The Mosquitoes love the rain.

The plastic bag You can see is covering the handle on my old lawn mower, mostly because the birds ten to poop on it.

When I looked at the weather sites yesterday they said really warm all next week with almost only sunshine, today they say almost no sunshine and quite a lot of rain 🙂 🙂 🙂 So Your guess to how it will be is as good as mine 🙂 I won’t mind some rain just as long as it doesn’t continue for too long plus the farmers need it so at least they will be really happy when it starts to fall 🙂

The last peat in the yellow plastic bag was so dry that this rain really helped 🙂

It is hard to catch the rain drops when taking photos.

Today they were almost right though, they guessed cloudy all day but no rain. It has been cloudy all day but just before I arrived here at home after work the clouds opened up and the rain started to pour down. My water barrels that were almost empty are now three quarters full. The ground here is still very wet so we here really don’t need the rain but it is nice to see that the barrels are full of water again.

Buds on the Amur grape vine.

Can’t remember the name on this weed but it does look harmless enough. It isn’t though because it becomes so dense that nothing else can grow up from the ground. Really good to stop water evaporating from the ground though, never dry beneath it.

The rain however stopped us from taking a walk and now there are so many mosquitoes flying around that it’s a bit nasty to have walks. Well they are guessing we’ll have sunshine and hot weather tomorrow again so we’ll just take an extra long morning walk before it gets too hot. This rain has unfortunately brought out both slugs and snails so some of my sowings (in containers) has been eaten. Tomorrow I’ll see if anything can be saved.

     

Alma hadn’t escaped the dog yard today either 🙂 This morning I took all small plastic bottles I could find here at home and put dog treats in them, I tried it with Malkolm at first and when he saw what I did to get those treats out he understood it. I don’t think Alma has a clue still because some of those bottles were heavily chewed so that the treats could come out 🙂 🙂 🙂 Well at least she has been busy 🙂

This container has not been visited by slug or snails so I moved it temporarily to a table on the other side of the cottage.The biggest leafs to the right are from Morning glories, beside them are Hollyhocks. Then comes False Dragonheads followed by Alpine Aster and Siberian Larkspur.
My little Red oak, it grows so slow here. I need to remove the vegetation around it so that it gets some sunshine.
So far only columbines and Giant Sequoia seeds have germinated in this container. Still no Chinese dogwood, Dawn redwood, Tulip tree or Sea kale. This one did have a small slug in it so that container has also been temporarily moved.

It is time to go out to check where I can place my Pawpaw seedlings so that the slugs and snails at least have a harder time to reach them. I’ll do it quickly because those mosquitoes mean business when they start arriving, Nova is already scratching herself badly, the other two have only been outside when they really needed to.

Have a great day!

6 responses to “The Mosquitoes love the rain.”

  1. inspiredbyo Avatar
    inspiredbyo

    Hello, R C Olof. I am happy to have found you.
    This is John Harper from Post.
    Best to you in the rain. Say hello to Alma.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi John!
      Welcome 🙂

      It was really nice and it cooled down the air so I slept like a baby last night 🙂 well until someone woke me up because he needed to go outside 🙂 🙂
      She says hi back 🙂

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  2. ppekka24 Avatar
    ppekka24

    Do you end up giving away some of your seedlings? I don’t see how you would have room to plant all those!

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi ppekka!

      If they survive and anyone wants them I sure do. Still most people wants a golf green lawn so few wants anything.
      That’s the huge problem, where to plant them otherwise? Well that’s why I so often tries plants that are on the border to what they can take climatewise 🙂 🙂 🙂 That’s trickier now days when it is getting warmer though 🙂 🙂

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  3. Caryn O'Keefe Avatar
    Caryn O’Keefe

    Where are you going to put all those big trees or are you going to take up bonsai? A bonsai giant sequoia would be interestingly ironic. 🙂 A bonsai tulip tree would be cool, too, as long as it was big enough to support the leaves and flowers. It would be nice to be able to see the whole tulip tree in flower without having to climb to the roof of the house or stand on an adjacent hilltop.

    Pretty neat trick with the small bottles of treats. I’ll have to try it. Piki is smart enough to figure out the trick, I think, but Rocky is no nonsense and he’d just chew it open.

    The mosquitoes here are not too bad yet. The little midge things that don’t bite but like to hang around one’s face are annoyingly thick in the air. I was giving serious thought to acquiring a beekeeper’s hat and veil.

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    1. Christer. Avatar
      Christer.

      Hi Caryn!

      Have no idea and a bonsai would survive five minutes with my care 🙂 🙂 🙂 Most of all this will most likely die because this is on the border to what they can take climatewise. Still some do survive and the best answer I can give is I have no idea 🙂 🙂 🙂
      The thing with bonsai’s are that after time the leafs and flowers will shrink in size so when the tree is old enough it’ll get small leafs and tiny flowers and they will look adorable 🙂
      My brother has a tulip tree and it’s also on the edge of what it cane take there, so it’s more like a bush so the flowers comes in eye level more or less 🙂

      It did work pretty well and I’ll save those bottles that still can be filled so I can use them next week as well 🙂
      I can’t walk in the forest when the forest flies starts, so yes get a mosquito hat because it’ll save Your sanity 🙂 🙂 🙂

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