Early Girls...No Kidding!

It's gorgeous out today but I'm home sick.  Doesn't seem right, does it?  Once again, I'm dealing with a cellulitis infection on my left and a slight fever.  I'd really rather be out in the garden but I'm too tired and achy to get out of the house.  This will be a second test of whether tea tree oil is a good alternative to antibiotic treatment for the infection.  It worked the first time, so I have high hopes.

But enough about me.  Check out what I found in the garden last night!

Those are tiny little Early Girl tomatoes hiding on the inside of the plant.  Aren't they adorable?  I guess these are aptly named since it is WAY early for tomatoes.

Over the weekend, we ended up at Lowe's and I found a stellar clearance deal on some rose bushes.  I've got a soft spot for roses and just can't resist them, so I couldn't pass these up for $1.00 each even if they look a little rag tag.  I'm hoping that I can nurse them back to health.  There are a couple of different varieties here - mostly red, but there's one red and white one.  Now I just have to figure out where to put them.  Am I the only one that buys plants without a plan?  :-)

Just $6 for all these rose bushes!

And I have one last picture for you.  This one is actually for fellow blogger Mary Ann over at Calamity Acres.  She commented on my earlier post that she loved my Climbing Blaze Rose.  So here's a picture of another one that we had planned on training up a trellis on our front porch.  This thing was a huge maneater and grew faster than we could get the trellis up (we were doing other renos at the time).  It quickly grew over the sidewalk and, after "biting" J. a couple of times when he was mowing the lawn, we had to pull it out.  I actually cried when we did it.  :-(



Prolific bloomer Climbing Blaze rose looked like this all summer!


As I write this, I'm listening to the weather and they're talking about calculating a heat index tomorrow, so I guess it's going to get steamy and hot here.  Oh, joy! I hope it moderates by the weekend, because I'm going to be blogging from the Baker Seeds Spring Planting Festival about 2 hours from here.

What's going on in your neck of the woods?

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