A weakness for plants
Saturday I received one of my favorite spring treats—the flyer from a local farm and greenhouse operation. ‘They offer thousands of healthy bedding plants, annuals, and perennials. Vegetables including over 75 tomato varieties and 68 pepper varieties and large selection of herbs and scented geraniums. They have blueberry and raspberry bushes along with 52 hosta cultivars and 48 different hemerocallis.’ In other words, they are a gardener’s paradise.
G and I will pay a call there after the Pennwriters conference next month. By then, we can safely plant tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, and the many other floras we’ll buy that day. We will load the rear of her hubby’s SUV to overflowing.
Last year I spent more than she did. We’ll see who gets off cheapest this year and I’m betting it won’t be me. I have a weakness for plants, an addiction if you will and not unlike my addiction for books.
I’ve perused their lists and marked what I want. This year the gardens will have, vegetable plants intermixed with flowers. The tomatoes I tried that way last year grew well. I’d sure like a nice variety of vegetables this year.
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Every year I say I won’t do it again and every year I do it again. Last year the garden was destroyed by rabbits except for the tomatoes. DS did his best w/fencing but it’s a sort of kidney shaped garden bordered by decorative stone (that weigh a ton each) so it’s hard to fence. Not your conventional garden. I’ve thought of having the stone taken away but we sure can’t do it. So I don’t know…this year that garden may just have tomatoes and peppers since the rabbits seem to leave them alone and a few flowers. I may do a large container up on the deck benches of Swiss Chard – where the rabbits can’t get to it. I love the gardening stores though – just wish I had the back for it and DS had the interest. sigh..
For bad backs and rabbit problems I say go for raised beds. However, that would mean changing what you have. I’m not sure your DS would like that…hehehe. 😉
Welcome to the plantoholics club!
Even though we have a very small garden, now, I still pore over the gardening catalogues and am completely unable to visit a garden centre without a purchase. Jennie and I are going tomorrow (officially to get stuff for her new allotment but…… 🙂
Yeah, I hear that ‘but’ and I know we must be related somewhere back in the lines. There’s something irresistable about healthy young plants all lined up in rows…they scream “take me home!”
How great that you can combine two loves — writing and gardening — in one weekend. My husband always takes care of our garden, but I’ve long wanted to try a couple fruit bushes. Raspberries sound delightful!
I have a thornless raspberry bush, this will be its first year here. My dear sweet cousin C. dug it up for me out in his Mother’s extensive garden when I was up there last summer. They have tons of them and some of the best blueberries I’ve ever pigged out on too. 😉 I lost two of my four blueberry bushes to the harsh winter we had so they are on my to buy list.
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