Re: Weeds, grass, and the like

Agree, Jesse, that weed eater is a gem. I think the real reason it is so much better than previous generation electrical garden stuff is the advance in battery technology that has [finally] begun to occur. The battery is both long lasting and powerful enough to crank out high RPM over an extended period of time. This was not possible 10 years ago.


On Monday, August 16, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:

By the way Jim (and any of you who might be interested...) I just LOVE
my Black and Decker Weed Eater that you recommended. I've quit tilling
all over the place...and now I'm weed-eating and edging everything on
the place. My husband, of course, was thrilled. It is not so heavy that
it kills my back, I don't have to keep "bumping" it to feed out the
cord, it does it automatically and I should have bought one of these a
long, long time ago!!


As for your bumble bee visitor...we've had a lot of those too...all over
my giant sunflowers, squash and pumpkins. I LOVE those little guys.



james singer <jsinger@igc.org> wrote:
Spent a large part of the weekend potting up seedlings and
cuttings--and applying RoundUp to various plants that all this wet
weather has encouraged. Grass is way to wet to cut and by next weekend
it will likely be 2 feet tall. Two real pleasures, however. First, one
of the cactus cuttings I potted in the last couple of weeks is
blooming. A small yellow flower on one of the whortleberries, which
means I'm going to taste that fruit before long [it's supposed to be
very good, but we're all adults here and know that enthusiasts tend to
lie]. Second, when I was heading out with the weedeater this morning to
rescue the Buddha's hand citron from the weeds, I had to nearly wade
through a stand of Mexican petunias [Ruellia brittoniana or something
like that] and just as I approached it, I saw a bumblebee enter one of
the Ruellia's flowers and completely disappear down the flower's
throat. Wish I'd had my camera rather than my weedeater. With
pollinators like that, it's no wonder these things seed themselves
around.

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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