Good day friends, madgardener poking her face over the garden hedge on this bright and sunny Spring day that here in upper Northeastern Tennessee is TOO warm and it's forcing the blooming trees to fast forwards. I will write of them in a later post. Right now I wanted to just say that recently I've noticed here on wreck gardens that when me or anyone answers a question (a sincere one, not a troll who is trying to pick a fight amongst us) it goes usually where it goes. They are appreciative or they are dubious or someone decides they need to just "come for an argument" in the words of the old Monty Python skit..........I don't mind the questions or doubts, and over the course of years and with my aging and maturity (still working on it all day by day as are we all) I don't tend to let the arguments bother me as much anymore, I overlook the goads and move on.
But I recently as you may or may not have seen, answered someone's question regarding Japanese beetle erradication. I realize that this person has trees now, (fast reading late at night and reading glasses that need upgrading and older eyes that have now had cataracts taken off and fixed partially) and that hand picking was absolutely out of the question. My observation though was this person decided that I was fulla shit. that I hadn't had experiences personally with Japanese beetles, not seen one up close and although correct about my "verbose trilogy" regarding the containers (we all know I am long winded and write rambles!! LOL) that I was paraphrasing the advice to them. well, as some of you older residents know, if I DO quote someone elses experiences, I tend to give credit where credit is due. '
I guess I should just take it on the chin and move on with the container gardening that I am forced to do while I am living in someone elses home. I am still renting and my pleasures of gardening is strictly in many, many containers of perennials, bulbs and a few shrubs. But it doesn't void my previous experiences I had extensively when I lived in Faerie Holler over in Dandridge for almost 14 years. I still compost, I still do raised bed gardening. I still grow perennials, houseplants, cacti and succulents, blooming shrubs although in large containers now instead of them planted in the ground because I am renting right now, and I still even grow vegetables in containers in spite of previously having land to garden on. It was easier to grow some things in containers for me even in my former Faerie Holler.
I guess I just needed to validate that I am who I say I am, done what I say I've done and there are those out there who know this and who lurk. And I don't take myself too seriously except I don't offer solutions unless I KNOW they are proven and tried. I will write a ramble soon about the goings on here in upper Northeastern Tennessee where the blooming trees are unseasonably doing their thing right now..
madgardener, gardening in zone 7a, Sunset zone 36 in downtown Greeneville, TN.