Good day friends, madgardener poking her face over the garden hedge on
this bright and sunny Spring day that here in upper Northeastern
Tennessee is TOO warm and it's forcing the blooming trees to fast
forwards. I will write of them in a later post. Right now I wanted to
just say that recently I've noticed here on wreck gardens that when me
or anyone answers a question (a sincere one, not a troll who is trying
to pick a fight amongst us) it goes usually where it goes. They are
appreciative or they are dubious or someone decides they need to just
"come for an argument" in the words of the old Monty Python
skit..........I don't mind the questions or doubts, and over the
course of years and with my aging and maturity (still working on it
all day by day as are we all) I don't tend to let the arguments bother
me as much anymore, I overlook the goads and move on.

But I recently as you may or may not have seen, answered someone's
question regarding Japanese beetle erradication. I realize that this
person has trees now, (fast reading late at night and reading glasses
that need upgrading and older eyes that have now had cataracts taken
off and fixed partially) and that hand picking was absolutely out of
the question. My observation though was this person decided that I was
fulla shit. that I hadn't had experiences personally with Japanese
beetles, not seen one up close and although correct about my "verbose
trilogy" regarding the containers (we all know I am long winded and
write rambles!! LOL) that I was paraphrasing the advice to them.
well, as some of you older residents know, if I DO quote someone elses
experiences, I tend to give credit where credit is due. '

I guess I should just take it on the chin and move on with the
container gardening that I am forced to do while I am living in
someone elses home. I am still renting and my pleasures of gardening
is strictly in many, many containers of perennials, bulbs and a few
shrubs. But it doesn't void my previous experiences I had extensively
when I lived in Faerie Holler over in Dandridge for almost 14 years. I
still compost, I still do raised bed gardening. I still grow
perennials, houseplants, cacti and succulents, blooming shrubs
although in large containers now instead of them planted in the ground
because I am renting right now, and I still even grow vegetables in
containers in spite of previously having land to garden on. It was
easier to grow some things in containers for me even in my former
Faerie Holler.

I guess I just needed to validate that I am who I say I am, done what
I say I've done and there are those out there who know this and who
lurk. And I don't take myself too seriously except I don't offer
solutions unless I KNOW they are proven and tried.
I will write a ramble soon about the goings on here in upper
Northeastern Tennessee where the blooming trees are unseasonably doing
their thing right now..

madgardener, gardening in zone 7a, Sunset zone 36 in downtown
Greeneville, TN.