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thistlebloom

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I'm posting pics of my vegetable garden in spite of my ego.

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Notice how the corns height get shorter as it goes left? I think that's because the maple trees are sucking everything up and shading them earlier than the ones on the right.

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The ripe side of the NYer's.

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What you see from the road. All of these perennials were out of a friends garden who was downsizing and simplifying her beds.
I just sort of picked out holes (with a pick) in that terrible soil last fall, crammed the plants in (that had been sitting on a tarp for two weeks waiting for me...:hide watered and dumped a bunch of old horse manure over it all. This spring everything came back. Yes, I was surprised too!

This is the third year for that hops vine taking over the fence.

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The hops are starting to hop.
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I ditched work yesterday and spent the entire day working at home. My beds are not where I'd like them to be, but I got a lot of stuffed trimmed back and dead headed. I have mint in the shade bed and it was waist high and blooming! Way past time for some maintenance.

I hitched the old trailer to Janie and filled it up with trimmings from mostly the shade bed. This was about halfway done.

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My brain feels much better now that some of the beds are half tamed. :)
I like this color combo.
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One of my favorite clems. Sweet Summer Love. Finally got control of the grasshoppers that usually defoliate it.
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