The Rose Garden

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[Cally]

Time to bring this thread back to life!

My roses this spring have simply been stunning!   I'm not sure if it is the mild winter we had, or the fact we have had good moisture levels and a normal spring, but I know these are some of the best looking roses I have had since moving to this property 23 years ago.   Here are some pics.....

Roses say "summer" to me. (But we're not there yet).  Beautiful!

[CellarDweller115]

Fantastic series,  Charlie!!!!

[doodler]

Not about roses, sorry. There used to be a gardening thread which helped me a couple of times, which seems to have disappeared. But you folks probably know the answer to this, so...
at the end of last year, I just let my one tomato plant dry up in the big tub where it had lived (and given me way more tomatoes than I and all the local deer could consume.) This year, I did not plant another. BUT I have one growing. I thought they had to be new every year. Not so? Will this one bear fruit?
Thanks.

[Tony_]

 A rose by any other name is, a tomato?

Well, never heard of this one. Tomatos are, the last I heard, annuals.  It's possible a bird or squirrel ate one from last year and left a seed.  As to whether it would bear fruit, yes, but if the original plant was a hybrid, the new one may revert.  Let it grow !
 Meanwhile, if this is the wrong thread, I guess the Diner is your last resort.

[doodler]

 

Thanks, T. Some of the tomatoes were still attached as the plant dried up. Maybe a seed from one of those survived. But if that is thecase, wouldn't that happen every year in gardens where the plants are not plowed under... even if they were plowed, if there were still tomatoes on the vine, wouldn't some of them grow the next year? It's a miracle! Now I guess I have to go there and pull out all the grass and weeds and junk in that tub. Yeah, thanks, Tony.
 

[doodler]

Bad news. Last evening, while pulling the really really tall grass in my tomato's tub, I managed to pull the tomato as well. The plant is about 3 feet tall... and has one (ONE) very thick root, about 8-9 inches long. It does not have that intertwined mass of hundreds of little roots that smaller store-bought plants have. I immediately dug out a really deep hole and replanted the tomato but this morning it is not looking at all happy. Oh well.

[Tony_]

Do not over-water.  Just shy of that, for now.  Good luck.  And, are you sure it isn't a carrot?

[doodler]

First off, over watering might be a problem... we had 14 inches of rain in 3 weeks (breaking the all time record for the month of July by 6 inches) with more heavy rain expected starting tomorrow and lasting through next week. (NOBODY here, including me if you can believe it, is complaining about the rain. There are signs all over the place saying "let it rain" "bring on the rain" "rain rain here to stay. yea!")
And second, I don't know what carrot plants look like but I don't think  they get 3 feet tall. The root sort of resembled a shrivelled up, unhealthy carrot...
Perhaps that bird you were talking about was a non-discriminating vegetarian?

[Tony_]

 It's probably a Triffid (from outer space), Doodler.  Kill it.  Quickly !!!!