How does your garden grow? - Page 4

     I have always wanted to grow the old fashion heirloom variety of roses. The fragrance of the newer, easy to grow varieties is not as pleasing IMO.....: )

      Steve....You make it look so easy....: )

      Keith...I think you must be right about our climate not being the optimum location for roses. All I ever see growing here are the newer low maintenance type. They do not compare with the traditional / old fashion roses in beauty or fragrance....I will have to do some research on milky-spore....Thanks for the tip...: )



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Hey, I put this in it's own thread, but here it is again, my new rose garden!And you can see who helped by carrying water jugs....Lil' Bit! A working GSD, LOL! jackie harris

Finally I got some pictures to show you all!

 
 

And a few more...

 

 

And finally,

The Runner Beans have been exceptional this year no doubt to the amount of Rain plus the Marrows have been great,
The Tomatoes did not fare well as did not the Carrots, The Roses had four lots of flowers  throughout the Summer but knocked about by the rain. i have put 20 dinners in the freezer of the runners so i am pleased.
Steve1

during my sickness my garden turned to weeds.
i had put a lot of work starting last fall in my garden. it seemed as though when i got my row of half runners in , i fell apart.  wade

sable59...hope u are feeling better...

Beetree..that is one gorgeous garden....how do u keep your grass from taking over inside your garden? My attempt of a garden in a new spot got taken over by weeds and some weird vines...I got so frustrated i took down the fence and ran a lawn mower through it...discovered we had a huge rat living in there too...dogs had fun chasing it but i think cat got it during night since it was left by the backdoor on my frigging flip flop....so gross....

Thanks LadyFrost! It takes a lot of weeding and mulching, lol. I always seem to be cleaning dirt out from my fingernails. I use this good quality weed-seed free straw, that you can see one partly hidden bale of, in the whole garden picture. I just need to keep "on top of it." Or it gets overwhelming. My handy spray hanging from my tacky looking fence is the deer repellant, Bobbex. Nothing worse than doing all that work and seeing Bambi gave everything a trim sometime during the night.

That will be my project for next year, a fencing upgrade. I would make it a bit smaller, too, since no one ever helps weed it, but me!

...And rats left in your flip-flops is a sign of affection! Plus, now you know there IS one less rat left in your world. But eewwwe!