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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (961)	7/10/2000 1:33:20 PM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

I lost two rose bushes over the winter :( There are some people here that cover them in burlap filled with leaves for insulation. I never put much effort into them. Just cut them back in the fall, and let be what will. Ironicaly, I haven't had much trouble with Japanese beetles yet this year. Usually they are chewing everything from the leaves of roses to the cherries and chestnuts- knock on wood I suppose, I hate them. My cabbage family plants are doing rotten this year. First, I inadvertently gave away most of my broccoli thinking they were cabbage. I ended up with a ton of cabbage. Anyhow, it doesn't really matter since something has been chewing away at them to the point they don't appear so healthy. I do have a few small heads starting on the broccoli and culliflower. That's about it. Even the kolarabi is suffering badly. My tomatoes and peppers are really doing well though. They look like something lush out of the rain forests. Onions are really nice too. They have bigger heads than the culliflower already. Both the Walla wallas and the Coprras. I know what you mean about weeds. But since I mowed them down, and I like to work outside in my bare feet, the little pencile like weed stems can kinda hurt. My thought was to run the little Troy Built down the rows to mulch everything. But my neighbor told me to take all his clippings from this year if I want them. Maybe I'll do both, time permitting. Oh, p.s. My volunteer sunflowers(from the past 6 or so years) are thriving better than ever. I'm getting them coming up everywhere. It's kinda neat to see one or a few of them growing in the middle of the grass(I let a few of them go and just cut arount them) :)