Chocolate soil

stephenr

Mmmm chocolate !!. On a bright note, if the rain in your area is warm, then hot chocolate all round. On a serious note - You might want to make sure your dogs don't get into it. Not sure how much coco residue is in the mix but chocolate is very toxic to dogs so be careful…

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Treebeard

Joanie, thanks for this. Now I know what to get my wife for Valentine's day

Regards,

Chris.

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Joanie

Yes, chocolate is toxic to dogs. He didn't want to eat it, though, the shells are too hard and crunchy. He was convinced that there HAD to be a chocolate bar in there somewhere... like the optimist, the pile of horse droppings, and the pony.

The squirrels, however, are another matter. (says innocently) Is chocolate poisonous to squirrels??

Joanie

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stephenr

Don't have a squirrel problem her in Oz so I don't know. Maybe someone else in BT could answer this..

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robert1955

Joanie, your a riot. I have seen what your talking about, but i didn't buy any. Now that you have I won't. Hmm, do I know your mom? I also have a secret garden. After all, I live in North County.


Peace
bob

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PatArizona

G'day Joanie...

You said: "...We haven't had rain here in...hmmm... over a month?...".

Well...Phoenix and Tucson are saying no rain in 103 days...

Here in Oracle, it's closer to 4 months.

By golly, gee wiz...makes me wish that we were moving back to California, rather than 20 miles closer to Tucson...

We do the rain dance (some times the snow dance) here from time to time...you know, the one where you go out and dance when the rain or snow starts falling...
The other one, dancing to get it to rain, doesn't work well.

We call ours "dances with rain".

Have a good day...

Pat

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Joanie

Ah, Pat, we know how you feel. "Over a month" actually means "I can't remember the last time it rained." (Edit: it was New Year's Day when it rained last.) Moldy soil isn't a problem in that case, is it? Quite the opposite.

Living in the desert is an experience that some people love, and others never really enjoy. Driving along the flat, wide, dry expanses between California and Arizona, or Nevada, and seeing tiny deserted one-room shacks with the cruel wind scouring their bleached walls, is a reminder of just how difficult desert living can be. In the desert, nature is not gentle. Rain, when it comes, pours down hard and makes the sand slick and treacherous. Wind picks up the dry sand and uses it to round out every sharp corner, pit the glass and metal of homes and cars, even temporarily blind people and animals in the worst gusts. In summer, the sun is relentless and powerful, you can feel it beating on you until you can't think and begin to hallucinate.

Modern life has overcome the problems of desert living, for the most part, but it is a razors edge and Nature is always there, in the background, waiting.

Joanie

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BTW, I bundled the chocolate soil up and took it back to Home Depot today. Told them that the dog wouldn't stop digging at it. The lady laughed and gave me my money back. So no one's garden will be smelling like chocolate here.

Then again, fresh pine bark smells pretty darned good, doesn't it?

Joanie

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bonsaial1

Is it actually toxic? I had always heard that chocolate causes their hearts to race and could give them a stroke. I had not heard that it was actually poisonous. If it is, what quanities and why isn't poisonous to us. Of course my wife says this stuff is pure poison to her.

Our dogs have had chocolate on occasion with no ill effects. In fact I know of one german shepard that got into a birthday party pinata before the party started and ate the whole damn thing, paper mache and all!

Cheers, Al

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