Cindi - No soaker hoses. Don't need 'em when you're getting as much rain as we have been.. it's been a WONDERFUL year for rain and I'm greedy & wanna keep it ALL. MINE MINE MINE. And the mulch isn't compact yet. still really fluffy. Now next year I'll have to do something about it, but for right now, I'm lucky (which is good because this has been a crappy year for gardening for me. I've given up on trying to control the bindweed in the front.) Lolllll when I have to dig a hole, the ground isn't soggy.. it's a nice moist. Some of my agastaches are like 4-5' tall and they're only supposed to get like 18" tall. Even my climbing roses are actually climbing this year!!! Purple Splash is about 6' tall, but poor Harlequin.. it *would* be about 6' tall if the blooms weren't dragging the canes down. Very spindly canes and the blooms are way too heavy for them. But it's end of season, I know it. My silver maple's losing leaves, the sunburst honeylocust is bright yellow again and my spiderworts all nasty looking. Was a bad year for that plant.. I don't think my Sweet Kate bloomed once this year.
