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This years veggies
I love this fishpepper, seeds of which Ladyapple sent in the spring. I hope I can save some seeds from it to grow again next year. I haven't tasted it yet. They just started to turn red this past week.
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Test
Testing this cross-posting thingie although I'm certain I'm nuts to be trying it. Hello hello is anybody there. :) -
The side garden beds
Rhodielady, if you are reading, some of your iris are in these pix. In the first they are in back of the purple pansies. I grew all of these pansies from seed last summer. They are surrounded by the sedum that Mamabeaks sent. I am very happy with the sedum, it's doing it's job, eating up the grass. LOL
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Getting Ready
Last fall I told myself I wasn't going to buy any seeds this year but just use what I had leftover but I yesterday when I went to Home Depot I couldn't help myself.
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I waited all summer for this?
Those pesky cosmos are finally blooming. Geeeeez luize. Was it really worth the wait? LOL
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Fall bloomers
The mums around the house are really looking lovely this fall.
This is the one I bought mom for her birthday. I bought it home from the nursing home yesterday and it's being dared to live. I put staw in the bottom of the container because I didn't have enough packaged dirt. Used store bought black dirt and potting soil and then insulated it around ( Read more... ) -
A whole bunch of nothing
I'm still trying to decide what I want to do today. Truth be told I wish to do a whole bunch of sitting on my butt and not much of anything else. Guess I should put the clothes I took home for mom in the washer, hiking down to the basement is easy enough. And then I can drag some of the gardening equipment down there to store away for the winter so ( Read more... ) -
Dividing Perennials
Lots of good info in this article,
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Colchicum and Stuff
Clipping back some of the annuals paid off. The colchicum bulb I planted last year has come back. I think there might be two of them now. I need to do some weeding but I was not prepared for the bees and mosquitoes out there today.
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