Don't let the rain stop you!

So it's June 28, and the rains continue in CT. Last Friday, I took the day off and hired two guys to help with heavy stuff in the yard - my knee is being annoying - and it didn't rain, happily for me. On and off rain over the week-end which was terrific for new transplants.

Saturday nice enough to go to the White Flower Farm sale, from which Rodgersias, hellebores, and a few annuals for containers followed me home. Hellebores and annuals were just $2 each. Rodgersias.... well, not. The rains began again Sunday, keeping sale plants & all those others waiting to be planted nicely moist. I weeded around the patio yet again, holding a beach umbrella. Weeds sure do come out easily in the rain, but how nuts did I look?

Oh well, the yard is pretty private and in any case, I guess I'm happy to be a crazy gardener lady.

I can relate, Ifonly. Still have pots of annuals to plant- but scared tht once they go in the ground they will drown!

Why is it that when I am out in the front yard with my head almost on the ground, my end up in the air, THAT is the exact moment someone I know comes by?

That's only a bad thing if they have anything negative to say about your end. One neighbor loves doing it to me and she's a broad beam to speak about anyone else! Isn't it always that way though?

I believe that our flowers love the rain, but I have come to realize the weeds love it MORE!!
I don't have time for anything else lately, when it IS sunny I'm weeding not planting. I use to love a rainy day to curl up w/a good book or a movie. I don't like T.V. anymore and I hate to read now!!!!!
Sorry, just venting. I am getting soooooo fustrated! I mean how many times can you plant your beans??

It is frustrating! Maddening!

"I'm going to write a letter and complain!"

Please do! And go ahead and sign my name....TWICE!

I will! So there!

pirl,
Have you got your "Daughter of Neptune" out yet??? I opened a thread hoping people would post pictures of their garden statues, arbors, ect. Naturally I mentioned that I hoped you would post a picture of her as she is one that has stuck in my mind when I think of beautiful garden statues. Here is the link if you find the time.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/619921/

Hi Celeste!
No, she's still in the closet! Honestly! I'll go looking for a plant for her tomorrow and set her up and post a photo. Thanks for the reminder or she might have stayed in there all summer long!

Kind of you to think of me. Thanks.

I'd like to add my name to the letter of complaint about the weather!! AAARRRGGGGHHH!! So there!

Speaking of replanting beans, my pole beans got half eaten last night and my broccoli was completely mowed.

Maybe I'll try broccoli again for the fall

I need a garden sculpture of Noah's Ark. Neptune sounds good though!

I will add your name to the letter!

The earwigs feasted on the zinnias I tended for 8 weeks in the basement, under lights, and because of them if a recipe calls for half a leaf of basil OH BOY do I have lots of half leaves!

We're left with one red cabbage plant out of all I planted.

Neptune got on the Ark yesterday and his daughter, Undine (the face sculpture from Winterthur Museum - who's in the closet - and how can we blame her for that!) is coming out of the closet with a rain hat and umbrella!!! So there! :-)

LOL I hope you'll post pictures of that. Hopefully they're heavy enough not to float away!

I can't imagine how desperate we'd be if we had to depend on ourselves for food for the rest of the year. Pretty sobering thought, and it gives me a lot of appreciation for our forebears and farmers.

I applaud the farmers year in and year out!

Pirl I loved the 1/2 leaf of basil line! Put me on the complaint letter. My shrub rose blossoms have been rotting on the plant.
If I had to feed myself from my garden....I'd be much thinner.

Ah! I have a great recipe for twigs and half a basil leaf!

Another signature coming up! My beans and eggplants are a real mess, celery seems to be dying, Alpine strawberries rotting on the plant, etc.,etc.
I talked to a sales rep today who lives in CT and he was telling me that his prize lilacs are rotting at the soil line and falling over. The only things that seem to be doing well in all this are the weeds, cilantro, and the slugs.

I think " Cilantro and the slugs" would be a great name for a band!

Could the swarms of earwigs be the back up for the group?

Or maybe, "Moss and Mildew" coming next to your theatre?

Ooooh, don't tell me. They're a "Salsa" band, right? (Yeah, I know you're all groaning ----- just couldn't resist that one.)

While the band and movie stars are in town they'll be staying at the Dew Drop Inn Motel and Swamp. Free parking in the bogs and muck.

I thought Bogs and Muck was a new comedy team

ROTFLOL Thanks for the laughs....

Ivy - were they related to Muck and Mire?

of course.

Add me to the weather letter! The heavy rain beat the heck out of my gorgeous Nikko Blue hydrangea. We won't talk about the flood in the synagogue that meant calling in a disaster team. And for weeks now we've been rained out of putting up landscaping edging blocks around the rhodies and azaleas so we can mulch them before the real heat comes. I think we'll have about 2 hr on Sunday to get it all done.. maybe.

Cilantro and the Escargot (French/Mexican restaurant?)
Toadstool and thr Fun Guy (fungi)

groan :)

Fun Guy? Oh, poor Dave. Maybe you're breathing in too much Eau de Swamp?

I love the Northeast Gardening group! I don't go looking at other areas but I love this group. I don't see a nasty person, a mean response: JOY!

I agree!

I agree too. I visit several forums and there are wonderful people on them,
but this always feels like home to me.

I wish I could take you guys out in the garden with me! I guess I would get even less done though.....dragging the computer around....

Hmmm.....I wonder if someday this could be done via ipods?

Anyhow, if any of you are ever way out east (North Fork, not the Hamptons) and would like to visit I'd love to meet you.

We are all having a beautiful sunny day, today, aren't we?

Not like other areas where the people have said they have to be in by 9 AM or be burnt to a crisp! Hurray for New England and yes, I'm including Long Island!

Same goes for me, anybody coming in for a trip to Mystic, drop in. We don't have a big mansion , but we're happy to have an excuse to make some lemonade.

Arlene. I think Ivy is more "way out east" than you??

Very tempting but we just returned via the ferry!

Dave - we cross posted. Ivy's invitation was tempting to me.

Actually we're not much more western than Ivy. I'll find a map, with luck, that shows both of our towns and send a link.

I think you are under us, if memory serves.... I looked you up on a map once.

Do you pronounce it South-old or South-hold?

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South-old with the accent on the South.

Originally it was named after the English town of Southwold - south woods.

I got it- that makes sense now. Like the Cotswolds. Though I have no idea what Cots means....

Neither do I.

On Cape Cod, at the information booth at Eastham, I pronounced the name wrong as Easthm (hard to do it in print) but I put the accent on the East portion. The lady was very sweet and corrected me: East-ham. But a few miles south is Chatham and it's not CHAT-ham. So confusing!