Today I am posting some photographs of the " Garden On The Hill" as I call it, because it is up on the hill behind our log cabin here on the Eastern Continental Divide in Western North Carolina, and as each year passes I continue to fight the elements (Summer Drought), sweltering heat,and getting older and less able to do what I used to do.
Now here is the dilemma that I deal with each year in my gardening endeavors, I have a major battle with Morning Glory's wanting to take over the garden and choke out every growing thing that I try to get to survive the Summer drought by hand watering each plant and giving everything some Miracle Grow to boost the chance of survival of my plants.
Morning Glory's are very aggressive plants, spreading their vines rapidly and making a carpet of vines twisting to and fro, out and upwards, entwining everything in sight....so this is what I face each Summer...do I pull them out or cut them down? or do I let them grow to help hold the tilled soil from any chance of soil erosion...should we be lucky enough to get a rain shower..which we do in early Spring..sometimes torrential Spring rains..which we here in the mountains call "Gully Washers"..and believe me we do get our" Gully's" washed with these early Spring rains.
Oh My...I sure do ramble on....lol....well on to what I started to write about...
The Morning Glory's are so beautiful to look at...many different colors and patterns..as I go up each morning on the hill in the garden to greet the new day and say Good Morning to Grandfather ( Sun ) and say a few words to Creator and thank him for a new day to explore.
Below please find some photos of the garden and some of the things I grow in it besides the Morning Glory's...click on any photo to enlarge if you want a larger and better view.

This particular morning I took the photo at 6AM and the Fog was very thick over the garden.





In between each Beef Steak Tomato plant..I planted Cal. Wonder Bell Pepper plants 18 in total.



This is the "Bird House Gourd" patch

I will now start to show you some of the troublesome, but beautiful, different Morning Glory's that grow wild in the garden.











One of my still growing Water Melons on the vine after I used the weed whacker to take out the weeds and grass, and yes......Morning Glory's
After touring the garden I came down the hill to our log cabin and checked on the condition of the flower beds in our front yard and other flowers in the front of the cabin..the photo just below shows the results of very hot temperatures.


A close up photo of some flowers on the Trumpet Vine..note: if you click to enlarge..you can even see a Bug on one of the flowers.
This concludes my ramblings of the "Battle In The Garden" I hope you were amused, or maybe even a bit sympathetic of my gardening woes.
Please feel free to leave a comment...I do check to see if any one has come by , and maybe...just maybe...I have touched your funny bone in some way..or just "Made Your Day" with my ramblings.
3 comments:
Wow...you covered everything. Nice garden shot especially the peyote gourds and morning glories. Thanks for sharing.
Your garden is splendid. Everything looks so healthy. My tomatoes are rotting due to the huge amount of rain we are getting. I love morning glories, do yours come back every year or do you replant them?
In answer to Julie...no I don't plant the Morning Glory's..they come back all on their own every year.
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