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Garden Gate:  I'm wilting too......  |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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 Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 04:50:30 AM
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I don't know if it's the heat or just plain ole getting older, but I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by my garden! For me this is highly unusual, gardening is my passion but by this time of the summer, I"m ready to dig it up and lay it to rest! I just turned 47 last month, and can keep up with it till it gets super hot then it's too miserable to get out and weed, so the garden gets wild and who wants to tame a beast like that in a heat wave? Am I the only one who goes through this phase that I like to call mid summer nightmare?
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 05:06:23 AM
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I find I let mine go kind of wild - benign neglect works to! There are weeds in the garden, but it is still putting out some great peppers and tomatoes and cucumbers. I go out in the early mornings to work in it, and even then do not stay long. But it seems to go on without me much better than I thought it would!
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garliclady
True Blue Farmgirl
274 Posts
Reidsville
NC
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 06:50:00 AM
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I also get overwhelmed by the heat. My garden doesn't even look like a garden right now. It's so overgrown with weeds. And I don't think that age has anything to do with it because even in my 20's I couldn't take it. I think it's our survival instinct kicking in!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
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BStein
True Blue Farmgirl
75 Posts
Barbara
Westerville
OH
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Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 06:54:10 AM
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I'm glad to hear it's not just me! I thought I was a complete wimp! It's frustrating keeping up with the weeding and watering when I haven't picked anything but one little cherry tomato! Maybe after I get some results I'll get mor encouraged.
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
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Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 06:57:46 AM
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Sue -
You are not alone - it has been hot here and my veggie garden and flower garden are overgrown. I go out and look and just feel it looks so bad. It is finally cooling some here, so maybe this weekend I can tame it a bit, but it always happens when it gets hot. I just try to keep things alive with water and try to ignore the weeds.
Anne
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them" Eyeore from Winnie the Pooh
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 08:24:27 AM
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I'm definitely going to mulch next year. Straw is pretty cheap.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 10:28:14 AM
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You are not alone!!! This time of year I get tired of the daily watering ritual and dragging that darned hose all over the yard. But I keep telling myself that soon it will be raining for months on end so I need to enjoy this weather while I can. I bought a bale of straw to mulch my pumpkin patch So far so good. Think this is the way I will go every year. The rest of my garden is in raised beds so it makes it so much easier.
I choose faith not fear.
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 10:47:08 AM
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My MIL made us these great things. They are little neck kerchief things that are filled with those little polymer crystals that absorb water and expand. You soak them in cold water for about 30 minutes and tie it around your neck. Maybe I'll try that this afternoon. I forgot until now.
I want to start installing raised beds one or two at a time. I'm hoping to put in an asparagus bed before winter.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 11:44:10 AM
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Boy, am I relieved to see I'm not alone, and in great company too! I do mulch, everything and those pesky weeds still take over, esp. this one vine that has roots like spegetti noodles, they take over SO fast, I hate it! I don't like a messy garden either adding to my stress here, but at least the garden is producing so that's a good thing, but I was telling hubby last night, I think we need to scale back some, it's just us now so we don't need 3 huge gardens anymore, cut back to one and we'll still have plenty to can and share with the kids. I like the neck kerchief idea, that sounds pretty cool! Thank you ladies for making me feel better about my poor gardens, too bad I couldn't use the crowding method in the veggie gardens like I do in the flower beds, they are simple to keep up! Keep cool and I'm ready for fall!
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 10:30:35 AM
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Sue,
I've been the same way this year! It's so hot and hard to keep up with all the watering and weeding. I got a late start this year too. We had so much rain and cool weather this spring that things just didn't get done. I think it's just this year, hopefully....
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 10:33:39 AM
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That explains the food prices! I understand everything is very expensive in Japan. I have a cousin who lived there for quite a while. Hopefully it won't be too terribly long before you can have your own cherry tree in your own backyard.
Somehow this post ended up in the wrong thread. I must have had more than one window open. You must all think I'm nuts. "What is she talking about???"
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
http://www.betweenthecities.com/blog/ljr/
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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santa_gertrudis_gal
True Blue Farmgirl
198 Posts
Kim
Groesbeck
Texas
USA
198 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2006 : 08:40:32 AM
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Oh, Sue, I know it can get hot where you are. Two summers ago I took DD up to Columbia to visit Stevens College in Columbia. It was hot, but no where near like the Gulf Coast. My roses are doing their summer, "It's too hot, MOM! I've been lazy and not gotten my summer annuals in, too humid. Hot I can take. So that part of the garden looks awlful. I do feel for you. Weeds are having a field day, can't get to some until it dries a little.
For Lorij (bayoubunch) and I living on the Gulf Coast, the humidity is miserable. It's been raining for the third day in a row with over an inch a day and I'm sure it is true for Lorij, too. With the black goop we have for soil, it's sopping wet and mud.
I would love your heat and humidity! Can't wait until I move to Groesbeck.
Kim
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 27 2006 : 6:59:36 PM
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Oh you are definitely NOT alone. Last night I pulled weeds from only ONE ROW of my garden and I spent the entire night doing it. I have decided NEVER EVER to plant bush beans again as I pulled up every bean plant along with the weeds, to harvest the beans, and all the beans are bug-bitten. I seem to remember that my pole beans never had this problem. I will be lucky to have two quarts to freeze from a 5-gallon bucket of beans. That one little clean row looks so nice, but the rest of the garden is so weedy I am in despair. I saw on a web site that every Hairy Galinsoga weed has 7800 seeds on it so I have every intention of getting them all (eventually) but I do understand right now why my father and my husband think that herbicides are good things......better living through chemistry, they say, and I fight with them because organic is better, but today I am inclined to agree.....
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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