More tips and junk in the garden

Ever notice when you return after even a short vacation, that your garden looks like it's gone crazy on you?

June

August

Water tip - load your veggies with water daily and you'll have the sweetest produce EVER. The lettuce is amazing this year. It's so crispy and so perfect it looks fake.

May - dreary.

August - what wheelbarrow?

Flower planting tip - stuff your planting areas silly so you get a grand overgrown type of explosion when your flowers are at their best.

Container planting tip - drill holes, then cover the holes with rocks before adding your soil to provide the best drainage possible.

Shelter tip - try planting some flowers near something else that offers partial shade so your flowers survive the hottest part of summer, as well as protection from heavy rain.

The grapevine has made a big impact on how well this wheelbarrow gone mad is doing. I have to keep snapping new growth back, but it's worth the tinkering. The planter looks amazing.

I added the old wagon wheel for abit of extra junk appeal. :) Notice the status is being held upright by the handles from the wheelbarrow?

Pea planting tip - snap peas are cool.. you get flowers first, then food! :)

Did you know snap peas bloom before bringing you pods? I didn't! What a bonus!

The peas went so crazy on me, I needed to borrow one of my old rusty headboards to hold them up!

May ho hum.

August awesomeness.

But not everything went flawless in the garden this year. My lovely row of deep garnet geraniums (below) simply stopped blooming. The green was gorgeous but the blooms went bye bye.

Annoyed, I started chemical feeding them with the plan on doing it once a week. And watched them daily to see if there would be progress.

Week one (above) - the entire bush was littered with the buds!

Week 2-3 (above) - in full bloom! 

Holey chemical feed, this stuff really works! 

Flower blooming tip - keep those pretty blooms booming with chemical feeder once a week.  (I used Miracle Grow, mix granules with water)

My sweet neighbour Kenny watered all these flowers and veggies while we were camping. I'm paying him back with some chocolate bars and gum. Don't kids take the coolest payment ever? :)

How's your own garden progressing? 
How do you keep your flowers blooming?

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In other news...


I'm back in the saddle this week. I feel like I've missed so much! Thanks for allowing me to enjoy my little holiday with my son. :) Stories and pics to soon follow. We did start a new DIY project just today so more on that too!

Thanks for the amazing SNS these past two weekends!  Scroll down or click HERE to visit all the incredible projects.  There are TONS!  Next weekend is kitchen islands.

And how's your Gitter Done project coming along??? Linkup goes up late Tuesday night. See ya then!