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 Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:40 pm
Today i was looking at my dead marigolds, wondering what went wrong..What made them choose death over me being their gardener ;_;
But this year was a good year, my fern is growing out of control, i have 3 baby trees coming along, i have some grass coming up in my back yard and a tree baring inedible fruit ^^
Discuss Hobbit lovers:
* Did you have a plant commit suicide this year?
* Are there any you're happy about?
* Are there any taking over your garden?
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:43 pm
oh plenty of dead plants.
My strawberries drank the fruit punch and committed mass suicide. Lost too many vegetables to name.
My basil pulled a jesus trick and came back after I thought it was dead. This pleases me. I think that would be one of my happier moments.
I'm definitely wicked happy about having corn.
The only thing taking over my garden is weeds.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:47 pm
My dohickies in the big planter box died. They were nice and beautiful and boof! shriveled up and died. Buggers. But now I have a purple thingamajig in the pot with nice beautiful green creeper plants with small pretty white flowers. You can see it in the background in the pictures. (I'm all picture-y because I'm organizing my 7k+ photos right now >_<)   So beautiful and now THEY'RE DEAD.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:50 pm
onicoe My basil pulled a jesus trick and came back after I thought it was dead. My basil always dies on me. emo
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:32 am
Pirhan, your big purple things in the pictures are celosia---they're an annual, they're supposed to set seed and die! So you didn't kill them, and they should be cheap in the spring if you want to pick up some more. Most people grow them just to keep the "flowers" through the winter.
As for dead plants, I probably lost more than anyone here. Between the ice storms and the weird spring, I lost all the fruit trees---they were just starting out---2 each of apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, sweet cherries, apricots, figs. Then the grapes---6 each Cabernet Sauvignon& Chardonnay, 6 each red, pink,purple, and green seedless grapes, 2 Moore's Diamond grapes, 4 other wine grapes. Plus 2 Southern Magnolias crying , half of the perennials in a 300' x 5' bed. Most of the perennial herbs bit the dust, although there are a few chives and garlic chives, some oregano, some sage, and some lavender left. It was so muddy for so long that a vegetable garden really didn't happen, either, although there are some pumpkins growing.
The wild blackberries absolutely went crazy though.
I'm hoping for a better year next year. Considering the weather we have had this past year, I'm really fortunate to even have a house! biggrin Now that would have been really tough to replace! Having lost a house in a fire years ago, that is something I never want to deal with again. Many of the people who lost homes to the tornado here in May are still trying to get back on their feet.
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:37 am
My (mom's) tomato plant popped out one tomato (which got eaten by birds) and then dried up stressed My cantaloupes died when I didn't water them for the three days my mom was in the hospital, as did all of her cucumber vines.. Hmm.. I'm really happy with the banana tree I got Mom for mother's day; I thought it was going to die for a while when some disease started turning the leaves black, but I gave it a "hair" cut and it's doing beautifully now! My one surviving watermelon vine went rampant eek Only one watermelon is getting big, but the vine is growing wild.
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:06 pm
Artistic Mystic My (mom's) tomato plant popped out one tomato (which got eaten by birds) and then dried up stressed My cantaloupes died when I didn't water them for the three days my mom was in the hospital, as did all of her cucumber vines.. Hmm.. I'm really happy with the banana tree I got Mom for mother's day; I thought it was going to die for a while when some disease started turning the leaves black, but I gave it a "hair" cut and it's doing beautifully now! My one surviving watermelon vine went rampant eek Only one watermelon is getting big, but the vine is growing wild. Haha! All your garden belongs to the watermelon XD
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