How is your garden looking today?

dammit. I used the bloodmeal as suggested and things were looking really good but then wham! Stepped outside yesterday and my one really big green tomato is lying on the ground with a small chunk eaten out of it.

Plan B went into effect immediately. I'll have to take a picture of what my hubby devised. I DARE any squirrel to get passed it.

Oh yeah, I like to see that picture, eoe!

My garden looks like hell; most of our plants are dead, and many of our bushes were cut back by the contractor to work around our house. It's gonna be two-three months before our yard/garden begins to look half decent, so no pictures now.

Gorgeous photos!

Looking forward to seeing the anti-critter tomato-protector, eoe.

I just went out and snapped a few photos with sozlet's digital -- not great quality but gives an idea...





Photo is dark -- the coleus stands out more IRL. (Coleus, potato vine, impatiens.) In a container on my deck.


This is a weird little area in my backyard -- an old stone low wall and some brick paving underneath, overrun by ivy now. Someone told me it may be where they burned garbage back when the house was built (20's). I like the ruined aspect though I might cut back some of the ivy. The impatiens get big and billowy and the whole thing looks cool in a month or two (I did this last year too), it's early yet and they're kind of lost right now.



Closeup of impatiens with birdbath.

gorgeous !!

Soz! LOOK AT YOU GIRL!!!

I remember when you were just getting started. Love the impatients and birdbath. We have the same type of ivy. Is it Boston? I used to know that but I've forgotten now.
Beautiful shots.

c.i., sorry about the mess. We'll miss your images this year. Maybe later in the season?

Lovely, Soz...

My camera has started working again (just after I bought a replacement, today!)



So with two cameras functioning, I could take some pix tomorrow.

as if anyone cares.

That looks so inviting, sozobe. I would have a lounge chair there to
read a book and take an afternoon nap.

Hey, that's a good idea!

Clear off the "paving" underneath, maybe, put a chair there.

I like.

Right now that's part of the view from our back porch, so that's similar, but it's pretty far away.

I just got in from another marathon session -- this is a nice yard but man it's a lot of work.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone, and eoe, yes, A2K has been such a lifesaver for me, gardening-wise!!! I've learned so much here. Thank you again to everyone who's helped.

It's so great to be able to stay with the same yard for four years now (in July) and really get to know it and start to feel on top of things. There still is so much to do, though. (Weeds have gone bonkers on my slope -- great growing season this year, for everything. Might post before and after pictures.)

Littlek, I've coveted that "lime rickey" plant for a while now, I think I'll get a few soon for my front shady area.

(Not that there really is anyplace that ISN'T shady -- those photos were taken at 11:30 AM on a sunny day!)

Oh and speaking of stuff I've learned here, as of yesterday my oakleaf hydrangea was looking gorgeous and I was musing about how happy I was with it (got it after A2K discussion with many but especially osso and littlek), but today it's cruelly reduced -- evidently a deer was chowing down this morning. Grr.

Why you ornery sidewinder, for two cents I'd........

Too many yee-hah 'merkin pictures here anyways. I bet a bushel of grits to ten gallons of succotash that mah pics gonna kick your sorry ass from here to kingdom come.

Soz, love the ivy patch - do clear out the bird bath every week (empty and refresh) to reduce the number of breeding mosquitoes there.

What did Soz call it?
The tomato critter-ridder?
We'll see...

I love it!

Seems pretty impervious to me...

(How do you get in to grab a tomato for yourselves, though...?)

Oh, that looks pretty good, eoe. I'd be curious to see if it works now.
If one of the squirrels jumps on that thing, it probably would fold, no?

Clever!

Let us know if it works...