2025 52 Card Project: Week 19: Garden
May. 16th, 2025 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrJust as I did last week, I stuffed this week's collage with color, as this is about the garden I put in this week. Each year I tell myself, "I'm going to scale it back!" and usually I don't.
Well, it is a little smaller. I did not plant my big City Picker planters. I will still put kale and Swiss chard in one. I limited myself on tomatoes to just two plants in smaller pots. I have about given up because the squirrels get so many of the tomatoes and the ones left are usually afflicted with blossom rot. But as I do every year, I have put geraniums by the front door, herb pots on the back porch, a hanging pot of lobelia by the back door, and petunias in the four planters on the back patio.
The lilacs are blooming (Rob planted that bush over thirty years ago), as well as the bleeding hearts, and bunnies sit in the yard every day.
It is a lot of work, and I always grumble about the work and the cost. But I am always so happy when I get it done.
Description: Background: a riot of colors from flowers. Lower left: a crouching bunny. Lower right: a terra cotta pot planted with basil and a tomato plant. Center: a row of herb pots. Upper third: a white planter planted with multicolored petunias
Garden
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Well, it is a little smaller. I did not plant my big City Picker planters. I will still put kale and Swiss chard in one. I limited myself on tomatoes to just two plants in smaller pots. I have about given up because the squirrels get so many of the tomatoes and the ones left are usually afflicted with blossom rot. But as I do every year, I have put geraniums by the front door, herb pots on the back porch, a hanging pot of lobelia by the back door, and petunias in the four planters on the back patio.
The lilacs are blooming (Rob planted that bush over thirty years ago), as well as the bleeding hearts, and bunnies sit in the yard every day.
It is a lot of work, and I always grumble about the work and the cost. But I am always so happy when I get it done.
Description: Background: a riot of colors from flowers. Lower left: a crouching bunny. Lower right: a terra cotta pot planted with basil and a tomato plant. Center: a row of herb pots. Upper third: a white planter planted with multicolored petunias
Click on the links to see the 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
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Date: 2025-05-16 07:52 pm (UTC)I haven't put in tomatoes for some years now, but I remember the frustration at their habit of taking a single bite from one and leaving it. The common wisdom at the time was that squirrels do that because they're thirsty, but I had bird baths with clean water. They do it because they're squirrels. It might taste better this time! It might really be something else! Same reason they dig up the winter aconite, go, "Ewwww, poison!" and dig it up again repeatedly.
P.