Filed under: Cash for Grass | Tags: butterfly, Butterfly Encounters, cash, cold, front, germinate, grass, kids, milkweed, rain, refrigerator, seeds
I did plant the five beautiful types of milkweed seeds we ordered from Butterfly Encounters. Strangely, the kids did not volunteer to go out in the backyard in the rain to help me. The instructions say the seeds need to sit in a cold, moist environment for several weeks before they will germinate. This being Central California, we rarely get “weeks” of cold weather, so either I plant them now or I will have to follow the “alternate instructions” and put them in bags of sand in the refigerator for a few weeks. I’m not sure the last idea would go over well with Jennifer, and I think I would have a tough time hiding a half-dozen bags of sand and seeds in the refrigerator without her noticing.
Milkweed Seeds Planted
Filed under: Cash for Grass | Tags: butterfly, cash, grass, habitat, lawn, neighbor, pickaxe, property, roots
There is a strip of lawn between my driveway and my next-door neighbor’s that is about 12 feet wide. While working with a pickaxe on the grass removal in the main part of my lawn, which is getting increasingly difficult due to the many thick roots as I get nearer the tree in the middle of the yard, my neighbor came out to see what I was up to and to suggest that I stop swearing loudly in front of the neighborhood children. I explained the project, and suggested that when I get to the driveway strip I could take out the whole strip out between our driveways instead of just my half, and include it all in the project, if he would chip in for the additional rock.
He is “thinking about it”, which I interpret as wondering if it is safe to say “no way” directly to a mentally defective neighbor who is swinging a pickaxe around while ranting about accursed butterfly habitats.
