Dahlias from the garden
And Queen Anne's Lace
It makes me nuts that the rain here makes my tall plants lay down, next year I have to stake everything up using chicken wire and posts, I will put the wire horizontal to the plants and they grow up through it. I also plan to buy metal cattle panels to stand beside my sunflowers and tie them to it and keep the fox scent in the garden to keep them critters out. The squirrels are RUINING my tomatos and my sunflowers- the little .... varmints (insert VERY mad face here) You see, bugs I can deal with because I have experience with those,(Spray spray spray) but the rain laying my plants over and the squirrels are 2 new things I have to learn to battle. ARGH!
Cucumbers..... yummy!
Kay finished the wall around my herbs and it turned out pretty nice! This fall we will be adding dirt, compost etc to the right side of the inside of the bed in the photo to bring the ground level even. We will start on the raised beds this fall after school starts Aug 23rd.
It isnt round its acutally octagon shaped and its beautiful and larger in real life than it looks here! The very tall plants on the left are Amaranth.
How does your garden grow this summer?
Squirrels! They are making me nuts this year too! They have completely emptied 3 pots and partially emptied another 2--I think I have them under control now though. Ropel works well and I've also tried dried blood, which did okay too. It's the reapplying after it rains that gets me as it always seems to rain 1-2 days after I'v espent half the day applying. Lol! My neighbor ties his cucumbers up on a cow fence panel also and it appears to work wonderfully for him--they take up less space, don't seem to have cucmber beetles and great productivity.
Your garden is beautiful! Don't get discouraged.
Posted by: margot | July 30, 2007 at 08:24 AM
Hey Gwen! Your garden is beautiful!
I have TAGGED you so go check it out on my blog!
~Lorrie
Posted by: Lorrie Simons | July 29, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Oh Gwen, the dahlias are GORGEOUS!
Those have always been one of my fav flowers, and these are SO beautiful...do you remember the name of this particular color?
By the way, do you think fox scent would work on racoons, we have FOUR large ones going in the shop eating our CAT FOOD! The poor cats and my BUDGET have HAD it! LOL!
Hugs
Linda
Posted by: Linda Gilliam | July 29, 2007 at 09:37 AM