Garden Horror Stories 👻🎃 | 113

To celebrate the end of spooky season, we asked our listeners to share their garden horror stories, and you delivered big time! Join us to hear their stories, as well as a few of our own.
Show notes | Episode 113 | 11-2-2024
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Watch our cheeky Halloween videos,
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Halloween at the Garden Center | What would Dracula Plant?, • Halloween at the Garde...
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[@pc0086]

Good morning Rick and Stacey, having a cup of coffee in hands and watching my favorite show is already my Saturday routine.

[@rickvuyst]

Good morning!

[@wendywelsh2737]

What great fun! Absolutely loved Stacey’s poem especially the ending. And that poison ivy story oh my!

[@pwcolorchoice]

So glad you enjoyed this episode! 🤗❤

[@GardenDoodles]

Great episode! Hope this will be an annual Halloween horror story thing. Funny, scary stuff and relatable.

[@pwcolorchoice]

Yay! So glad you enjoyed this episode, we had so much fun reading all of the stories 😄🤗

[@heatherderganc5984]

Love the Lim-o-Rick! 😂 It sounds like the “Burbs”! Our favorite movie for this time of year. And…it’s the snakes!!! 🐍😱 Thank you for annnother entertaining and informative show! 🎃

[@pwcolorchoice]

The Burbs - a classic! I think Tom Hanks would approve of the Lim-A-Rick this week 😂 Thanks so much for watching, friend! 🖤

[@myorganicterracegarden7328]

1 like 👍 very nice sharing very nice video 😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

[@karenchisholm623]

Great show!!

[@pwcolorchoice]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@Debbie-ni8bc]

Thanks for a good show! I enjoyed Corey’s story - I knew from his videos that he’s a big proven winners fan and now I know he also watches your show. I always find it comforting to know that even the professionals are learning from each other. 😊

[@pwcolorchoice]

We loved Corey's story, it was so funny! Totally agree that it's wonderful we can all keep learning from each other! 🥰🤗

[@josweatt898]

Loved your Gardeners Nightmare Stacy! Says it all.

[@pwcolorchoice]

So glad you enjoyed it! 😄🤗

[@sydneykasmar]

What a wonderful treat 🍭 on this post-Halloween Saturday. Enjoy your videos.

[@pwcolorchoice]

Yay! Thank you so much! 🤗🥰🎃

[@tholiman1911]

LONG TIME gardener in Texas!! If you get into poison ivy, scrub the spot with comet and then a good washing of Dawn dishwashing liquid. No Breakout!! 😍🙌🙌

[@sydneykasmar]

Do you mean scrubbing your skin with Comet?

[@dustyflats3832]

😱VOLES😱. Never seen one my whole life and spotted them last winter and soon realized they ate many spring bulbs. We are on the hunt this winter! Garbage-Yes! Totally relate. There were dumps years ago it’s just some were too lazy to take it there. We don’t dare go barefoot. I’m countering it by letting arborists dump loads of wood chips. Invasives-Yes. Buckthorn, bind weed, sand burrs, nettles, Canadian thistles And the neighbor has a black walnut tree 🤬. I also have neighbors that do nothing about these problems on their acreage. I use a systemic brush killer liquid and it works great. Thankfully most of these problems are in limited areas. Great show-Enjoyed it! We have to fence everything or we would have nothing. Too much cost to spray and too much rain this year anyways. The deer still nip at hydrangeas and mock orange as they are not picky. It’s hard to enjoy landscaping with barriers.

[@pwcolorchoice]

That's awesome that you're adding the wood chips and that you're working to get rid of those invasives! Ugh, yes barriers and fencing aren't always ideal but can be necessary to keep the pesty deer out!

