I ache all over. Driving home my back was in such pain I started to think I may be having a heart attack. How would I differentiate? LOL!
I am covered in mud. My face has it all over. What a mess . I am just a messy gardener. I see other people after a day of gardening and not a hair is out of place.
I left home around noon I think it was. I loaded my husbands trunk up with brugs and he left then I loaded mine up.
These are all seedling that were from last year. They were in gallon cans for over a year. I just ran out of steam last year.
As I looked at the name tags, some are not even mine. Odd crosses too. I had forgotten I had them. Lots of Red crosses too.
I think that pic could be any one of us here! LOL! I have already taken my shower but boy I think I looked just as bad today!
Id get three times that dirty to have a yard as beautiful as yours!!!
Caren
Good greef Kell what dod you do with them all?
My DH did all the hard work. I have no clue why I am dying in pain. He is my champion, my hero.
When the the 2 - 17 year olds I hired to do all the hard work finked out on me last week, it was my DH in 92 degree weather who came and dug out 100 brugs and then rototilled my mess for me.
The week before he had weed whacked all day down there for me. He said I would hurt myself if I tried so he did it all.
I am such a lucky girl to have such a man.
LOL Caren. Thanks so much. This is where I rent 4 plot in a community garden. What a mess. I had not been there from about last October to 3 weeks ago. My Preen failed me and the weeds were as tall as I am in between the brugs. I could have cried. But all the brugs made it over winter wiht no supervision.
Tom came down and whacked them all down!
Look at them.
My son helped for a few hours on Mother's Day. But not enough! LOL He informed me that he hates mud!
Here it is when I got there today.
And when we left hours later, 40 more brugs were planted, watered, fertilized, and preened. We have about 100 left to go.
Plus I planted 10 more tomato plants! I have decided to grow tomatoes for a homeless kitchen. I will have about 40 plants planted soon.
Bless your heart, hope you make it up in the morning.
It ain't fun getting old, but somebodys' got to do it!
Kell,
OMG! I can't believe you! I have never seen so-o-o many at once.........and look at the size of those trunks and all the blooms! That's it, I quit! I'll never have any that look like that. Boo Hoo. Oh, well, it's still fun.
Kell, please post more pics as I (we) always love all your photos. I'd love to see some shots of your whole yard.
I agree with Heavenscent -- what DO you do with all of them?
My mouth is still dropped open so I'll try to get it closed.
Barbara
So, When did you quit your full time job?
Sure was nice of your guys to help you out with your Brug Jungle!! They look like they fared really well over the winter. Maybe those weeds helped protect them some....
Hope your able to move in the morning and Thanks for sharing your Brug Plots with us.
Take
T
W
O
Motrin and get a good nights sleep!!
LOL
All I can say is "holy cow".....
Ahhh, poor Kell! I feel for ya! I have been lugging big pots and sacks of soil around every day this week, I fall into bed, groan as I turn over and then groan again when I get up in the morning again, only to start all over. I am changing things around and getting things into the ground, finally, and am mad at myself that I have too many plants, it's overwhelmong and exhausting! Got a sunburn a couple of times this week, bit by bugs and finally decided to wear socks with my garden shoes cause it was getting harder to scrub the callused feet clean at the end of the day. Wish my DH & DS would help me.
So tomorrow I am off to tour other peoples gardens and only wish mine was done. I am sure I will be walking slow and bringing my Advil just to make it through the day.
Maybe we'll see you?
Kell
maybe you should invest in those pot in pot nursery containers
this is what AM Leonard says about them
PRODUCT FEATURES
The liner pot is perfectly sized so that the rim catches on the socket pot rim, keeping the containers from jamming together. This method combines the advantages of field growing with the convenience of container growing:
• Insulates roots from winter and summer temperature fluctuations.
• Roots grow faster and more densely than above ground systems.
• Plants are ready for harvest quicker than above ground systems, because of healthier root systems.
• Conserves irrigation water.
• Eliminates container blow-over.
• Labor savings over B&B.
• Reduces compaction of surrounding soils, because large equipment isn’t needed to remove plants for use.
• Lighter weight shipping than B&B.• Plants can stay in place until ready to be used.
