# Are you putting out ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2000, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555 "2000-03-09T11:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaydabee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jaydabee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaydabee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/1 "2000-03-09T11:39:00Z")
Are you putting out a garden this year? I can’t this year for I am in the process of moving. ☹ Tell me about yours (or make up a virtual one!) * * * watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, a liberal,fanatical a criminal… ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/2 "2000-03-09T14:46:00Z")
Actually I put my garden in, in May and take it out in August/September * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/3 "2000-03-09T14:47:00Z")
When I get to California, I’m going to buy my parents some strawberry plants, and maybe some blackberry vines. Then I’m going to cross my fingers and hope my mom and I don’t manage to kill them off too quickly. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/4 "2000-03-09T14:56:00Z")
I’ve tried, oh, how I’ve tried, but every single plant I have ever put into the ground has died or been eaten by the Invisible Fiend living under the deck. I’ve had great success in container planting ON the deck, and the Mother’s Day Geraniums around the birdbath. Or pansies, I am a weak kneed sappy pushover for pansies, if pansies were men I’d be a “ho” for sure. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/5 "2000-03-09T16:06:00Z")
I have inherited a patio area that has been overtaken with ivy. I plan on ripping out the ivy and planting a multitude of flowers. The area doesn’t get a lot of light so prolly impatiens, rhodies and azaelas. Right now all my potted daffodils are in bloom and the tulips should soon follow suit. Someday I hope to be the owner of a real garden, with fountains, and ponds and a gazebo to sit and have my morning coffee. I love flower gardens! * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/6 "2000-03-09T16:58:00Z")
I’ve not had much luck tilling the flight deck in the past… * * * Voted **Best Sport** and narrowly averted the despised moniker **Smiley Master** on TMHP. Forward deployed until 18AUG00 ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/7 "2000-03-09T19:12:00Z")
## We’re in a new house, well, to us anyway, and the yard was/is a disaster! When I’m through with it, it will have roses in front along the front of the house, the Crepe Myrtle tree will be out in the middle of the yard, instead of partway under the roof by the front door, and the back yard! Do I have plans for the back yard! A flower garden along the right side, looking from the porch, and a lot of container plantings on the deck, and a small veggie garden on the left, next to the shed. Oh, and I’d like to incorporate an arbor, and maybe a trellis somewhere. And the koi pond will go in front, where the crepe myrtle tree sits now. \ 🙂 Seen on billboard near home: Don’t make me come down there. God ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/8 "2000-03-09T20:28:00Z")
From an old Spike Jones tune: “Did you put the cat out?” “I didn’t even know it was on fire!” * * * Boldly Going Nowhere ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/9 "2000-03-10T00:35:00Z")
I love gardening. I’m not good at it, mind, but love it anyway. The hanging baskets on the porch get filled with assorted stuff. Last year I had pretty good luck with a New Guinea impatien in the center for height, some ruffled basil, and regular inpatiens in assorted colors around the edges. The Ex always insisted on planting the large circular flower bed in red salvia. (The urn in the center always has English ivy; looks good in it.) I want to try some color variety this year, but haven’t decided what. The 3 rectangular beds are used for: 1. various varieties of tomatoes and peppers 2. herbs (lots of basil; rosemary; dill; tarragon; sage, etc. (The thyme goes in pots on the porch.) 3. the end bed is filled with strawberries. It doesn’t have great soil or light, so I just let the strawberries take it over. Sigh. I’m _so_ ready to get out there and start planting. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/10 "2000-03-10T00:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > maybe some blackberry vines. Then I’m going to cross my fingers and hope my mom and I don’t manage to kill them off too quickly. ?? You’re going to deliberately plant black berry vines? And you’re concerned you might accidentally kill them?? Hon, plant them if you like, but be forewarned, they will grow. And grow. And grow. And when they grow, you won’t be able to kill them if you try. Trust me, I’ve tried. You can’t even dig them up by the roots; they’re deep and they’re thick. Blackberry canes laugh at herbicide. They shrug off clippers. They mock shovels and hoes. When you get to California, be pleasantly surprised if your property isn’t already crawling with berry canes. Not that blackberry canes are all bad. Picking blackberries is a sweet, if sometimes stickery, chore, and I have a good cobbler recipe. But the idea of someone _wanting_ blackberry canes coming up in their garden boggles my mind 🙂 Good luck! (I’ll resist the urge to say “You’ll need it” ;)) * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/11 "2000-03-10T01:06:00Z")
Laughed my head off, Gr8Kat, at your words of wisdom about the blackberry canes. So true. Same goes for mint. The Ex insisted that instead of sinking my mint plants in metal coffee cans I had to use clay pots. I finally did it just to shut him up. Yep, the clay pots disintegrated and the mint has now spread along the narrow strip behind the porch. This stuff is like kudzu! I’ve tried to kill it, thin it, destroy it (it’s gotten woody and stringy–yuck) but the damned stuff is now growing through the lattice, out from _underneath_ the porch. Beware the plants from hell! Veb ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-putting-out/14555/12 "2000-03-10T20:44:00Z")
We finally bought a house in October, and there are four big half-barrel planters in front. They were full of flowers when we looked at the place this summer, and now some sprouts are coming up. A little sparsely on the end two, but I don’t want to disturb anything yet. I’m hoping they are as pretty as when we first saw the house. Also, there are yellow and purple crocuses (crocii?) around the dogwood tree out front. Can’t wait for the dogwood to blossom! I need to talk to my dad about planting and nurturing more perennials. Maybe next year we’ll really have a handle on it. * * * The Dave-Guy “Since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx