tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post6517277016578814711..comments2024-01-27T10:30:40.878-08:00Comments on Grow This: Hope Immoderately EnjoyedWeeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-39867044304900350732007-05-09T10:18:00.000-07:002007-05-09T10:18:00.000-07:00Aw, so sad! All the calming effect of tending to y...Aw, so sad! All the calming effect of tending to your baby veggies (thanks for the earlier posting on women's "tend or befirend" alternatives to "fight or flight") undermined in an instant.<BR/>Having spent the past week weeding and sowing and planting, I know how much this season of hope and promise can lift one's mood.<BR/>As you do more veggie gardening, I do less, partly because of the tyranny of all that ripe produce at once. I no longer can and only freeze tomatoes, peppers, and sometimes grean beans. The back half of my largest raised bed (maybe 6 by 25 feet) now hosts a new hedge-to-be of Knockout roses. I am tired of the view (the contractor next door hangs ladders and all manner of junk on the outside of his garage) and of fighting the Japanese beetle hordes. These roses are a miracle of selective breeding.<BR/>Also planted some containers like they do in the catalogs, with tall, spiky plants in the center, lower annuals around them, and trailing vinca and wandering jew (do you still call it that in this PC era?) around the edges. Give me a month and I will dazzle you with photos.<BR/>My tomato and pepper plants are still in walls-o-water, since we can still have frost until the end of the month, but they may not need it this year.<BR/>A soaking rain this morning left everything very green and fuzzy (although I swear I can HEAR the blasted grass growing!) I'm guessing that, even without yard service, you would not be mowing every four days out in the desert. The lilacs are in their glory. Perhaps I'll photograph them and then finally download the photo stash from Savannah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com