Comments on: Grading the Summer Garden http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:41:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Colleen Vanderlinden http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Colleen Vanderlinden Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:22:42 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-449 Thanks so much, Chloe! I've been battling my shady lot here, too. I have a couple spots that get full sun, and they're jam-packed with plants. I love my trees, but I do envy my tree-less neighbors at times :-) Thanks for stopping by! Thanks so much, Chloe! I’ve been battling my shady lot here, too. I have a couple spots that get full sun, and they’re jam-packed with plants. I love my trees, but I do envy my tree-less neighbors at times :-)

Thanks for stopping by!

]]> By: Colleen Vanderlinden http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Colleen Vanderlinden Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:19:33 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-448 Hi Kim! Thanks :-) Honestly, pole beans are really, really easy. You have to make sure you have support for them, of course, but other than that they are super-easy. And unless Coco can jump eight to ten feet in the air, you should at least get a few beans ;-) Balance is always hard. The good news is that sometimes life is supposed to be unbalanced! A new relationship is a beautiful thing, and takes time to nourish. Don't worry about the garden, there's always next year! (And congrats on the new boyfriend -- so happy for you!) Hi Kim!
Thanks :-) Honestly, pole beans are really, really easy. You have to make sure you have support for them, of course, but other than that they are super-easy. And unless Coco can jump eight to ten feet in the air, you should at least get a few beans ;-)

Balance is always hard. The good news is that sometimes life is supposed to be unbalanced! A new relationship is a beautiful thing, and takes time to nourish. Don’t worry about the garden, there’s always next year! (And congrats on the new boyfriend — so happy for you!)

]]> By: Blackswampgirl Kim http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Blackswampgirl Kim Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:10:01 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-447 Colleen, it's SO GOOD to have you back!!! :) I have to ask: Was it pretty easy to grow the pole beans? I've only ever done bush beans, but... well, since a certain canine in my household L-O-V-E-S green beans almost as much as she loves to eat my tomatoes, I'm considering a switch for next year. (Thinking that she can have the beans on the lower half, and I'll still get some from the top!) Any advice/thoughts? As far as my garden goes this year, it was mostly a FAIL. I need to figure out how better to balance having a boyfriend with whom I like to do lots of things (bike rides, volleyball games, etc.) and still getting essential things (veggie gardening, cleaning) done around my place. Ah well, it was our first year... I'll be better next year, right? :( Colleen, it’s SO GOOD to have you back!!! :)

I have to ask: Was it pretty easy to grow the pole beans? I’ve only ever done bush beans, but… well, since a certain canine in my household L-O-V-E-S green beans almost as much as she loves to eat my tomatoes, I’m considering a switch for next year. (Thinking that she can have the beans on the lower half, and I’ll still get some from the top!) Any advice/thoughts?

As far as my garden goes this year, it was mostly a FAIL. I need to figure out how better to balance having a boyfriend with whom I like to do lots of things (bike rides, volleyball games, etc.) and still getting essential things (veggie gardening, cleaning) done around my place. Ah well, it was our first year… I’ll be better next year, right? :(

]]> By: Chloe http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Chloe Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:09:39 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-446 Well all my success stories belong to my clients... I have way too much shade for vegetables in my own garden. A tree fell in March and I have been scoping out a place where the sun peeks in... still don't think it gets enough hours for veggies but going to try herbs next year... perhaps a basil hedge around the patio since its off my kitchen and layer a few others from there. Colleen... if I had your tomatoes, carrots and beans... even the beanstalks... I would be doing a veggie dance! This was a great post! I'll be back! Well all my success stories belong to my clients… I have way too much shade for vegetables in my own garden. A tree fell in March and I have been scoping out a place where the sun peeks in… still don’t think it gets enough hours for veggies but going to try herbs next year… perhaps a basil hedge around the patio since its off my kitchen and layer a few others from there. Colleen… if I had your tomatoes, carrots and beans… even the beanstalks… I would be doing a veggie dance! This was a great post! I’ll be back!

]]> By: Colleen Vanderlinden http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Colleen Vanderlinden Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:47:27 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-445 Hi Sunita, Well, now I do feel better :-) Thank you for commenting! Hi Sunita,

Well, now I do feel better :-)

Thank you for commenting!

]]> By: Sunita http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Sunita Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:43:25 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-444 Never mind Colleen, you can just comfort yourself thinking that you're doing it the Mumbai way. Cucumbers are never grown on a trellis here. Its always rambling all over the ground. Those tomatoes look so tempting! Never mind Colleen, you can just comfort yourself thinking that you’re doing it the Mumbai way. Cucumbers are never grown on a trellis here. Its always rambling all over the ground.
Those tomatoes look so tempting!

]]> By: Colleen Vanderlinden http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Colleen Vanderlinden Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:16:12 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-443 Hi Pat, I am with you on the herbs! I want to expand my herb garden next year, I think. I was lucky -- no blight here, though a few of my tomatoes limped along with Septoria this year. What happened to your coles? The cabbage worms devoured my early broccoli, which was beyond annoying! Thanks so much for commenting! Hi Pat,
I am with you on the herbs! I want to expand my herb garden next year, I think. I was lucky — no blight here, though a few of my tomatoes limped along with Septoria this year. What happened to your coles? The cabbage worms devoured my early broccoli, which was beyond annoying!

Thanks so much for commenting!

]]> By: commonweeder http://inthegardenonline.com/main/2009/09/grading-the-summer-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-442 commonweeder Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:10:03 +0000 http://inthegardenonline.com/main/?p=907#comment-442 One garden success is that not ALL the tomatoes were hit by Late Blight. The others are lots of pole beans, sugar snap peas, lettuce and the at last arrival of zucchini. The herbs all did great in front of the house which means a bigger financial saving that you might think. No $2 bunches of parsley, basil, cilantro and sage from the market. Failures: all the coles which is odd considering the cold year we've had. One garden success is that not ALL the tomatoes were hit by Late Blight. The others are lots of pole beans, sugar snap peas, lettuce and the at last arrival of zucchini. The herbs all did great in front of the house which means a bigger financial saving that you might think. No $2 bunches of parsley, basil, cilantro and sage from the market. Failures: all the coles which is odd considering the cold year we’ve had.

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