Mumsy's Romantic Garden Advice

[mlowen]

First morning glory bloom of this season. First picture is slightly out of focus (iPad) but you can see the hot pink between the center and the deep purple. It's a "Grandpa Ott's" Morning Glory from Seed Savers Exchange. My squash bed, with marigolds, behind it and you can see my drip irrigation barrel behind & to the right.

 

[aoxa]

First morning glory bloom of this season. First picture is slightly out of focus (iPad) but you can see the hot pink between the center and the deep purple. It's a "Grandpa Ott's" Morning Glory from Seed Savers Exchange. My squash bed, with marigolds, behind it and you can see my drip irrigation barrel behind & to the right.

I love morning glories! Isn't it late in the season for them to just start blooming?

I didn't plant any this year. Next year for sure.

 

[mlowen]

I love morning glories! Isn't it late in the season for them to just start blooming?

I didn't plant any this year. Next year for sure.

They bloomed very late last year, too. I don't know if it's the variety or my latitude. I'm in southern Maine. Anything that needs warm soil & sun need a little extra help, here. (Starting early, covering for a headstart, etc.) and I didn't do any of that this year. Too busy building the coop/run. We've also had way more rain than usual and only a couple of weeks of really hot weather.

 

[armorfirelady]

First morning glory bloom of this season. First picture is slightly out of focus (iPad) but you can see the hot pink between the center and the deep purple. It's a "Grandpa Ott's" Morning Glory from Seed Savers Exchange. My squash bed, with marigolds, behind it and you can see my drip irrigation barrel behind & to the right.

Beautiful morning glorys. Mine her also bloom later because of the weather. Your drip irrigation barrel......do you run a soaker hose from it and just turn on when you need crops watered?

 

[Kassaundra]

I love morning glories too. I interplanted them in my cucumbers this year to "camaflauge" the cukes from the cucumber beetle, so far I haven't seen any beetles this year at all and the last several years they have been bad, but next year, no matter how cute, fragile and defenseless the little morning glory sprout looks I am only allowing ONE sprout per cucumber trellis!!!!!!!

 

[MumsyII]

Welcome to the conversation Rosiekitty!

You can have the garden of your dreams.

I've never heard of or seen a Wheel bug so I am enjoying the information and pictures very much.

Morning Glory is so pretty. I've never planted it.

My hoop house for the Potager garden is new this year. I used moisture barrier high mil plastic that my husband brought home from a finished construction job site. It barely covered the whole tent. I cut off excess length to make the doors for the front and back. Using spring clips I picked up at the dollar store. When the summer night time and day time temps raise, I rolled up the sides a few feet and removed the door flaps for added air circulation and ventilation. When the temp starts to drop in another month, I will close it up again to help the tomatoes and tomatillas to finish ripening on the vines.

I was going to remove the clearer plastic and replace it with heavy tarp when I move the HRIR flock out here for the winter, but "the pumpkin that wants to take over the world" may completely cover the hoop house by then.

The rest of the country may be having crazy summer weather but here it is remarkably stable. My husband and I were discussing it last night. We had a warm dry June and July. Good rain the first week of August and now warm again. Perfect vegetable growing weather. August here is usually the only warm month of the year.

A lot of things want to munch beans as they are coming up. Rabbits will eat them to the ground. In my garden flocks of sparrows will eat all the leaves and even pull them up as seedlings. Slugs will get them too. I usually start beans in four inch pots and stagger plant them. I have beans coming in various stages that way. Eventually some survive and they catch up with each other.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have several colors of morning glories


















Sorry for the pic overload, to me they are like chips, you can't just pick one! lol

 

[flgardengirl]

I love morning glories too!

Here is one of my own. I am calling it Blue Flamingo. Showed up in my yard about 5 yrs ago. I had been hybridizing some of my morning glories but not sure if it was from that or a single mg that morphed into a hidge type. It is much bluer than the picture shows but has that pink in the middle. The seeds all come true.

Here is another one of my favorite MG (not my creation) Gypsy Bride

 

[Kassaundra]

Ohhhh I don't have any doubles.

 

[armorfirelady]

Kassuandra- beautiful plants and what a great idea to plant them next to your cucumbers to deter pests!!! I really need to do some homework over the winter to see what other plants deter pests.

Mumsy- I have never seen double morning glories before either. The ones I had I planted many years reseeded themselves and the 2nd year I got all green and no flowers per se but lots & lots of bees. It overtook the side of my deck. Now I just keep pulling them out when they come up.


And I must miss the seeds on a lot of plants because I never saw seeds on them before but obviously they have them