My Never-Fail Crops--Although I'd like them To Try

Frog is keeping a brotherly eye on my two fastest garden-growers.

Garlic and horseradish are nice but I was hoping there would be more lettuce and acorn squash.



The garlic at least had the good manners to grow where it was planted but the horseradish is another story.

I planted one root in the back left corner of the yard and now the stuff grows wherever it jolly well pleases, and that seems to be everywhere.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find it popping up through the bathtub drain.

Horseradish sauce is a big winner in my family, despite the fact that when you're preparing it, the fumes could flatten a thirty ton bull.

So you keep watching, frog and before you know it, that stuff will have you clinging precariously to the garden gate.

Wins and Losses

The raised beds were a great idea. This one was intended to hold the oriental rhubarb and a smattering of spinach and lettuce. Instead, the horseradish, planted way back by the fence, crept forward and sneaked into everything this year.
The veggies surrendered and now the rhubarb is holding a shoving match with the intruder.
My kids love my horseradish sauce--it comes with fire extinguishers, so it has to stay. But how to contain it?
From what I've read, it won't be easy. Or possible.

The morning glories are charming as always; I installed a fine netting over the fence and they are winding their way up up from the end of their raised bed.

Then there's the ornamental grass. I thought it would be nice to plant it by the air conditioner so we wouldn't have to stare at the metal box. I guess I got the kind of grass that wants to shield entire houses from view.
that gate isn't mine--it belongs to the next-door neighbor.
I think I'll give the grass a haircut.

Life At The Funny Farm

This unknown plant is growing happily and I'm rather fond of it. It looks like a confused Lilac that lost sense of time and thinks it's spring. Anyone know what it really is?


Along the back fence I have crammed in horseradish, peppers, eggplant and tomatoes.The cramming was inintentional butI read recently that Horseradish knows no boundaries and will take over eventually.Eventually appears to be now.


Anybody need horseradish sauce? I may have a surplus.