OK...NOW what's growing in your Garden?
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Well, the SECOND planting of okra and peas
have come up quite nicely! The tomatoes are
growing well. My brother is keeping the "suckers"
pulled off of them (the little sprouts that grow
in the fork of a branch), so, they're growing
UP, instead of out. Got a few yellow squash
off the vines, too - they're loaded! We
hoed and tilled, this evening.
Mother Nature has been kind to provide the water.
have come up quite nicely! The tomatoes are
growing well. My brother is keeping the "suckers"
pulled off of them (the little sprouts that grow
in the fork of a branch), so, they're growing
UP, instead of out. Got a few yellow squash
off the vines, too - they're loaded! We
hoed and tilled, this evening.
Mother Nature has been kind to provide the water.
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GalvestonDuck
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No garden here. Does stuff grow in sand? 
Darn, I wish you were closer, Breeze. I'd buy some cucumbers. I love the smaller crispy ones that are pickle-sized. There's less seeds and that taste so good.
I need to find a good produce stand around here. All I ever see are watermelons and peaches.
Darn, I wish you were closer, Breeze. I'd buy some cucumbers. I love the smaller crispy ones that are pickle-sized. There's less seeds and that taste so good.
I need to find a good produce stand around here. All I ever see are watermelons and peaches.
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.Oh well there is always next year.-
Miss Mary
I used to purchase a minimum of 10 flats per summer. I had window boxes, huge bedded areas of annuals, flower pots, etc. - going all summer and early fall. Lots of work went into it all and within time our shrubs planted in 1989-90 grew quite large. And so did their roots! The one large bedded area that took 2 flats, just wasn't a good spot anymore for annuals. They didn't grow well at all there (evergreen shrub roots in this area, big time). The window boxes were sitting on my 11 front brick window sills. Our windows are painted wood. Husband would complain I was ruining the wood with red flower petals, that would stain it. True, geraniums and impatiens did stain the trim. And now this year we had cicadas. I just decided to take one year off to see if I missed planting flowers. Surprise-surprise - I haven't yet. I can't believe it either. Part of this is because we're a busy family. I can barely carve out 2 to 3 hours in a row for weeding, much less anything else. My neighbors are shocked I think - no flowers at Mary's house this year!
It's really kind of nice to take a year off. Now if my annuals would grow well like they did when we first landscaped our yard, then it would be different. I don't want to enlarge my bedding areas just to accomodate flowers! That entails even more mulch.
I'm just at the point in our lives where I want to be realistic. I also had to hire neighborhood kids to water for me and this year all I have to do is cancel the mail and paper for vacation (dog goes to the kennel)!
Mary
It's really kind of nice to take a year off. Now if my annuals would grow well like they did when we first landscaped our yard, then it would be different. I don't want to enlarge my bedding areas just to accomodate flowers! That entails even more mulch.
I'm just at the point in our lives where I want to be realistic. I also had to hire neighborhood kids to water for me and this year all I have to do is cancel the mail and paper for vacation (dog goes to the kennel)!
Mary
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I just bought another pack of impatiens (red) to replace blue lobelia that died in my pots and my flower beds. I never have any luck with those things.
I also bought and planted a "china girl" holly to fill in a spot in the front of my house that I recently cleared of a very invasive shrub. It had beautiful, long white flowers and the leaves turned red during the fall, but it keeps spreading. The holly currently is shorter than the azalea in front of it, but it's maximum height is 9' at full maturity. I had also pulled out a lilac bush that had a large dead branch on it. When I went to trim the branch off, I noticed another branch had wilted leaves which isn't good at all. I hated to pull it out since I love lilacs but it was dying. Plus, that area has SO MANY shrubs in it that they were growing into one another. Whoever planted the garden before I came made the common mistake of planting too many shrubs without consideration of how large they would actually grow. I had already moved one azalea and barberry bush to other areas of the yard.
I get positively antsy if I don't get a chance to go out and plant flowers. I'm sure though if I was as busy as you are Miss Mary, I wouldn't have as much of a choice, but to me, it would be depressing.
I also bought and planted a "china girl" holly to fill in a spot in the front of my house that I recently cleared of a very invasive shrub. It had beautiful, long white flowers and the leaves turned red during the fall, but it keeps spreading. The holly currently is shorter than the azalea in front of it, but it's maximum height is 9' at full maturity. I had also pulled out a lilac bush that had a large dead branch on it. When I went to trim the branch off, I noticed another branch had wilted leaves which isn't good at all. I hated to pull it out since I love lilacs but it was dying. Plus, that area has SO MANY shrubs in it that they were growing into one another. Whoever planted the garden before I came made the common mistake of planting too many shrubs without consideration of how large they would actually grow. I had already moved one azalea and barberry bush to other areas of the yard.
I get positively antsy if I don't get a chance to go out and plant flowers. I'm sure though if I was as busy as you are Miss Mary, I wouldn't have as much of a choice, but to me, it would be depressing.
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Miss Mary
Steph - I'm still not depressed. And I can't believe it either! We have prescriptions filled at Krogers and I'm up there a lot for Nina and Jim - acne meds, his Lipitor, etc. There are rows and rows of annuals all lined up, but I just walk right past them. I really am glad I took a year off. When I did still plant and we were this busy, I had little time to dehead, fertilize and properly water them. This year I just made it much easier - no flowers.
I won't always be this busy but for now there's not much I can do about this crazy teen schedule we have! I'm just trying to 'go with the flow'.....LOL
Mary
I won't always be this busy but for now there's not much I can do about this crazy teen schedule we have! I'm just trying to 'go with the flow'.....LOL
Mary
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Miss Mary
Annette - it doesn't help when you choose a Pharmacy in a grocery store. And if you walk in with script in hand, I swear it's a 20/30 minute wait. On purpose I think - so you buy groceries. I don't think I've ever gone inside for a Rx only!!! You always pick up 10 to 20 items.
For me to walk past all the many annuals I usually plant, was significant this year! I thought for sure I'd cave. I did cave last year and by July my flowers looked pitifully!!! So I'm still glad I skipped all of that.
Dieting.....what's that? LOL I need to start that diet....
Mary
PS - the more I think about it Annette, I think you were trying to click on the diet thread and not this flower one! So ignore this post.
For me to walk past all the many annuals I usually plant, was significant this year! I thought for sure I'd cave. I did cave last year and by July my flowers looked pitifully!!! So I'm still glad I skipped all of that.
Dieting.....what's that? LOL I need to start that diet....
Mary
PS - the more I think about it Annette, I think you were trying to click on the diet thread and not this flower one! So ignore this post.
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Goodness! It's rained so much in the last
month, that, the weeds are spreading like crazy!
It's too wet to get out in there with a hoe -
we're grabbing squash and cukes, still, and, even
have gotten a few tomatoes! But, it's
become a game,trying to pick in between rain
showers. Chances of afternoon rain, all
this week - hopefully, we'll get a day or two
without it. Then, I suppose that we'll be
begging for rain, by August....
month, that, the weeds are spreading like crazy!
It's too wet to get out in there with a hoe -
we're grabbing squash and cukes, still, and, even
have gotten a few tomatoes! But, it's
become a game,trying to pick in between rain
showers. Chances of afternoon rain, all
this week - hopefully, we'll get a day or two
without it. Then, I suppose that we'll be
begging for rain, by August....
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