yardgranny6's Blog

Beautiful Morning
Oct 13, 2007 | 12:49 PM PST
Tags: Tubers , Thorns , Present , broken pots , Pansies , truckin'

in my garden today!  My neighbor came over and helped empty another load of mulch this morning. Looks like we will need TWO more loads to finish off the area between our houses. We dug out 4 big Smilax tubers while we were getting the site ready. Smilax is a big problem to garden lovers here is SC. They have enormous tubers anywhere from two feet to 6 feet and so hard to dig out. They vine into the trees over any building and hang on with strong tendrils. The stems are very thorny, some with briar like effects and other like gigantic rose thorns. They do hurt if you grab one unexpectantly. They almost make a bruise if the thorn is big enough. A friend took a picture of one he dug out, said he thought it looked like a body. OOOOHHHH shades of Halloween.

Then later my neighbor brought me a present. We have a really nice Farmers Market here and she has been talking to one of the vendors. He has given her a number of clay type pots that were cracked or the bottoms were out and she has put them in her garden. Well today she brought me one from his booth. Will take some pictures of her pots and mine too. By next year when the plants/flowers are in full swing, no one will ever know they are cracked.

Finished putting out my pansies today. I have always put out a few and this year since I was cleaning and transplanting the corner of my biggest bed, I decided to do a larager area and use two flats. Added three snapdragons also. Trying to hold down the dollar spending while standing in a football field of flowers is very hard to do. But I checked myself this year. (so far)

So Monday we go trucking for mulch again. Glad it is cooler as the ole truck's air conditioner is out. And the windsheild wipers have to be "plucked" from the outside to get them jump started. I love that ole truck, it still runs and keeps on running. Thank goodness.

More to Come Later