The Friday Fling Shares Gardening Tips Didactically!
Friday Fling #176 April 13th 2012
Gardening! It’s that time of year when the gardening tools come out of the shed, and even those of us who are not tools do too. Ok but seriously folks, that’s our theme this week, sharing gardening tips!
The general term for any poem which imparts insturctional information is Didactic. It can rhyme or not, have even or patterened syllable count or not, pretty wide open! For instance:
Follow a few simple rules
to grow a garden of tomatoes
plant below stem nodules.
Step back and shout: thar she grows!
Carrots need loose soil to thrive
straight and long as they should be.
Seedlings take time to arrive.
But grow they will, as you will see!
This week the Friday Fling shares gardening tips in Didactic poetry!
Be sure to save time to read and comment prolifically on your fellow Pals’ poetic recommendations. Then do your own personal gardening this weekend for whatever you hope to harvest later!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for April 6th
Congratulations Mary Margaret!
Welcome everyone to another Friday Fling for early Spring! Time to go to the garden shed and rummage around for what you need to write a didactic poem imparting gardening tips! Then come back to the computer and write one! Remember that “didactic” is just a fancy name for an informative poem. Time for some informative fun sharing about what we’re caring about growing stuff! Be sure to be creative and have friggin’ Friday Fun!
Sonnet’s Garden Advice
We tend our gardens watch them grow
And in the spring some seeds we sow
Watering gives our plants a chance
We weed so that weeds won’t advance
Plant flowers with similar needs
Sprinkle bone meal our bulbs it feeds
Pinch back the mums for bigger blooms
While tending all those garden rooms
Some perennials you divide
Then more flowers it will provide
Stake peonies from wind and rain
Then the white blossoms will not stain
Plant marigolds to deter ants
It makes a great companion plant
Deadhead petunias every day
Then longer will your flowers stay
Coffee grounds for azaleas base
For nutrients it does replace
Sonnet Diva all rights reserved
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This pic is the back yard garden of Sonnet Diva! Beautiful garden, Lori and thanks so much for your contribution to the Friday Fling! :love: 😀
See told you me didnt have green thumb post in wrong place yet again … 😳 😳 Thats twice this week man what wrong wit me … 🙄 😯 Too two many iron in fire again … 🙄 😳 Giggles … Delete it want … Sorry me bad … Hugs :love: :love:
Such a wonderful time of year. Beautiful blog and challenge and pieces posted. Congratulations to Mary Margaret!
This AWARD is a HIgh HONOR I am truly Truly highly loving this and I accept the award!
I worked real hard on this.. I know you all know (yeah) It was hard DARNITT any how!
giggles!! Dang nabbitt I won a award MA gee wiz! Yeah! I copied that sucker man!!
Showed my Son.. He is all excited fer me! Thanks Guys really.. Means a bunch..
I love learning… Not just the Learning Part.. Being told when I am … screwing up..
Or can do better.. or make my art look better.. or how to make it look better..You guys..
Have all helped me do this…Well Better quit for I will have a fricken book here yep ..
COFFEE SPIDER ON THE LOOSE!!! YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEPPPEESSS!!!!thank you from the bottom of my blacken heart! :love:
Michelle and I wold love to see your garden pics! Here’s one from my backyard a few years ago, the non-garden part. That’s my grandson Billy when he was younger. Unfortunately the heavy snowstorm we had two days before last Halloween (!) broke down the big overhanging branch you see, which now has to be logged out.
Thank You Scotorum & Michelle very love topic i like it. :love:
The day I plant my herbs to grow is busy day everyone knows.
One by one I carefully choose the seed for the right colorful pots.
That way a better chance that none will rot
I label my little seedlings so I know how much water the get.
when they get so big I but them in bigger pots.
When it time to harvest them I dry them for my magical uses a lot.
I love my gardened the way it smells.
I can feel the energies in my soul.
I tell them grow baby grow.
For reap what I sow.
THIS WAS MY FLOWER PATCHES COUPLE YEARS AGO I LIVED THERE 17 YEARS I DID FOR YEARS WHEN I LIVE WAY UP NORTH MINNESOTA. I HAD 88 ACRES.
THIS MY MAILBOX I HAD 2 DRIVE WAYS INTO MY PLACE THIS IS MY MAIN DRIVE WAY. I PLANTED FLOWERS EVERY YEAR
THIS IS THE OTHER WAY YOU CAN COME OUT OF MY FARM ALSO.THIS FLOWER GARDEN WAS MY PRIDE I ENTER FLOWERS IN THE PINE COUNTY FAIR EVERY YEAR.
These are my black hollyhocks that bloom every summer in front of my livingroom window.
My perennial garden along my yard by the road of Blackeyed Susans that attract finches and butterflies. The red flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
I also have a vegetable garden every year and this is last year’s harvest! We had so much Zucchini, tomatoes, and peppers. The best ever garden in a long time.
And sometimes we get veggies growing in very unusual shapes. This Eggplant and a big nose growing out of it. LOL… I called this my Jimmy Durante eggplant and it made a very delicious eggplant Parmesan 😆
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FRIENDSHIP’S SPRINGTIME GARDEN
Lingering for a moment
at my window of dawn,
I inhale the sweet fragrances
from my garden of morn,
nighttime dreams left behind
to visit another time.
Seeds of friendship
sown with care and love
are blooming in the garden,
nurtured from above,
exquisite jewels sparkling
in the April morning sun.
Sprinkled liberally with tears
of sadness and joy,
friendship flowers bloom
just outside my window here,
blossoms of precious silver and gold
filling this vase within my heart
as they’ve graced my special garden
on this beautiful springtime day.
(c) barbara kausteklis 4-13-12
Hi Michelle and Bob! Wonderful blog with great writes by all…been quite the week this week, so haven’t had much time around here. Here’s something on the spur of the moment…lol…
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A Garden to Sow
Dig the garden to loosen the soil
Mark off the rows for seeds to sow
Plant them lovingly in the ground
And pray to God that it doesn’t snow.
Water them when rain doesn’t fall
Keep them nourished and free from weeds
A bountiful crop will be rewarded to you
You can also save next year’s seeds.
And congratulations to Mary Margaret on the award! It is a great poem and you so deserve this!!!! :love: :love: :love:
THIS MAN CAME IN MY LIFE AS A FRIEND AND BLOSSOM MY WORLD AND WANT TO SHARE. THANK YOU RUSSELL
I just wrote this and I can’t read it and it is off the cuff so fick it I am screwed
