Gardening, anyone?
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Got there tomatoes growing now. Pea and green bean plants are flowering. I've got one little flower on my cucumber plants. Tomatoes look like they are going to go like crazy.
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WenchLori Got those at Home Depot and for the life of me I can't remember what they're called. It had the botanical name on the tag. I'm pretty sure it started with a C. One of those names you can't pronounce.
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WenchLori,
I think I will raise my strawberries after this season.
Thank you!
Coach Vicky
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Woohoo! We had an unexpected rain shower Saturday night. I don't know which of you sent it, but thank you! The next week is predicted to be 98 to 100+ each day so the rain will be a big help. Picked more zucchini, blackberries and Asian pears. I even used some of my tomatoes in my salad last night.:-) I love this time of the year!
Wren, that first bite is always the best!
MOmmy it sounds like your garden is growing great too!
~Heidi
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It is. Haven't really had to water much, have gotten some rain lately. Supposed to see thunderstorms or rain showerstomorrow.
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Boy did we get hit with heavy rain and wind while we were in Ohio and again today! Still no zucs but the plants are lovely lol
Just wanted to share...
O to lie in the ripening grass
That gracefully bends to the winds that pass,
And to look aloft the oak-leaves through
Into the sky so deep, so blue!
–William Roscoe Thayer (1859–1923)0 -
My strawberries all eaten, maybe chipmunk?
Still tons of moss everywhere.
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He probably wrote that poem while lying in the grass. :-)
Meow, almost any of the small critters, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, will munch on the juicy berries. I love the critters but dislike the fact that hey feel the need to take the fruits of our labor.
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Evidently there aren't any chiggers in Ohio. If Thayer tried that in Arkansas he wouldn't have written a poem about it.
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LOL
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Lol
Praying we get some rain today, even if it comes in the form of thunderboomers
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Very funny Ananda! We don't have them up here and I don't miss them at all. Mosquito bites didn't bother me very much but chiggers were another matter.
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Lori - love the Thayer poem. Tells it like it should be enjoyed.
Traveling back home and beyond the travel concerns I find myself wondering what my garden looks like. Two weeks is a long time to not tend to it. DH has picked tomato's but he doesn't talk to the plants like I do (smile). I am SO pleased, the facility is telling the family it looks like Dad will be able to eventually get back to his own home with someone checking on him. Which is so what he wants. So I am leaving him on a positive note. Not bad for being in hospitals/ICU/and rehab facilities for three weeks and being 92. It has been hotter here then back home . . . 98 today in Maryland.
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For those who might have too much zucchini on their hands, a poem:
Marge Piercy - Attack of the Squash People
And thus the people every year
in the valley of humid July
did sacrifice themselves
to the long green phallic god
and eat and eat and eat.
They're coming, they're on us,
the long striped gourds, the silky
babies, the hairy adolescents,
the lumpy vast adults
like the trunks of green elephants.
Recite fifty zucchini recipes!
Zucchini tempura; creamed soup;
sauté with olive oil and cumin,
tomatoes, onion; frittata;
casserole of lamb; baked
topped with cheese; marinated;
stuffed; stewed; driven
through the heart like a stake.
Get rid of old friends: they too
have gardens and full trunks.
Look for newcomers: befriend
them in the post office, unload
on them and run. Stop tourists
in the street. Take truckloads
to Boston. Give to your Red Cross.
Beg on the highway: please
take my zucchini, I have a crippled
mother at home with heartburn.
Sneak out before dawn to drop
them in other people's gardens,
in baby buggies at churchdoors.
Shot, smuggling zucchini into
mailboxes, a federal offense.
With a suave reptilian glitter
you bask among your raspy
fronds sudden and huge as
alligators. You give and give
too much, like summer days
limp with heat, thunderstorms
bursting their bags on our heads,
as we salt and freeze and pickle
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Love this poem!
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Ananda, that is so funny! I've only had to deal with chiggers once and that was more than enough for me! If I'd lay in the grass here I'd be carried off by ants!
My tomato plants are loaded with tomatoes but none are ripe enough to eat. I'm waiting for my Early Girls to get big enough for some fried green tomatoes. Yummy! We had an algy bloom and we have lost a lot of fish. I'm so sad! Most of our paddle fish were doing great! They were the most interesting fish we have. The catfish don't seem to be having any problems at this time. I'm praying they are still swimming when it gets light enough to see the pond. My DS will be here later today or early tomorrow, I'm so excited!
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Maybe I should use some of our dead fish for fertilizer!
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Gardennerd ... I talk to my plants too. I always pray over my garden when I plant.
When I traveled a lot (before BC), number 2 son would tend our garden. He hated it and I believe my plants felt his attitude.
That is GREAT news about your Dad. I am happy for you and him.
Coach Vicky
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Flaviarose - that's hysterical!
I planted my squash late this year in order to avoid squash borers and squash bugs. They're a dreadful problem every year for me. If it works and I finally get lots of squash, I'm planning on canning.
Gardennerd and Coachvicky - although I don't pray in my garden, my daughter is always singing when she is helping me weed.
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Praying for the rain today we didn't get yesterday. Really don't want to have to water from the hose
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Gardennerd, I know what you mean. I hate to leave my plants during the growing season because I know they won't get the love I give them. :-)
That's good news about your dad. My mom is 90 and lives alone too. Her significant other lives next door and she takes care of him, making sure he takes his meds correctly and cooks dinner for the both of them almost each day. He has mild dementia and recently broke his arm and has been in a rehab /nursing home for 2 months. I know eventually he will need to go into the VA center as a full time resident but for now, Mom wants to try and care for him. The hard part is when she ends up in the hospital with congestive heart failure because she refuses to not eat the things she should stay away from. She tells me, "I am 90" and lets that sit right there.
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Wenchie, Just be sure not to use the fish near the house. Take my word for it.
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Thunderstorm came through and dumped a good amount of rain
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Hmmmm *hand on chin* Wonder why Wren said that.
MOmmy you seem to be very lucky with getting rain, Your garden is probably loving it.
~Heidi
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More like my water bill is loving it. Got more rain this morning.
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SummerRain - if I sung in my garden, my plants would wilt
Heidi - I treasure that my Dad has a companion as your mom. A persons time is probably the best gift at their age, something I've learned to appreciate more and more as I get older.
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So much rain past month and two weeks I'm gone. Lost entire tomato plants. Managed to get alot of maters off plants. So the garden tending while I was gone was more of Mother nature's doings. Have some birdhouse and basket gourds that are happy. Can't seem to upload from phone. Will try later on computer (okay, finally got pic loaded)
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hi... I have been following this thread for a while and I am in awe at the beautiful work you all are doing.. a few years before my cancer DX I had 3 major surgeries to my right hip(replaced,stem revised,and a 10in cadaver bone on femur) I just love to get my hands and feet dirty and as you might expect I can't push a shovel in anymore...I was lucky to find some alpine miniatures and off I went gardening with a spoon. All my veggies are in pots but they don't do very well(tips appreciated)and in between my perennials I have darling little "fairy" gardens. My favorites right now are my lil hostas and I have a tiny tea rose with 1/4in lt pink rose buds, pics don't do it justice but I'll try...
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