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Many-splendored container garden

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Eye candy garden | 4:21 p.m. July 11, 2009
First of all congratulations on your 56-year marriage, Johnsons!

Wow, what a gorgeous garden. Thanks for the photos.

My own containers in Utah require constant checking on for drying out. I had lots of snails this year and lost some petunias and peppers. Clever little creatures are good climbers. But snails are unusual because this spring was so rainy.

Thanks for the tips, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.
utah rose | 5:45 p.m. July 11, 2009
This is a beautiful garden. This year I invested in "hanging pots" of flowers, which have done very well, and square foot gardening.

I acquired a few of these made from vinyl fencing and they are doing very well bug free. I even planted tomatoes in one of them.

No weeding, just watering. That really helps me because I have arthritis so its a mostly no-maintenance gardening, and was blessed with no snails either.

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Celestine and Charles Johnson love flowers and grow most of them in more than 100 containers throughout their yard in Hampton, Virginia.

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