I love to see my garden bloom
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 18:16
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Good, bad - I'm the guy with the gun.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Love that!!
The Ashisall
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Amen to that, too much to see to presently- without the paranoid hype... Besides we got enough guns and seeds- and some rather tasty lookin' neighbors with goats and sheep should anything baaad happen
I got 2 tomato plants with one bitty fruit a piece, one green pepper plant, one apple tree, one parsley plant, and one cantalope. DID HAVE a pretty watermelon but hubby has large crushing feet, I'm still in mourning...
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Damn, I read the thread title and thought this was another one of Chrisisall's sex polls!
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he he, hadn't thought of THAT.
I'm still wonderin' where he's going with all this?
Not so sure about the rational discussion as I am sure it's Summer Fever... (not the Glau kind!!)
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Hmmm, I'll have to plant basil again next year. Covered an entire area with herbs last year, some of them came back big time this year, but I didn't notice bees on them. I LOVE bees. One year we found a bumbler nest in the back yard, it was SO neat to see the weebers come out and do their thing! More bees, less yellow jackets. We HATE them, and they'll be everywhere soon. Yuck.
Have this one monster bush that comes back every year which the hummers ADORE. Sit here at my compouter and watch 'em out the window...most of my plants the hummers love, so they're around a lot. Cute little things; once I had a sprinkler going (back when I planted in the ground) and a hummer sat on a wire under the sprinkler and had a lovely bath...FUN to watch!
My tomato plants are doing good, need to move them so they'll get more sun tho'. Got one green pepper and one cuke plant (about the only veggies I like); the rest is flowers flowers flowers.
I grow mine almost exclusively in hanging baskets and urns, and right now you stand at the kitchen window and look out and it's a riot of color!
Pretty soon Indian Summer will hit and it'll be tough keeping everything watered, the pansies will disappear and everything will fight for life. Right now is our technical "Summer", which means fog's in most mornings so we don't get above the seventies and I only have to water every three days or so. If it could only stay that way...
But within the next month or so, the fog will desert us, temps will go up and the fun will be over until the rains come...sigh...
I love hanging planters. I bring them indoors and prune and dead head in my recliner in front of the TV. TV isn't usually worth looking at anyway, so I don't need to pay it much attention, and I can prune/dead head all day and into the night. Something compulsive I'm sure!
Have to charge the ole' camera so I can bore you with pix...
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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Quote:Well, in that case I'm less bitter. I once was able to make heirloom tomato salad with all kinds of colored tomatoes - Mr. Stripy, Green Zebra, the purple and yellow and gold. And red ones, of course. So yummy!
Originally posted by chrisisall:
LOL, it was in a pot, and we watered it excessively.
Small, but delicious.
I do have a potted tomato plant this year. It' had 2 green tomatoes on it for months now. It's like it hit pause and won't get going again.
As for bees - my old garden has a perennial catnip plant that gets taller than me and is covered in bees. Bees buzz in the blooms on top, cats nibble and nap in the shade beneath. It's a happy plant.
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