FREEZE WARNING

[thistlebloom]

Thanks Mary! You never know with this crazy weather. Could be we'll have summer into October or something wild like that.

 

[baymule]

Now this is where my Daddy would do something fun. If he were teaching kids how to garden and things got frost burnt, he would go to the store, buy vegetables and tie them to the plants. He gave fruit trees to my grandfather once, and had cut out pictures of fruits and vegetables from catalogs and tied them to the bare trees.

 

[ninnymary]

Thanks Mary! You never know with this crazy weather. Could be we'll have summer into October or something wild like that.

We're having a heat wave. So, it's a little hard to imagine frost!

Mary

 

[ninnymary]

Unfortunately, it is a great teaching moment.

Mary

 

[digitS']

I don't know how this relates.

My neighbor thru the fence is having a tuff time doing anything in his garden. He had major surgery about 4 years and that was how he thought to have us over there. I built the shed and attach a hoop house to it every spring since.

He lost a parent last year and I'm afraid to ask him about his aged mother. Now, he's having trouble getting around because of arthritis, about 60 and still working.

He likes pretty things. Likes to have cherry tomatoes and raspberries for when his grandkids visit. I suggested taking everything down to bare ground again, like I did a few summers ago. He just kinda looks at all his volunteer poppies, larkspur, hollyhocks, weeds ... looks sad.

His garden beds I use - I planted them with tomatoes, cukes, summer squash, and green beans. Then, I put up "a sign" for his garden ... I'd already told him it would not be for us. I'll keep the tiny thing watered and weeded.

What about signs and such, Thistle'?. Have you noticed how much hardscaping makes a garden useful and how the little whimsical elements add to gardening joy?

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Steve, it's so kind of you to plant and take are of a small garden for your neighbor.
You're a compassionate neighbor.

I put a few whimsical touches in the kids garden. I have an old iron headboard that I bought at a garage sale years ago for $1.50. I used a few bales of straw and turned it into a "flowerbed". White petunias as the pillows, and a staggered planting of red cali and little sanvitalia for the quilt. I put a metal woodpecker on the headboard. His wings are supposed to rotate in the wind, but they don't. I won't have to worry about him leaving I guess.

I also attached a windmill that looks a bit like it's vanes are flower petals to the fence.

The kids will be making half scarecrows soon, from old jeans and a flower pot with buckwheat growing out of it. Or grass if my buckwheat is no longer viable.

If our plants don't produce anything, at least it's an interesting place to hang out in.

 

[baymule]

Pictures??

 

[thistlebloom]

Pictures??

There will be a few in a minute or two on the kids garden thread. More as the garden grows and looks more gardeny.