatoes??

our "soil" is rock. :/
i know, a raised bed, etc., but i think you know me well enough not to expect that of me.

Yes, this
came to mind too. With two trees, animals, grasses, adam and eve too-).

You have a BACKyard too?
LOL

Our in-the-country park is across the main street from our stadiums. That's where we go for that country feeling you have for a dog walk. (Where we take the teddy bears. lol)

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We have a park about a block from us, but it's so citified there is no doubt you're still in the city anywhere in it. That's our destination now for John's exercise-walks.

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(I'm thinking he's taking a picture of what we're looking at, not a picture of me looking at what we're looking at. lol)

do you think squirrels really are planning a world take-over? i bet they wrote this! ---


Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. I've noticed that no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists or alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic mistakes every single time. With that in mind, allow me to present...


The Top 100 Things I'd Do
If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord



Peter's Evil Overlord List

Where I live now (Southern Saskatchewan), "garden" means smallish trees, grass, with vegetables and flowers in summer. I grew up near Victoria, BC, and fondly remember a much wider variety of plants that flourish there. Now I make do with sour cherries, berry bushes, and whatever veggies I can manage to keep irrigated. I will say that home-grown tomatoes and carrots taste far better than commercially-grown.

To me, gardening includes animals as well as plants. If I had the time and space, I'd have sheep clipping the greensward, orchards with bee hives, rabbits and chickens scratching about, and a couple of large dogs to keep the coyotes away. I'd encourage the birds and insects with perennial flowers and indigenous fruits, and probably do all this in a climate where I could grow sweet cherries and blackberries.

man! that's gotta be a LOT of rain!

i think we average 40-some inches annually, but still rock. 1 1/2 inches of gravelly dirt and then 2-3 inches of rocky dirt and then shale. *shrugs*

Miri.... what's a bog garden? lol

can you frame it in some other sports metaphor?

i detest football. :/
dad always had it on (he played in high school and college). the sound of it makes me cringe.
but i can tell you who was the quarterback for every pro team in the seventies.

In the UK? A good place to find 4000 year old men. lol

Ooh you have slides and things to climb on. Yippee...


The back garden isn't big, but between the front and back garden all that mowing,
hedge cutting, weeding, chasing squirrels. I look like an amazon by the end of summer.

Oh and then there is the side hedge as well. The bit the car went into in 2015!

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That took a while to sink in!

We did peat bog man at School.

How to have a maintenance free yard:

1. Give away the hedges on Freecycle. (People will come and pull them out for you, if you give them away.)
2. Try and see if you can give away the grass too.
3. Seed the yard with native wild flowers.

Oh, and why is there both a pole and a car in your yard? You don't need both. I'd get rid of the car, personally. lol

(I remember the story. Didn't know you back then, but I remember the story.)