I’m NOT a failure. I discovered today that I have NOT been a failure for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS!
\nWhen we first moved here, and I started the gardens, I tried to grow morning glories, so that they would grow up over wild shrubs and give us more color during the summer. I scarred or cracked the shell of the seed. I soaked them overnight. I tried strewing seed in November so that they would start naturally in the spring. Nothing I did seemed to work.
\nI assumed that I had done something wrong. Not once in all that time have I been able to get morning glories to grow in my gardens.
\nWell, this year, I bought two pots of them, already started. One was a smaller plant, the other was a 6 or 8″ pot that had several plants started. I took them out to the east driveway garden and planted them. Both had something to climb, and lots of mulch around them. I watered them every other day.
\nToday, as I drove by on the way to the garage, I looked over at the garden and something was missing. The supports were all there. The mulch was there…..
\nBut, where there SHOULD have been two healthy growing morning glories…..NOTHING!
\nSome wretched furry creature has eaten seventeen years of morning glories right to the ground! Some miserable varmint had himself a great salad last night! There’s NOTHING left….of about six plants.
\nI need to think about this. I wonder if there’s anyway to get around the darned critter? At least now I know that I am not a failure as a gardener!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m NOT a failure. I discovered today that I have NOT been a failure for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS! When we first moved here, and I started the gardens, I tried to grow morning glories, so that they would grow … Continue reading