• Plants can be moved year-round
• Use with our Texel SpinOut Squares to prevent escape roots from binding, preventing future removal of liner pot.
• Poor draining soils may need to have a drainage system installed under the socket pot.
opps
shoulda put the link
http://www.amleo.com/index/item.cgi?cmd=view&Words=ncs15
and they have discounts on large quantities
This message was edited May 21, 2006 6:13 AM
Kell, I can't imagine having that many Brugs and tomatoes, + all the other stuff you grow,do you sell any of it or is it all for personal satisfation. You certainly must have a one-in-a-million husband to do all that work for you, and he had better have some good strong restaints now that you are retired, guess you needed extra time to find more brugs. lol
OMG Kell, that is a bunch of brugs!
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm You have got it bad Lol! I was trying to picture how big the Monster would get if he were a "free range: brug. Treasure that man. Mine will go get the manure and then runs.
What a treasure of a DH you have, as you might have read here here mine killed most of my brugs when I was in the hospital after having a stroke Easter Sunday....
Do you sell any of your brugs Kell ? or cuttings I would be gald pay for some cuttings if you sell some to me.
Elva
oh my goodness Kell! and I was whining about hefting hay bales! That's a lot of work! You have the most darling husband ever! what a sweetheart!
Let me know if you come up this way, I may have to scoot over the hill and hook up with you and Zuzie!
Lali, I answered you on the Rose forum but am coming up on Wednesday to go nursery hopping with Dr. Don and Zuzu. I can't go today but Sue is going too today. Shucks!! You better be coming Wednesday, lady!
Oh Elva, you have had such a hard time. I am sorry. I do not sell my plants and seem to have a hard time getting lots out. I have the best intentions but am very slow. I will be happy to send you some great seeds though, I am drowning in seeds and you have a better chance at getting them from me. I need to get them packaged though. I seem to have no time to do anything.
CC that is so interesting. So the roots can't come out? It doesn't say what size they are. i will say thank goodness I potted them in pots for the dig up was made so much easier to have the roots all comact in the 5 gallon pot then you just chop off the ones coming out.
Oh Gloria I am too old for this. I really am. Too old and too fat.
LOL Kin, my toes are always so dirty, sadly nothing cute about them. I think I should wear socks too, Sue. I am tired of scrubbing them raw trying to get them clean. I often think as I leave home that I hope I do not get in a car accident, forget clean underwear, my feet will be my embarrassment. The soles are a disgrace.
Barbara, my yard is still a mess. I have not gotten it together yet. I haven't even potted up my annual pots yet. I am pathetic. So I have no great photos except of my roses. I have been concentrating on those so far. But I do have a fun photo from the plots. A new seedling. Nothing is holding it up either. My first bloom on it.
THe site said 15 gallon.. very interesting.... hmmmmmmmm
In the catalog they have 15 and 25 gallon......
Oh Kell...I found this thread around 5:30 this morning. I've spent the last few days either packing the co-op or planting. I finally finished the co-op yesterday and spent all day today outside. I took my coffee out this morning at 6:00 and just came in. And I have to say, there was a time when I looked down at my poor aching feet and I thought of you! LOL But my feet did not look anything like yours did. You poor girl...I know you had to have been exhausted....I sure am.
Kell, Do you just put the pot with the brug in the ground? Do you ever cut the bottom out? Cindy
God Bless you and all those tomatoes for the homeless !
I was loving this idea and then it hit me.. what do you do about the holes in the winter? It said you leave the outside part in the ground year round.. That could be dangerous for us
Hello all,
Couldn't help but to notice the pot in pot method. I've been doing that
for several years with my daylilies, as I often take them to the farmer's
market in early summer. I hate the thought of having to dig hoping someone
will buy, so this way they go right back into their holes in the ground.
Very easy, and if you have a handy teenager who will help you move them,
you can just weedeat the area, put the pots back in and presto, nice and neat!
I just loved reading this thread.
Kell, I too had to resort to wearing socks finally. My husband would get so irritated by the looks of my feet in the evenings. They were heavily callosed and the dirt from my gardening shoes would get ground in. I don't know how many times I have run into the house , changed clothes to run to the store, and then while standing in the grocery line, realize that I forgot to wash all the dirt off my hands and arms and legs. My husband now calls before coming home to make sure he gives me enough time to wash the dirt off. I told him if he comes home unexpectedly I don't want to hear any complaints.
