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Leanin' on the garden's fence
Charlie wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:02:28 -0700, Billy Rose wrote: Hey, Opa, Mazel tov and welcome back to bare knuckle gardening. Missed you you ol' coot.wonderful responses snipped and pruned but saved never the less Thanks for.......and I'll leave us with a bit of wisdom from Nelson Mandela that has been running around in my mind the last few days. Care Opa Charlie......again and yet to be Thanks to both of you, Billy and Charlie for writing a wonderful rambling and informative garden fence chat. I've missed those! Not knowing either of you doesn't matter........I can see and hear the goings on with the two of you. Reminded me of why I write and question why I haven't written lately despite the bad luck and personal problems and health issues.........soooooo, if you don't mind me leaning over the fence and chatting with the two of youse, I'd be honored. Garden note from Southeastern Tennessee and Faerie Holler is we're in a dangerous drought and sparse spits of rain are just teasers. My raised beds are hunkered down and miserable and I only water the container gardens as they dry out horribly and plead for me to tip them out and sink them into the ground so that the tightening soils would give the parched overgrown roots relief. I put my "Aunt Ruby's Green" tomato plants out too late.........I'll be lucky to get ANYTHING....I tucked them into the front flower bed as it's the only place to plant things that need full sunshine around Faerie Holler. On an ornamental note, though.......the beautiful hosta's I purchased last year in the wake of a bit of money and some serious sticky pot syndrome are holding their own underneath the black cherry tree in the before mentioned bed. Go figure. With the issue with my cataracts and then the horrible close up vision, I'm kinda three way blind. But yesterday I noticed that not only were the Japanese beetles not as heavy, but the Blister Beetles WERE awake and voracious and eating the Japanese anemone not only in the eastern Wall bed at the edge of the Not So Secret Garden to bones, but moving into the larger portion of the NSSG......I couldn't see clearly enough to do much good as they were hatched and munched the leaves to bones during the nighttime, and I went immediately to the Western bed and they were hatched and eating the anemone's in THAT bed as well.......the pyrethrum that works is made up, no spray bottle works around this house to kill the survivors, and funds are beyond tight here. (even looked for an old Windex spray bottle...where are these things when one needs them????) Potted up ALL the daylily rhizomes from weeks past adventure to Mr. Savage's incredible place he named "Dancing Winds" and boy it was about time, too. Cut the leaves back and made up beautiful soils in the large nursery containers I just can't throw away and then icy cold well water afterwards when I placed them around the crowded deck off the kitchen. Only a couple of frogs in Frog Holler in the BBQ pit fountain/gardens this year due to squire rinsing out the trough completely trying to get all the pumps for the brook and Greek woman with jar fountain piece to work properly. He rinsed out all the eggs that were stuck to the cover of the pump......sigh........only one magnificent ugly brown frog has been spotted and I hope the clawed frog killer, "Piquito" the fuzzy one who should be made into a set of slippers leaves him or her alone so they can make children. I set out the ugliest goldfish this year and kept the beautiful ones inside. They fill my heart with a smile, as do the fornicating guppies of varieties now that amazed me. I'd forgotten the joys of raising guppies......easy to see despite the cataracts, too. Flowers are cranking out despite the droughts and lack of me helping, but lordy, the vinca cares not a spit about lack of water or too much. It just invades more and more and I fear if I don't get out into the blasting heat and yank, I'll lose more than I realize. thanks for allowing me a lean over the hedge. Sweet iced tea for those who would like it. I also have a bottle of Michigan Sweet cherry wine that could be chilled for someone wanting a bit more than sweet iced tea gbseg madgardener up on the ridge, back in a parched Faerie Holler, overlooking a Hazy English Mountain where they've never raised Douglas Lake at all, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 (we DO have figs again despite the freeze that destroyed so much) |
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