GARDENS - How does your garden grow?

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This is a question for you gardeners, how does your garden grow?

This morning, while walking outside checking all my growing friends, I was shocked to discover that I already had 4 green tomatoes on one of my plants.

My Queen Elizabeth rose is about to be in full bloom. I shall have some huge cut roses from this huge tree this year. I have counted at least 16 huge pink buds. Gotta love the hubby, he won't buy me cut flowers but he'll buy me roses to produce all that I could ever want. The gift that keeps on giving. :)

All the other veggies have sprouted, and my glads (which I thought were frozen over the winter) have sprouted and are growing like mad.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001

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Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Sounds like your grden is doing great. I am waiting for another loade of red mulch to the water gardens and the courtyard entrances. I am already pissed at dan..he covers anything, ferns that I have babied for 3 years..... and I am laying the mat down and doing it so it won't need done for a while...he is a real bull in a china shop... (He's a Taurus, by the way.) any way, at least he is getting the mulch for me, I could have to do that,TOO! I have bleeding harts in bloom, coral bells, hostas are all opening up, my lilacs are burting will bloom this week, well, I will try to post pictures as they come....I have some in the Garden Gallery at Inner Connections, then all of a sudden all my pics changed from gifs to jpegs.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

My roses are all in heavy bud; the Sarah van Fleet has been blooming for over a week now, petals like finely textured silk.

I bought some white cosmos plants today; they looked so fresh and cool with their pure white blooms and airy, ferny foliage--and they'll look the same when the dreadful summer heat and humidity arrive. (Which is next week, far as I can gather.) The pansies are about finished but I can't bear to pull them up while they still have blooms on them. I have some very large bearded iris in flower, given to me by a friend, whose blooms are the richest purple velvet I've seen. Wild orange wallflowers, pinks, weigela "Bristol snowflake," a primrose potentilla, ranunculus, Spanish broom getting ready to bloom--oh there's a ton of stuff out there!

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001


Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Well, I put 3 tomato plants in an above-ground container. I have (at least) 3 DOZEN green 'maters, anywhere from quarter size, to hardball size. (But, I live in Tampa FL, and I put my starts in about 5 weeks ago) And a ton of new blooms.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

I'm soooo jealous. Our veggie garden is still empty. Hubby tilled it last weekend and we got almost 4 inches of rain.

Nothing is blooming yet, but the iris and lilies are about 5 inches tall now, and the bluebells should bloom in the next week or so. The maples and elms are starting to bud and the grass is starting to grow. At least it ain't snowing ;)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001


Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Talked to Dad today (English Midlands). It was sleeting. . .

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001


Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

I have some tomato blooming and pepper, but what I have planted from seed hasn't come up yet. The things I have are doing fine. The only problem I have right know is what ate my figs! I had a tree full and in one day they are gone with no hint what did it.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Git...do you have cosmos flowering already?????? mine aren't even breaking through the ground yet! and Shade...what ever it was...it was HUNGRY!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Saro1 have you got a guess what it was not anything on the tree was hurt only the figs gone. Not a leave or bark hurt.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

I once lost a treeful of pears. Turned out, our neighbor picked them all while we were at work.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Regarding things disappearing, a raccoon can be a very clever thief in the night.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001


Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

We have lost figs, too. We discovered that field mice were doing it.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001

Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

Sheeple asks the question: How does my garden grow?

First time in my life I've been asked that, but I do have an answer.

"With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Wo-wo-wo-wo walkin' the dog.."

Poetry is my life.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001


Response to Gardens - How does your garden grow?

I certainly do, SAR. They were flowering in the 6-pack when I bought them. . .

Was at Costco today and took a chance on some of those bagged bulbs. It's a bit late to be buying them; in fact, not only were little shoots making their presence known, some of the lilies actually had little flower buds forming. That's 45 lilies in pots today, 20 white Asian, 20 white oriental. I already have yellow and pink ones.

Yesterday I found a lotus at one of our local garden stores. It's very pretty, with grey-green ferny leaves and small orange and fiery red flowers like tiny birds. (I had bought pots at estate sales in the morning and had to have something to put in them.)

Some of the soaker hose I found yesterday has already beeb installed. I hope to do the back tomorrow. What a luxury, simply plugging in the hose and letting 'er rip for half an hour instead of standing out there in the heat or moving the sprinkler every 20 minutes. With the house I bought last year at a garage sale, that means I'll have the WHOLE yard soaker-hosed for 18 bucks. With the two mini pot-watering systems I got at Costco, my watering chores willbe reduced to an absolute blisssful minimum. What a great time- and sweat-saver! What a country!

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001


"I'm soooo jealous. Our veggie garden is still empty." Big Kumara, I think you have the wrong attitude here! Your garden is never as lovely as when you can still dream about the possibilities. Mine is just starting for the season. We're expecting mid-80s this week, but it is really a few weeks too early to put out tender plants, like tomatoes and peppers, which are growing very nicely indoors at the moment.

To me this is the most critical time of the season, at least for my very large perennial garden. What with some not surviving the winter and others growing at unpredictable rates and sometimes in unpredictable directions, I can't help but believe that my garden will be a disaster this season if I don't move every one of those suckers. At least a couple of inches hither or yon.

And then there's the matter of last year's mistakes which I never bothered to document. I KNOW there's something I didn't care for that particular section of the garden, but darned if I can remember what it was. I can barely remember the names of most of the plants. ;-)

So, now that the bark mulch is under the shrubs, and the garden has basically been tidied up, and I'm still successfully ignoring the effort it will take to do the first mowing (will the mower even start?), I'm very busy moving stuff around, shaping clumps, and filling in spaces better left unfilled for expansion of its neighbors.

With luck, I won't be totally disgusted with my garden for at least another 6 to 8 weeks when chaos is sure to take over.

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2001


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