These bushes were already here when we moved to H-Town. At this writing, I cannot for the life of me remember what their variety is, I just know that it is a very old variety and that it has not been in circulation for several decades. The first one makes huge, lovely blooms that smell delicious and are as big as a grapefruit when open. The second is a similar hybrid that I apparently cut wrong the first summer because now it mostly produces the tearoses and very few of the big creamy blooms. Wish I knew how to remedy the situation.
Here I have learned an important lesson on the use of potting soil. One should not have to weed her container garden this much.
Some tomatoes in the ground, some peppers in barrels. Yes, I did notice that the pepper on the left is receiving less sun and is thus being dwarfed by the one on the right. Since shooting the photo, I have remedied that problem.
And, dum dah dah DUM! The piece de resistance! I have to give credit to, of all people, Martha Stewart for giving me this idea. She has the most lovely ginormous garden at her Turkey Hill home where she uses raised garden beds. On her website, she extols their use, claiming that the soil heats more rapidly in the morning thus yielding bigger harvests. In addition, they are supposed to be easier to weed and be less prone to animal pests. I cannot attest to any of that just yet but I can say that raised beds look prettier to me and that I was so incredibly proud of myself for having built them all by myself.
I found the lumber at roadside one sunny garbage day morning and hauled it all home. Mr. P schooled me in the finer points of using the circular saw. I made my measurements, then cuts and then really gave my powertool loving friends a boner when I pre-drilled the holes before securing the wood with galvanized screws. After assembly, I dug out a slight trench in the existing soil in the shape of the box and then kind of buried about an inch of the laid down container. Several bags of topsoil along with some compost from my evergrowing heaps and I was ready to plant.
(L) A zucchini hill between two compost hoops.
(R) Chili pepper plant barely 8 inches tall, loaded with green babies!
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WOOOHOO Man your garden looks goooood. You are going to have so much veggie's you can stop eating meat now or have your own farmers market right there!
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