Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 10, 2020

Let’s see. There must be SOME reason Janice married you.

I’ve planted grapevines and they’ve NEVER given me wine.

Ah, related to the edible kind, used for garden decoration. Had to look it up.

I have potato vines in my hanging baskets. They grow great.

I grow scarlet runner beans , they put on a good show for the bees and humming birds and they are incredibly delicious!

That’s right Arlo. You’re not supposed to get potatoes from tomato plants.

Been there done that, A&J!

Switch to tulips?

Potato vines are not actually potato plants. They are evergreen flowering vines that bloom during the warm months with white flowers and yellow anthers, which some say resemble a potato. Its scientific name is Solanum laxum (previously known as solanum jasminoides). If growing indoors from seeds, start the process a few weeks before the last frost.

https://www.gardenguides.com/70042-grow-potato-vine.html

Amazing how much I learn looking this stuff up.

Arlo, what did I say about digging a hole for yourself?

My wife is missing all of the plantings from the previous place. I think she’ll feel better when we sell that house and she can focus on her new garden.

This strip is actually too stupid to comment on.

Put out a saucer of beer for the slugs. They tell me it actually works.

I think your plants are suffering from moonburn, Janis. You need to give them some nightshade.

The deer ate all my sweet potato vines. When I sprayed them with various deer repellants, the deer just thought it was a condiment!

Janis is providing all the whine you need.

Gardening for the rest of us.

I’d plant glass but it gives me a pane.

You can buy good tomatoes. Plant OKRA! Because you sure can’t buy it in the grocery store.

We have bright green caterpillars eat out tomato leaves. They must be very tasty. I’m getting too tender-hearted to directly kill them, so I frequently toss them up on the roof or down the drive a ways. If any ever make it back, I will toss them again.

The ones which eat the Chestnut leaves, I let eat. The squirrels are going to get the nuts anyway.

purple cabbages make great ornamentals.

Surround your plants with vermiculate.

Just send the slugs to Fox Trot Classic! Peter, Jason and Paige will thank you!!!

Ouuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeee – that is going to cost you big time buddy!

Well Arlo. Time to break out the little wooden mallet, then sneak up behind those bugs and give them a nasty crack to the back of the head. Always works and is organic.

I planted hops and barley and still don’t have a craft beer in the garden.

Interesting, didn’t think potatoes grew on vines, thought they were tubers.