9/28/15

Garden

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.
~Lou Erickson
 







 A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
~May Sarton
 
....and that sums up my garden experience this year.
I have decided that vegetable gardening is not for me. My life is simply too busy with more interesting things than weeding. I refuse to use chemicals and so...the weeds win again. My flowers did awesome but my veggies became overtaken by weeds. I was just too busy enjoying my family and what Montana has to offer in the summer time that the weeds moved right in. That's ok. Next year I will be supporting the local farmers market, maybe even do a CSA again.

 

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  1. That is the same reason I don't have a vegetable garden...my summers are simply too busy to find time to fight the weeds. Your flowers are stunning!!! xoxo

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    1. Thank you Erica, summer is just to short to be fighting with weeds.

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  2. You more than made up with it with your flowers. I've never gotten into gardening either. It sounds promising but with my outdoor kitties, I just don't think it would be a good match.

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    1. Thank you Candace- yes the flowers and I get along very well.

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  3. As always, your pictures are amazing. Too bad the weeds won this year :)

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    1. Thank you - yep the weeds won- next year there will only be flowers.

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  4. what a lovely philosophical approach. Weeds won again in my world, too. (Mosquitoes also won and drove me indoors.)

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    1. Oh no not hose pesky mosquitoes! Yep, sometimes you just have to know when to throw in the towel :)

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  5. Oh those pesky weeds, they are taking over my herb bed at the moment and my ground is so wet from all the rain that I never got a fall garden in the ground. Looks like both of us will be at the market :)

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    1. Sounds like fun meeting you at the market Tracey- too bad we don't live closer.

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  6. I can almost smell those flowers. Thank you for sharing them.

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  7. Never mind about the veggies, your beautiful flowers more than make up for them! x

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    1. Thank you Donna- yes, the flowers brought much gladness, veggies - smedgies.

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  8. I hear you :). Sometimes I feel like I am loosing the battle......

    Your flowers are beautiful, I hope they were worth the time and effort.

    Love the new layout.

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    1. Yes, flowers are really worth the effort- and they brighten my indoors with a bouquet too. Thank you- loving the new layout too- time for a change.

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  9. Your flowers are lovely, I have never tried to grow flowers. I have tried the veggie thing and for me to time and lack of knowledge made them a bit of a failure!!

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    1. Thank you Linda, there is affair amount of time invested I a veggie garden if you want it to work out- at least in my case, I don't have it in me.

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  10. your flowers are lovely! I am not big on weeding either- I find I have better luck with cherry tomatoes, some herbs that can get a little wild, and kale. kale seems to be able to handle itself.

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    1. Yes to herbs and tomatoes- next year in containers on my porch where the weeds can't reach them.

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  11. I hear you : ) As much as I want to be a vegetable garden girl, I can't seem to be one. I'm banking on the hopes it will happen eventually, maybe. XO ps. beautiful, beautiful photos! the colours are staggering.

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    1. ...and that is just it- I wish I was a veggie girl- but I'm a flower girl and I guess that's ok. Maybe edible flowers next year he.he.

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  12. I'd say your garden is beautiful! we only had flowers this year, we didn't have the time or inclination to put in a veg garden (wedding....). Next year for sure!

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  13. Love love flowers. I also love the tilt shift you've got going on in your photos. Really neat effect!!!

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  14. My thoughts entirely ... we can't all be self sufficient, local growers need someone to sell to!

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