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Please share in comments: What's blooming in your garden now? Or what are you potting in your containers?
A Fall Garden Promise
in fall, gardening, hospitality, Mums, pumpkin patch, pumpkins, southern, by Linda A Kinsman, Monday, September 29, 2014
October is knocking on the door and I for one am thrilled to
see summer fade away. Good bye hot and humid days, good bye endless mowing
sessions, good bye weeding… oh wait; I still have to weed in the fall.
Goodbye ugly, over grown flowerbeds, goodbye stringy tomato
vines. I bid you all farewell with an apology for not doing what a garden
loving lady should have in summer.
I neglected you and
it shows. I was too busy in here, writing and growing my business to take care
of you. I would be appalled if company were
to saunter up my walk today and see the state of my flowerbeds; so please don’t
come over just yet.
I’m going to get things whipped into shape for fall. Then
you can come over! I’ll scrub the front porch and rockers and I’ll plant Mums
in my pots and allow my poor, worn out wave Petunia’s to finally rest.
I’ll weed and pull up that old Rose bush I keep saying I’m
going too. I’ll turn over the mulch and add some new and I’ll put in my new
solar landscape lights. The front yard is going to look great when I’m done.
I’ll clean off the back deck one more time and invite you to
sit, have some tea and chat a while. And while you do, you can see my lovingly
tended shade flower beds, full of neatly groomed Azalea bushes and Hosta. You
may even catch the faint scent of my Rosemary, still doing well in her pretty
blue pot.
Once our cups are empty, we’ll take a leisurely stroll
towards my pumpkin patch, the one crop that seems to thrive without any love
and care from me. Okay, sure, it is an accidental pumpkin patch. One we never
dreamed would take root right on the fringe of our burn pile/bone-fire spot.
We chucked our old pumpkins there last year and voila! Here
it is, producing small little pumpkins of happiness. We were able to cut one,
tie a pretty bow on it and give it to our new neighbors in a true show of
southern hospitality. Thank you accidental pumpkin patch for coming through!
Hopefully, these pumpkins and my fall gardening efforts will
be enough to make up for my summer of garden laziness. Now that fall is here, I'm going to be ready for company.
Please share in comments: Did you have a productive and happy
summer gardening season, or did you get
too busy like me?