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Plants in my Garden: lots of flowers, tomatoes, okra, eggplant, cukes, squash, bell pepper, hot peppers , angel trumpets, plumbago, roses, petunias, zinnias, glads,, rosemary, daylilies
Favorite Aspect of Gardening: being outdoors
If I'm not in my garden, I can usually be found: at Lowe's
Occupation: Office Manager
carolyncat353
Member Since: 4/29/2008
Last Seen: 9 hours ago
About carolyncat353
55 years old-Involved in gardening since very young. My grandfather farmed 2 acres of every vegetable imaginable, along with fruit trees, nut trees and flowers. Summers were spent harvesting, canning and freezing vegetables. Although I live in a town environment, I still have a vegetable garden and lots of plants and flowers, along with 2 cats and a granddog.
I have one son who is in the military. Recently ended up with one grandog and 2 new kittens. I'm Office Mangler (no misspell) for a Sheet Metal shop for the last 19 years, and it's getting old! Anyway, I have a few friends that are gardeners, but most just watch. I lost 3 pets in 4 months and was a mess. Everytime I talked with my son I was crying until he finally said "Mom, go plant your garden and start new plants. It's what you do best" S0OO, I've thrown myself into gardening again-and it's looking good!
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Recent Blog Entries
Whew-I've been busy these last few days! We have had rain off and on, so every thing seems to be holding it's own! I started clearing a little bit of brush where the majority of my daylilies are and it turned major. Vines (including the dreaded HY...
Going Slow
You can tell it's almost mid summer here. My garden is still producing, although slow, which is ok! It's hot! I have some very small canteloupe, that I hope make it. It's not in a garden area-seeds I planted where I used to have a tree. I have be...
Folklore Cures
Hi Gang! Not much has changed garden wise here. Flowers are still growing, although s l o w l y, and still making peppers & eggplants and the new cukes are finally starting to vine, and the squash are starting to bloom. We'll see! My mountain of ...
Weekend Sales
I finally remembered to go the the Farmer's Market in Lake Charles before noon on Saturday. Wow-lots of veggies and jams & jellies & cakes (taste tested zucchini-chocolate chip cake) & plants & pickled anything & aprons & throws...Whew! And Ruston,...
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Coral Berry - I am raising this one in a pot, but I have a volunteer in the ground near my house that survived the winter. The plant makes the small whitish/yellow flowers that eventually become the berries. The berries last about a year, befor...
