u/gimmethelulz

My husband didn't grow up camping and only had two dismal experiences from his youth to go off of. In recent years, my kid and I finally convinced him to give it another go and he's been enjoying it! Pic from our latest trip in western NC.

Any tips for making our campsite more comfortable? My idea of camping is from the 80s and I've been low key jealous of some of the site gadgets I've been seeing people with lol.

Found this southern leopard frog while doing some garden clean up today. I don't think he appreciated being disturbed lol

It seems like it shouldn't but Google Maps seems insistent lol

It's my first year dealing with this disaster. I'm out here every night with a headlight and garden scissors. These are invasive slugs that no one eats around here.

After picking around 4kg of these gigantic slugs in one night I no longer bother - too much trouble disposing of half a bucket of dead bodies. Now I'm just chopping them up...

I used to eat these berries right here (who washes alpine strawberries anyway?) but after seeing this slime party I just cannot enjoy them any more 🤢

EDIT: these are invasive species in most of Europe; Arion vulgaris (Spanish slugs). They do not have natural predators here.

• Please DON'T use SALT! It can damage your soil, harm beneficial organisms, and may affect plant growth for a loooong time. There are much better slug control methods that don't leave salt behind.

A few years ago we converted our side yard into a "Piedmont prairie". This year has really been testing it to its limits. We haven't had any real rainfall since early June and I haven't been doing any supplemental watering (though I think I'm going to break down this weekend and give them some soaker hose time). The bees using the mountain mint as beds is so cute to me🥺

I don't know if our calico gal approves 🤣🤣

I did not listen and the cat :(

Three years ago we hired a local landscaping company to install a native prairie in our side yard instead of the zoysia grass that was there.

Even with the bad drought we've had the past few weeks the prairie is looking great this season! The company came by a couple weeks ago for their quarterly check-in and they were really pleased with how established things are looking.

I had wanted to do something like this in our yard for years now but with my work schedule it was hard to do more than just a few patches of yard conversion on my own. I'm really happy we finally decided to hire a company to do it for us because I don't think we would've gotten as good of results solo!

I've been eyeing these for awhile and now they're on sale. I could see them either being delicious or terrible lol.

I've had this one in my garden for about five years now. I regularly have people asking me what it is when it's blooming🐝

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