Garden humor thread..
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Carol Dee
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Anniekay
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@Carol Dee As for number 4 above:
Yesterday this lady stops at my house while I was working in my front flower Garden, just 20 or so feet from the road. She was saying how she smiles whenever she passes by due to all the color out there.
She asked me if I talked to my plants and I said: " Yes. I tell them they better get their roots down and grow or else I'll rip them out by their necks and compost them.!! ".
She commenced to telling my Day Lily: "I'm sure she wouldn't do that to you, pay no attention !! "
Yesterday this lady stops at my house while I was working in my front flower Garden, just 20 or so feet from the road. She was saying how she smiles whenever she passes by due to all the color out there.
She asked me if I talked to my plants and I said: " Yes. I tell them they better get their roots down and grow or else I'll rip them out by their necks and compost them.!! ".
She commenced to telling my Day Lily: "I'm sure she wouldn't do that to you, pay no attention !! "
Carol Dee
Garden Master
I love it ~@Carol Dee As for number 4 above:
Yesterday this lady stops at my house while I was working in my front flower Garden, just 20 or so feet from the road. She was saying how she smiles whenever she passes by due to all the color out there.
She asked me if I talked to my plants and I said: " Yes. I tell them they better get their roots down and grow or else I'll rip them out by their necks and compost them.!! ".
She commenced to telling my Day Lily: "I'm sure she wouldn't do that to you, pay no attention !! "
Carol Dee
Garden Master
digitS'
Garden Master
Right, @Carol Dee 
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Those foxgloves that I photographed & posted on @Shades-of-Oregon 's thread remind me of my grandmother almost every time I look at them. She told me their name when we lived with her in California's Central Valley. I was 3 and 4 years old during the 12 months we lived there. I visited the home where she and my grandfather were living before she moved back to California. Such a pleasant place on the Frazer River in British Columbia just outside of Hope, BC. No one had lived there since my grandfather had died and I was 18 during that visit. Her Victory garden still had its outlines but the only thing that was growing there from the time it was her garden were the foxgloves.
Then, there was the other grandmother and her Porter tomatoes ... that she called "the peddler's tomato." My uncle said that she was growing them during the Great Depression. I have had Porters for 30 years now.
We may all have stories like this altho it may not be a grandmother but some other person from an earlier generation.
.Those foxgloves that I photographed & posted on @Shades-of-Oregon 's thread remind me of my grandmother almost every time I look at them. She told me their name when we lived with her in California's Central Valley. I was 3 and 4 years old during the 12 months we lived there. I visited the home where she and my grandfather were living before she moved back to California. Such a pleasant place on the Frazer River in British Columbia just outside of Hope, BC. No one had lived there since my grandfather had died and I was 18 during that visit. Her Victory garden still had its outlines but the only thing that was growing there from the time it was her garden were the foxgloves.
Then, there was the other grandmother and her Porter tomatoes ... that she called "the peddler's tomato." My uncle said that she was growing them during the Great Depression. I have had Porters for 30 years now.
We may all have stories like this altho it may not be a grandmother but some other person from an earlier generation
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Carol Dee
Garden Master
Carol Dee
Garden Master
Blueberry Acres
Deeply Rooted
flowerbug
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so, garden like it is 1935?!
in all of my years of visiting my grandparents and greatgrandparents i never saw any of them or my aunts and uncles in the garden... i spent more time out there than any of them and i wasn't working it much at all either, at least not until we had the house more out in the country ourselves.
i blame this on the fact that some of them had farms and made their children work the fields when they got tired of it. i'm surprised my Dad actually tried to grow some beans a few times in pots. i don't know if any of those farms were actually successful.
