Top 10 Plants You Can't Kill

Vlad,

I thought I was the only one with a turkey problem eating the sedum! BTW rottlady, these are wild turkeys =)

Herds of goats are used to clear brush in California. It works very well because they eat just about everything in front of them.

I didn't know about turkeys (and we have a few wild ones around) and sedum. Mostly, my war is with the squirrels, and I love watching them - just like that dog in "Up" - I get easily distracted by their antics.

Next spring, we are putting in rose bushes in front - those hardy ones called "Knock-out". Not my favorite, but I can't see putting in the time for others. When we first came here, I tried to grow my miniatures, but they all croaked. I love the roses that still have a true rose smell. I also love the lavender ones, like Crystal Chalice, but I was told our rabbits would eat those in a flash.

Hi RBW,

I have lots of Roses, and yes I prefer the fragrant ones. It does take a little time to prune them but it is well worth the effort as they supply me with multiple blooms and cut flowers all Summer and into the Fall. I usually do a hard prune on them in early Spring and just deadhead them throughout Summer and the blooms just keep coming until cold weather sets in.

You seem to have lots of critters assisting you, I mean between the rabbits and the squirrels, LOL. There are lots of squirrels around my neighborhood, and they spend lots of time in my yard because of my walnut tree, and they are having a field day with it. I manage to get a few stored away as they fall to the ground, but right now the squirrels are winning. So far they are not bothering anything but my walnuts. I have pears, apples, figs and a well stocked garden so I guess if it wasn't for the walnuts they would just partake of some of the other choices so I am thankful that the walnuts keeps them happy and mostly away from everything else?

Thank you, Peace. Yes, we have a lot of critters, and we have hickory trees that I would hope would keep them happy. I'm think of getting bowls of peanuts out there as a bribe. My son has three dogs and we are going to share the vegetable gardening next year. They will take over the tomato crop and I will try a few more pepper varieties. We are on the edge of a forest, so no dogs will do the job here (besides, we are cat people).

We are looking at apple trees for the front of the house, maybe a good Georgia Peach! As we tame the back yard (sloped, difficult to till at our age; so we are going to do carpets of wild flowers next year and increase or veggie garden to 18 sq. ft.

The plant that will not die for me: Jalapeño pepper plant. And the yield is enough to feed our neighborhood.

Raisedbywolves:

funny you would mention peppers. The only plant currently alive in my veg garden is habanero chilis.

Maybe we humans are the only animals who thrive on salsa? Seriously, I could make salsa for all of Georgia, if and only if those friggin' squirrels would stop stealing my tomatoes.

I was not aware that squirrels ate tomatoes.

LOL, nor was I, ww. They certainly didn't in CA, but these little buggers went for them like manna. My friend in Knoxville had to get off the phone the other day because they were eating her heirlooms! I wish they'd eat just one jalapeño!

I mentioned it above, gm. We have it here in Georgia and I've seen it in TN as well. So far, none in our yards, but we do a walk in the spring to see if any has creeped in.

What ever you do, do not cut it and then throw it on the ground, it will just start growing there, put it in a plastic bag and then throw it into a dumpster, it's the only way to get rid of it.

Peace Wolf.

Thanks for the tip, gmross. If I see any, I will do so. Right now, I'm picking the last of the tomatoes - green and trying an old (1963 edition) Betty Crocker recipe for fried green tomatoes - my first time. I'm about to put the plants into the composter and my son-in-law and I are planning our gardens for next year.

I also found out that we need to prune our Crepe Myrtle in December, not in Feb, as I was told by a Home Depot Garden specialist!

Wolves, I love FGT, they're great.

Well, it's not something we ordinarily made when I was gardening in California - I always had ripe fruit/veggies until about THanksgiving. So, this is a change. Everything is a change here in Georgia, like the squirrels loving tomatoes! I'll let you know. And thank you again for the Kudzu tip. Once again, we walked our trees in the back and found none at all. :-)

Best of luck Wolves, enjoy the tomatoes.

Thank you, gm.

And thank you, Rottlady, for posting the seed. (I love Rottweilers, BTW.)

My bio-dad had a wonderful rottie named Hannah. She really took to me and followed me around his house whenever I visited. She was a very sweet well-mannered lady.

We just adopted kittehs - two litter mates, and they are the joy of our life - well, that and gardening...