tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post2825644053210493839..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: I Wanted to Smack that Caledonian BastardBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-61328263436852860572013-05-10T19:08:37.061-04:002013-05-10T19:08:37.061-04:00Native Americans used chickweed as a poultice for...Native Americans used chickweed as a poultice for treating abscesses, boils and cuts. So it is quite a useful plant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-69904439688059998552013-05-08T19:14:49.243-04:002013-05-08T19:14:49.243-04:00Insecticides and beekeepers' own terrible mana...<i>Insecticides and beekeepers' own terrible management practices are what's killing the bees (but don't tell the beekeepers that, they get all mad). Often they're putting insecticides in the hives (to kill mites) and are then surprised it kills the bees. Golly, really?</i><br /><br />Trucking hives around like furniture isn't good for the bees? WHODATHUNKIT?!?!?<br /><br /><i>Oh, and I live in "The Grass Seed Capital Of The World". Allergy season sucks.</i><br /><br />Have you got a neti pot?Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-89517462622413076832013-05-08T18:29:19.880-04:002013-05-08T18:29:19.880-04:00Oh, and I live in "The Grass Seed Capital Of ...Oh, and I live in <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/valleyfieldcrops/grass-seed" rel="nofollow">"The Grass Seed Capital Of The World"</a>. Allergy season <i>sucks</i>.OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-8989923300558790632013-05-08T18:27:25.328-04:002013-05-08T18:27:25.328-04:00Insecticides and beekeepers' own terrible mana...Insecticides and beekeepers' own terrible management practices are what's killing the bees (but don't tell the beekeepers that, they get all mad). Often they're putting insecticides <i>in the hives</i> (to kill mites) and are then surprised it kills the bees. Golly, really?<br /><br />Anyway the whole idea of the "American Lawn" sickens me. Do everything you can to grow grass, now cut it and throw it away. Continue, ad infinitum. Awful.OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-29445046419723909712013-05-08T13:04:35.361-04:002013-05-08T13:04:35.361-04:00I hate herbicide use on principle....I think it is...I hate herbicide use on principle....I think it is killing bees or weakening them. As for dandelions, they are perrenials....and come up in most of the same places each year in my yard even tho' I try to pull the roots.<br /><br />I pull them by hand, year after year, to feed to my geese...who certainly agree they are delicious. But I am considering a dandelion flower MEAD...I've heard of it being made to wine, so why not mead?<br /><br />And mixing clover flowers, those sweet red or white edible things in might be inspiration, too!Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.herlanderwalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-46934171695256312132013-05-08T09:16:07.594-04:002013-05-08T09:16:07.594-04:00If it weren't for dandelions and clover, Theda...If it weren't for dandelions and clover, Theda would have no ground cover in her backyard at all.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-64678789483435968932013-05-08T02:26:17.560-04:002013-05-08T02:26:17.560-04:00Have a care Sir, you insult the Teevee version of ...Have a care Sir, you insult the Teevee version of our good friands the Australians. But go ahead, off the fake Scot.<br />Hamish Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18079552635307235197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-66352695835556363062013-05-07T20:49:26.938-04:002013-05-07T20:49:26.938-04:00Which honestly isn't as bad as the "accen...Which honestly isn't as bad as the "accent" of the voiceover in the Outback Steakhouse commercials. What the HELL is that? It sounds like a guy with a mouthfull of marbles and cotton balls trying to spit out the cotton balls and keep the marbles in place...<br />mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com