[@richbishop7896]

I had a large garter snake slither by me while out pulling some weeds in my garden years ago. It surprised me more than scared me. Never seen him since. Love your show! Bonny

[@pwcolorchoice]

They can be fun to see!🐍😄

[@emkn1479]

Oh those animals…we have been specifically buying evergreens that deer won’t eat in winter. We’ve been fine for several years and the trees have grown. This year, the bucks found them, and ripped them to shreds with their antlers 😫😫😫 there really is no winning. Everything has to be protected behind fencing. RE: raccoons digging…that happens when we use organic granulated fertilizers. Such a pain. And we always forget from year to year 🤦‍♀️

[@dustyflats3832]

Hi emkn! I remember seeing comments from you somewhere and I think you are around MN? Or nearby as it sounds like we have same issues with wildlife. Yes about organic fertilizers drawing in nocturnal animals! I’ve realized I will have to stop using fish fertilizer. And we have to fence everything and it’s difficult to totally enjoy the view, but we’d have nothing to look at if we didn’t.

[@pwcolorchoice]

Ugh, of course, they can be so annoying! 😠🦌 That's a good point - the organic fertilizers can sometimes attract skunks and raccoons.

[@angelaanderson5360]

Good show guys.

[@pwcolorchoice]

So glad you enjoyed it! 🎃😄

[@mitzi605]

That was fun!

[@pwcolorchoice]

Thank you for watching! 👻🖤

[@paulababb7362]

On the subject of poison ivy, my husband always said he didn't get poison ivy. He volunteered to pull some out of my rose garden and got scratched by thorns. That time he got a real dose of it all over his arms. Poor guy

[@pwcolorchoice]

Oh no! It's never fun to get that rash 😖

[@user-zh7zi1yx3g]

Well that was super fun and funny!

[@pwcolorchoice]

So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! 🤗

[@8helenjhouston8]

Great Lim-a-Rick and poem today!!! You guys are sooo creative. I can’t wait to check out those Haunted videos!

[@pwcolorchoice]

Thanks so much, friend! We like to have fun haha 😄❤

[@jeanniecollier6763]

Stacy, I loved your poem. So many familiar horror stories. Tell your viewers to please be careful removing landscape fabric because snakes love the environment below it.

[@pwcolorchoice]

That's a good point! Thank you for sharing that and for watching our video ☺

[@rootsshootsgardenboots]

That was fun. The poems were great. 😊

[@pwcolorchoice]

Thanks so much! 🥰🤗

[@myorganicterracegarden7328]

Hallo happy halloween 🎃🎃🎃😊

[@pwcolorchoice]

Happy Halloween! 🎃

[@peachesandsugar1]

I have a beaver that cut down my newly planted Golden Delicious apple tree, every year it grows back and every year the beaver cuts it down, 20 years later it is the same size it was when I planted it.

[@pwcolorchoice]

Haha, wow! The most determined apple tree and beaver co-existing 😆🍏🦫

[@peachesandsugar1]

@@pwcolorchoice It works for both of them but not for me, I don't get any apples. LOL.

[@MourningDove-bn4dk]

I planted four powis castle artemisia in my backyard last year. During the winter season of this year, something kept pulling a plant out of the ground. I would put it back in the ground, and I would find it a few days later popped out of the ground. Over and over. When one plant died, then the next one kept popping up until it died. Suffice to say, all of the artemisia died. I never found out what did that, and it never happened to any other plant. I never thought that it could have been raccoons.

[@pwcolorchoice]

It certainly could have been raccoons! 🦝

[@donnajohnson3334]

I saw a gorgeous birdbath covered in broken plates. We moved to the country and found countless shattered windsheilds where they target practiced like mad.

[@pwcolorchoice]

Oh gosh! Sounds like you have to be careful digging in the dirt around there!

[@Flower_hoarder]

🎃🕸️🕷️

[@pwcolorchoice]

👻🎃🖤

[@Barbie_jb]

What happens if you burn poison ivy?

[@jeanniecollier6763]

It can cause a rash, breathing problems as well as in rare cases death due o the poison ivy getting into the lungs.

[@pwcolorchoice]

Yes - as @jeanniecollier6763 mentioned, the urushiol from the poison ivy gets into the smoke and people can get the rash over their entire exposed body and cause a variety of issues for breathing and lungs.