Originally Posted by SuZQ
My exciting gardening moment yesterday was when I went out to water and discovered they'd been visited by a bear as evidenced by two lovely piles of bear "scat" and an overturned composter.
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Originally Posted by BamaMama
Steve,

My tomatoes are growing but just before they are ready to pick, a bird gets to them before me. Giant hunks are taken away.
That would make me SO MAD!

Tomatoes are frustrating. There's so much time elapses between the first flower and the first bite of ripe fruit. So many things that can go wrong. I had bad luck with blossom end rot for two years and then the blight last year. This year's crop was unexpected to say the least, considering the drought.

Yeah, Dean's looking mighty and unstoppable. Last year, remember we dodged all the bullets, with very few powerful Atlantic storms and none of them hitting the mainland. The Global Warming Fear is upon me! Every storm that comes along, I'm thinking "OMG it's going to be SO BIG because of GW!" Pathetic, eh?

Steve
Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
(Native American prayer)