08-07-2022, 01:31 PM
(07-31-2022, 02:12 PM)davidd Wrote: You must spend hours each day tending your flowers, plants, and vegetables.It is quite a bit of work... more now that I'm freezing a lot of veggies for winter. I am watering every other day because it's been hot for days. Then there's deadheading, and weeding, and I made more work for myself this year by trying broccoli, and this brings hours of picking off caterpillars

If the mosquitoes don't make it impossible I hope to get some pix in the "old" veg garden, which has really got somewhat out of control. It's a bit of a jungle at the moment.
(08-01-2022, 05:27 AM)dargosmydaddy Wrote: Lea and the Beanstalk would be a fun story. She looks proud of herself for reaching the top, as well she should.Well, there are beans too, so she could climb them
I think I've had her climbing the sunflowers in the past; they're bigger...More dolls gardening.
Last year when Red was here there was a pumpkin big enough for her to sit on. This year I'm still trying to get one of the flowers to "take"
0 for 3 so far. Apparently I am not getting up early enough to pollinate them?? 


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