Truely the first thing I thought when I saw the mud on your feet and the title of the post was OH NO not the pipes again!! LOL!
I'm sorry if this is WAY off subject, but I have Cannas, Hibiscus and Bougainvilla that I would love to put the pots in the ground. Can these plants be done the same way as the Brugs?
All these plants are in containers, and the wind sure does blow them down easily. This way I could lift them out to shelter them from hurricanes.
Pati
You deserve a medal for those co-ops Brinda! You really do. I plan on cleaning my back porch off of brugs all over in red cups so I too can have my tea out there. The weather is beautiful right now, crisp! Just how I love it.
CC, I tried and tried to find the 25 gallon ones on that site. I am thinking the 25 gallon ones would be good outside of the ground too, they may dry out slower!!
I had a terrible time just finding pots in general. I am not sure if it is me or that site. LOL. I know you are thinking it is YOU Kelley! You know me too well. LOL!! The 15 gallon ones are so reasonable in price! I still am unclear how they work. Do they have holes in them? If so, the brug roots will get out and get out fast. So you would have to at least cut around the outside liner to free it of the roots.
Hi Cindy. I used to cut some big holes around the outside of the pot, but I do not even bother doing that now. The brug roots will come out of the drainage holes premade in them. Then when it is time to dig them up, you just cut with your shovel all around the outside of the pot to sever the escaped roots and the pot pops out of the ground. DO NOT CUT OUT THE BOTTOM. That will defeat the whole idea.
I cannot tell you how great it is if you know you are going to be digging them up. I planted my huge Rosamond like this also but I buried the pot so you couldn't see it. 3 years later I had a guy come dig it out, it was so fast and easy. It was mammoth too. About 25 feet tall.
LOL Kell, I gotta ask.....Easy for you or the guy?
(((Hugs)))
LOL Caren, LOL. Please do not jinx me. I am not allowed near that area anymore and I am afraid to sneak because with my luck I will burst them again and get caught.
Oh Patricia, your DH is tough. I always have dirt all over me. My DH calls me his little mudhen. LOL You know why I am laughing at that one. Sometimes when I look in the mirror I am shocked how my face is covered and I had just been talking to neighbors.
Pati, I do not know why not. I have planted canna in their pots to restrict them because they grow rampant here and will take over an entire bed. I just did some gingers too for the same reason. In the back I did a vine because it had rooted thru the drainage holes into the dirt beneath for several years and I didn't want to sever all those roots. I understand with bougies, they hate to have their roots disturbed, so they may resent having them cut off when you lift them.
LOL Brinda, exactly. But aren't I so nice to make it so easy for them??
Thanks Kell. I'm going to give it a try, especially the Cannas. I was going to actually plant my large Passion vine (small pot), but it not only had rooted through the bottom, it has put up shoots all over my yard. The lawn mower takes care of them, but there's NO WAY even a hurricane could blow that pot away. LOL
Pati
Kell, I was laughing at the first picture because I remember pulling out and pottting up giant ele ears last fall in steady drizzle. I just didn't have the guts to snap a photo of myself decorated in mud. Neighbors and people walking by were staring, at the uprooted ears, yes, but one lady told me the big attraction was me, a grown-up dirtier than any kid she'd ever seen.
I love the upright bloom, that is cool.
I think so many of us gardeners are the same way. What does a little mud hurt huh ! My husband is a wonderful man, so no complaints, but we are total opposites. He hates it when all my brugs. are in full grown because it looks like a jungle, although he loves the smell when he is soaking in his hot tub.
Kell, DH calls me his little mud puppie. I am constantly getting in trouble because I have worn my good shoes out into the garden ( I forget to change). And wooh !! watch out when the heating bill comes in the winter for the greenhouse, and the water bill comes in the summer. But then on the other hand, he hands me $1.500. in travelers checks to spend on my garden this Spring. So I am defininetely not complaining about my man.
Kell you sure like to get into your garden...lol! I tend to get dirty to but like to leave my shoes on so that the bugs don't bite me...lol! The amount of brugs you have simply amazes me! What do you do with all the branches that break off?
;) Donna
