Hi Mobird, glad you've stripped off your invisibility cloak. Also glad you like chocolate of all kinds, but what about Cosmopolitans?

My garden is a mess but full of flowers anyway, it being June and all. Hope we see you more often.

Hi Mary, nice to have you join us.

Hello Mobird and welcome. I also enjoy container gardening in addition to the beds in my garden. There are no weeds with the containers. And easy to get to with my arthritic knees.

Hi Mary and welcome from another container gardener. Gabriell, you're lucky to have no weeds...I find my containers regularly sprout Oaks and attempt Pine trees if I'm not diligent, not to mention innumerable grass seedlings. I've found an old pair of ice tongs from my old cocktail party days are really useful...those serrated tips are just great for reaching below the surface and yanking. I'll confess I used to cut up pine straw for mulching when I only had 20 containers...with 200=300 I try to cover surface with groundcovers but even then I still get weeds. josh

Welcome to the Garden Party, Mary, it's good to see new folks here.

Glad you decided to come in from the bushes. LOL
I'm just getting started with container gardening and wondering how come i have'nt done it sooner.
my flower beds are a mess too but blooming too. and i'm frantically trying to get everything into pots.
Josh, i'll probably have trouble with oak seedlings too as i've oak trees all over.
How do you handle 200 plus containers? When i think about it though,it can't be worse than all the flower beds i have and when i think of all the rocks i've had to dig up,it would have been easier to have started with containers.
vickie

Welcome Mary! You've passed the chocolate test & Pidge has asked you about Cosmos, but what are your feelings about flamingos in the garden? Looking forward to reading your posts.

Thank you all for the nice welcome. Glad to hear I passed the chocolate test--I didn't even study. I'll have to say, "No," to the Cosmopolitans and the flamingos, too. But unsweetened ice tea? Bring me a trough. And I collect cat and kitten garden statues and hide them around amongst the containers to fool my kitty.

Ahhh, a cat person. Welcome, welcome.

Although evidently you're not the person to explain the mysteries of "sweet tea" to me. Daughter of my best friend (from Texas) made the most marvelous sweet tea for me whenever I visited. She spent twenty years trying to teach me how to make it, but mine never tasted quite the same.

meldy,Had to add, my DD makes the best ice tea and i cannot get the hang of it. The harder i try and using the same recipe the worse it tastes.