I have a bareroot rose from last year and I have it in front of a side fence to discourage anyone from hopping the fence to get in the back. Someone stepped on it late last fall and broke and bent canes off to the ground and within a few inches. I cut them off and with normal watering it came back this spring, growing off what I thought were dead canes and I didn't see anywhere it could start growing from again. I almost think it's going to be a better rose bush for it. I don't think a bent, damaged cane could sustain the weight roses would put on it. From what you're saying I don't believe the rose will regrow the damage done. I don't really understand where it's broke out but I think you'll have to prune it off and hope to spark new growth with some watering. I'd be putting some Vitamin B1 on it for stress. You might create a well around the rose and water it deeply before you go, maybe it would be enough if it's not too warm where you are. Roses are pretty tough, I've had various accidents with them and thought they'd be toast and they were fine.

Jodie, I truly sympathize. I was in moving hell for two years as we made the move south for DH's work. It involved selling my house and wintersown gardens, moving first to a trailer in one state, then to a one-bedroom apartment in another state, and finally, to a new (to us) property. Here's what I did to take some of the sting out - first, I took cuttings of some of my favorite plants and rooted them. If you can do that, or better yet, pot up a few divisions into pots - think smallish here, but you can fit a lot of pots in a car (you don't need clothes. Clothes are replaceable). Seeds, of course, travel easily. Gather as many as you can from your gardens now - depending upon where you are moving from and to, you may be able to start a lot of the plants you have loved again. Container gardening is your modus operandi until you have a new 'permanent' place. For your personal self - adopt regular exercise if you haven't already. I was miserable during this time, and exercise is the #1 help for situational (as opposed to clinical) depression. To get some mojo back: if you can't face putting those babies in the ground, give them away! Or have a charity sale! I still have very few friends in my new place, but just a couple of days ago I took a pile of WS seedlings to my neighbor, and scored 3 lovely calla lilies that were overflow from her garden, and a good gardening conversation. Try as we might not to do it, we tend to base a lot of our security around home base - it was amazing to me how fast I felt better as soon as we bought a house. Yet I will never have the same sense of security as I did before, and that's actually a good thing. Besides, I have twice the yard to wintersow! :)(at least, for now...)

Hello all, I am a newbie, living in western ,NY, don't know the zone,sorry. first time in cottage gardens. I just had to write, because I was just watering the Lemon Balm I bought last week , it is in a pot in my garden window and I thought to myself, I should plant that outside !! ..haha i am so glad i came on here. I am finally getting my back yard to use for growing plants and for letting the wild things grow:) Before with 4 very sport minded kids it was a basketball court and vollyball court, now I have let part of the wetlands grow as it likes ... we keep it mowed in a manageable size, well I think we will be able to manage it. I also let some of my woody are grow free and now I have wild rasberries I think? and lots of stuff I don't know what they are. I also threw some cosmos seeds and other seeds my mum brought me over from england. so I will be back here with pictures for help, as soon as i can figure out how to work my new digatal camera, and upload picture, i am a newbie at everything, I guess my garden life begins at 6o:) Oh I have one queation, I have a bush/tree tha that what looks like golfballs on it, does anybody know what it could be, if they had a nike mark on them I would use them.. Thanks for any help you can give, sorry this is so long I am just so excited to have found this site. Cheerio for now, Rose

When I am alone in the afternoon I make a cup of instant coffee. I mixed the coffee in a mug and apparently put the container of instant coffee in the micro. When I came inside about 4-5 mins later I had the most awful smell of something burning. When I figured it was the micro I couldn't even recognize what was melted in there. I cleaned up the mess and scrubbed forever with windex, vinegar and baking soda. It was improved but still smelled when I used it for about a week. It is completely gone now. I also left the door open for a few hours.