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Poppy Love
Wed Apr 06 2011


I made my escape this morning and hit the grocery store while my courage was high. I bought a package of matzah the size of a small pickup truck. For some mysterious reason, the package of five boxes of matzah costs the same as one box individually.

I know my brother is yelling through the series of tubes... "Loss leader, Dill Weed!"

Still my hens and chickens... five one pound boxes of matzah is a lotta matzah.

Unfortunately, I got home with plenty of time left over for there to be no excuses in facing some of my garden work....

I decided to start here:

[album 65561 Messy.jpg]

I worked my weeding magic and now it looks like this:

[album 65561 Weeded.jpg]

Yeah, I know, I cheated by 'planting' containers that were already blooming away. Whatever, I'm a big cheater from way back.

I planted three of those white containers several weeks ago and they are really doing mighty fine if I do say so myself. Here's a nice shot of a particularly happy poppy.

[album 65561 Poppy Love.jpg]

Too bad the rest of the yard is so chaotic. The pear tree is still dropping blossoms like snow all over the patio and they all end up in my living room from dog foot traffic. I'm not cleaning off the patio until the snow storm is over. I've done it twice already and it's a complete waste of time.

Anyway. Progress was made. That's all I can say.


3 Comments
  • From:
    404Error (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Apr 06 2011
    I went out and bought most of my tomato plants today. (I stopped growing from seed after a year of heartbreak.) I got two Early Girls, a Sweet 100 and two Cherokee Purples, my favorites. Because they were out of stock I ordered two Abraham Lincolns-- the most prolific tomato I've ever grown. I made a crock pot full of tomato sauce every day the summer I grew one. I also ordered a combination test kit for pH, nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous. Other than that, I'll probably get a couple of very mild capsicum peppers and, perhaps, a squash. The only reason I even want to grow a summer squash is because I want the blossoms for stuffing and frying. After all, I can get squash for under a buck per pound all summer, but the blossoms are expensive, if they can be had at all.
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2011
    I cheat all the time in my gardens. It works for me.

    I've been working diligently at P's to get her yard in order. The end result is that mine is uncontrolled chaos and catastrophic mess.

    It's like the cobblers children who have no shoes...

    Thank you for the poppy pic. They're just so cheery, aren't they?

    Pardon me while I go evict the Gnomes yet again....
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 07 2011
    We used to have a neighbor that planted the planters, then in the fall he took up the ones with the plants, wintered them in his garage, and filled the holes with empty planters so they didn't fill over the winter. Come spring, the empty ones came out and the plants went back in. I liked that better than the neighbor who put plastic plants in every spring LOL! He never complained about needing to dead-head them!
    Alli