Thursday, June 25, 2015
Betcha Didn't Even Know I Was Gone
Hi there!!!Thanks to a dear friend of my brother, I have been able to borrow one of her computers...She builds them as a hobby!~!!!! I feel really dumb now... Here is a new entry.. I just came in the house. Picked up the "poop", cut some hedges, gave my Kiwi vines a severe haircut. And a brisk talking to. If there are no fruit for next year's harvest, there will be a "pulling out party" and there will be some grapes in their place!!! This is the third year there were blossoms and the next time I looked, there were none !!!!. Grapes, on the other hand, always do well for me. I have been sweet-talking and coddling two males and one female Kiwi for five years and my patience has run out..I want some fruit Dammit!! I have a Niagara and a Cadence (?) grape and never ever do they give me a hard time. Maybe I should leave the Kiwi's to the Australians???? This variety was guaranteed to grow in zone 5. My house is zone 6, so I figured, no problem. Oh well. This week I finished all projects in my front yard. Holly hedges all clipped neatly and swept . Trial and error and bloody fingers taught me that to control and trim 30 feet of hedging you use hedge clippers, a metal rake to pull the clippings on the ground, a snow shovel to pick them up and place them in a barrel, and of COURSE leather garden gloves. They sure look spiffy when they are all done and already two neighbors commented on them. I used a tree saw to trim the unruly sprouts my Dogwood seems to develop each spring, and just might start calling it "Alfalfa" after the comic character with the wild hair. The Josee lilacs have finished their first bloom, and now is haircut time for them too.(Some of you might remember I thought their fragrance was less than desirable) If you deadhead, they bloom continuously through fall. I don't care for the smell, but the flowers rock! The lawn is cut, weeds pulled in the beds, Rhodies have all been deadheaded, and I even put a pot of Roses on my front step.I should take a picture, and a family visiting my neighbor actually did. The father walked up and asked if he could take pictures of my gardens to bring home to Texas.What was really cool was a big butterfly landed on the bush at that moment! Well, that about does it for this time, keep digging!!!
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Welcome back! (And I knew you were gone!)
ReplyDeleteI was waiting for you to come back:) You have been one busy lady and I would love to see a picture of your garden!! The butterfly knew what to do and how to pose perfectly. My hubby does all the gardening but I think he made a boo-boo. I need your advice if that's is ok. We bought a flowering cherry blossom tree (pink). He followed the instructions in planting it and he watered it.....daily! We went back to the place we bought it at and she told him he killed it due to over-watering. Now there are no leaves on it at all but the branches look good, not dead, the main trunck looks like a healthy reddish colour and there seems to be buds on it. Did my hubby kill it or will it come back next year?
ReplyDeleteSorry this answer took so long in getting to you. Truth is I had an elaborate one typed up a couple of days ago and hit a wrong key by mistake and the whole thing was sent into cyberspace.....I will try again. If the garden soil has good drainage, any watering of any amount will not kill a plant. The best way to check is what is known as the "fingernail" test.Gently scrape a bit (about 1/2 an inch or so) of the bark back on a branch and look at the tissue underneath.If it is living and green or white, your plant will be fine. If it is dead and brown, dig it out and plant something else in it's place. This brings me to tout my one and only garden law and rule::::: ORGANIC MATTER ORGANIC MATTER ORGANIC MATTER...I can never say it enough. If the soil has enough peat and compost like stuff in it, you will cut down on watering, feeding,spraying for bugs, all sorts of good things will happen to your plants.The roots will spread out wide, get lots of nutrients from the organisms presently living in said organic matter, and the plant will be able to fend off naturally all the stuff we have to help them with when they are not that healthy on their own.Happy plants, happy people, happy environment.Now I have shared my big secret with you, at least once a week people stop to ask what I do to make my plants so "pretty" I always give the same answer. May your garden live long and prosper.
DeleteI am really glad you are back. I won't say anything about how I tried to shame your brother into helping you get back online weeks ago. For that might cause some trouble, and since neither one of you-two are worth a hoot at taking and publishing incriminating photos, it would be a waste of time to stir up any trouble. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteIt was an old girlfriend of Davis' that is lending one of her "extra" laptops to me. Too bad they never got married... they were engaged for a while. But then there would have been two Kathy Lynches in this world in the same town, same State, and I don't think the world is ready for that. ...(Sigh back.)
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