How does your Garden grow?

turbo

I hope my garden grows well this year. Amy is going to take all the ghost seeds and see what she can do with them with a heat-mat and grow-light. She was very pleased with the Savina plants that I gave her last season, so I hope we do well with the ghosts. If I have excess garlic (beyond starting them for our needs), I'll get her started on garlic, too.

rhody

I thought of Turbo's Duke when I saw his dog. He certainly is a character, one of a kind, and well respected in his chosen field of gardening. That was refreshing.

Rhody...

turbo

Duke is a gardener. I have to watch him so that he doesn't help himself to the produce.

lisab

How did you train that fly to sit on his nose like that?

turbo

I am a consummate fly-trainer. Flies don't live too long, so the time-windows for training are short.

Those rows behind Duke are filled with Red Russian and White German garlic. He'll help himself to raspberries/blackberries, but he is very good about not stealing produce from the garden. Though when you give him a garlic scape, you should count your fingers afterward.

OmCheeto

I think I have a new hero.

Love his FAQ page:

I used to be so self conscious of what the neighbors thought of me, I asked them what color I should paint my house. (After all, they're the ones that have to look at it.)

His truck garden has just given me an idea of a good use for 3 of my 5 boats.

But with only 4000 ft² to work with, I think they'll all have to go up on the roof.

Borg

A woman who is apparently visiting her grandchildren felt that it was OK to pick the flowers next to our house as they wandered by yesterday and today.

turbo

My wife will gladly give flowers to neighbors and visitors, but wouldn't feel too great about them helping themselves without permission.

Evo

What kind of psycho would pick flowers from a neighbor's yard?

turbo

My thoughts, too. My wife has been building up a collection of perennials to decorate our front lawn. She'll gladly share flowers and split plants for people who want to grow their own, but please don't steal!

rhody

That is no excuse, but logically she may have had dementia, and didn't know any better, Borg said her grandchildren were visiting, but he didn't say they were with her or how old. Just a thought.

Rhody...

Borg

OK, that made me laugh. I don't know what she was thinking but now that we've confronted her, I hope that it won't happen again.

Borg

She was elderly and walking with two children about three and four. I didn't talk to her so I don't know what her mental state is. I suspect that the little girl started picking flowers and grandma may have gotten caught up in the moment. She knows better now I hope. If not, I'm pretty sure about which house they're visiting and I can have a more extensive dicussion with the homeowners.

Astronuc

Maybe she figured that they were natural flowers in the wild, or that you had so many you wouldn't mind if she took a few.

Evo

Yes, suddenly she was no longer in a neighborhood, but in a mountain meadow.

Borg

They were daffodils planted around a tree next to our yard. They took them all.
You're killing me, Evo. You obviously have some strong feelings about flowers.

turbo

OK, that's way over the line.