Gardening with Soule

ACTION! The other sports are just sports.  Baseball is a love.  ~Bryant Gumbel

Last winter, while out on a drive we came upon this wonderful tractor.  And what could be better than an old tractor? An old red tractor.   ~ Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  ~Palmer Sondreal

  We had my cyber friends for lunch at Garden Shoes Online today.    Carol and Pete (owners of Garden Shoes Online) graciously hosted a lunch for my blogging pals so they could come and see our business in action. Kathy Purdy, Jenn Fowler, Donalyn Ketchum, Nicki Conroy and myself ~ It all started about a year ago [...]

My garden this month has been doing  pretty well.  My rose bush has been blooming well all summer.  I have had some heat casualties but I try to focus on the good things,  like my four oclocks that I grew from seed.  And the nasturtiums that really did well this summer for me, although in [...]

 This week has been another hot one.   Some of my plants aren’t faring as well as others but there are still plenty churning out the blooms.  I had to do a lot of weeding and deadheading this week but it’s all good, as long as I can garden,  I am not complaining.    Too soon I [...]

Although many of my plants are giving a wonderful dose of color to the garden,  I can’t help but enjoy a few of my pots that are bursting with color also.     I have had a few casualties due to the heat this summer, but most have not only survived, but also thrived in the heat.  Container gardening can [...]

    After a couple of well needed rainy days, the weather has been wonderful. These past two days, it’s hot but with low humidity so you can actually enjoy being outdoors.   I was finally able to catch up on my yard work and see what is going on out there.  I have plenty of blooms [...]

 Here are a few of the blooms happening today in my garden.  They just happen to all be RED!:)  Have I mentioned that’s my favorite color?     ~” ‘Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!”~William Wordsworth  

 Dahlias are great flowers.  They come in all sizes and colors.  They grow from tubers you plant in spring after all chances of frost is over.   Dahlias require soil with good drainage and  they do well in partial to full sun.  Dahlias are not hardy, so they must be dug up before the first frost.  They can be stored [...]