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lakngulf
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How To Get A Garden To Grow

Just stay gone for more than a week

If I am home I tend to piddle in my garden daily, "helping" it along. Well, I was gone for a few days and I think it does better with me gone. Here are comparison shots, comparing April 20 and April 29

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Got my first blooms on some tomatoes, bean blooms showing and little squash about the size of my pinkie.

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Looking great! :D
...still early here -- tomatoes in the next week... debating with myself if I can sow some squash :wink:

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I am sure your plants love you and need you. It probably was a little warmer while you were gone. It looks great!!

We have been so dry here and it has been warmer during the day, so one starts thinking maybe I could slip something in but the night time temps are still dipping in the 30's and the weeds haven't even started to come up yet in the garden. A very few trees are budding. So I should wait some more. My frost date isn't up until the end of May.

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sweetiepie wrote:I am sure your plants love you and need you. . .
I'm sure that is true, LaknGulf :).

It is that steady growth we miss in our daily attention. They're doing it for us, for them, for the team ;).

Steve

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They were just happy to see you.

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That's certainly the case with orchids. Most orchids are killed by love. They'd rather be left alone for the most part. :lol:

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If I am home I tend to piddle in my garden daily,
Where I came from to piddle was to urinate.
Um ................. ?????

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My use of the word piddle =

to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around):



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