2011 Garden Wars: Week 7
RIP, Scott Pharr. But, let’s be honest, we’re better off without him anyway! Amiright! JK JK, buddy.
RIP, Scott Pharr. But, let’s be honest, we’re better off without him anyway! Amiright! JK JK, buddy.
So here we are. Our final two competitors await final, bloody battle. Who will survive? Whose blood will spill and water the victor’s garden? WHOSE CUISINE WILL REIGN SUPREME? Wait…
Anyway, on to voting!
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Ryan Smartt
Fortunately, much of my yard avoids direct sunlight all day. Which probably explains how these Knockout Roses have managed to maintain their delightful prettiness.
The summer of the Magical Mystery Squash continues. This guy appears to be a butternut squash. Which I plan to roast with some onions, puree, mix with homemade chicken stock, then add some cinnamon and nutmeg. Simple butternut squash soup, people. I don’t care if it’s a KADRILLION DEGREES OUTSIDE.
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Sarah Milston
The herb garden is going wild–lead by the four varieties of mint I have planted. Some people hate mint because it can be invasive, but I love it. I add it to veggies, soups, cookie, and liquids! I especially love mint simple syrup. Add a bit to iced tea, bourbon, gin…magic. Summer in a glass.
The trellis is a toddler friendly area. Lily Jaymes dances, plays peak-a-boo, and hides all around the trellis without trampling veggies (I currently have a plant graveyard from all the “accidents”). The squash, cucumber, and beans are very happy to have taken flight. Here she is pointing out a new squash.
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Simple mint syrup? Heck yeah! Sarah Milston gets my vote this week!
Did you see the perfect shape of Smartt’s butternut squash??? I vote Smarttly!
Smartt for sure!
Thanks Ryan. That explains my homeliness, I have direct sunlight on me all day long! My dad just told me about some big ugly stick, and a tree? Nice looking Butternut there, but be careful, it looks too much like an incadescent light bulb and the Federal Government may come and take it away. VOTE FOR RYAN.
Milston for the win! Fun & funky garden, adorable child and she broke out the bourbon & gin!
Why no photos of your homemade chickens, Ryan? You’ve piqued my curiosity.
Smartt
I vote smart!
The mention of liquor and the return of the cute kid pictures? Team Milston!
Smartt!
Can we have a Magical Mystery Squash Tour?
Smartt all the way.
My vote is for Ryan.
This proves that a guy can appreciate roses. That picture sold it for me. I vote for Ryan “Rose Garden” Smart :-)
The Magical Mystery Squash isn’t Lyla but it is hard to resist butternut squash soup–the vote is for Smartt who outlasts them all.
Sarah said “bourbon” so she gets my vote.
Very SMARTT
Ryan Smartt gets my vote – and thanks for the yummy soup recipe!
I liked the roses until I read about the bourbon… so I was going to go with Sarah.
But now I see that Ryan voted for the bourbon–I mean Sarah!–so I’ll cancel that out with a vote for Ryan.
This is democracy in action, y’all!
I vote Sarah! What wonderful ideas she has for mint. I think I might go make a glass of iced tea with mint right now!
I vote Ms. Milston. You can bring your mint to Louisville any time.
Sarah. All the way.
Go Sarah- Love the mint syrup!
Anything that allows me to enjoy gin more gets my vote- go Sarah!
Milstons are THE Gardeners!!!
Sarah wins for most creative, again!
My vote for Sarah!
Oh Sarah, I love mint simple syrup.
Milston all the way.
Sarah gets my vote also!
So torn!!! Buuutttt… Milston FTW.
Milston!
I vote for Sarah, need I say why…..
This is SO HARD. I do love a good rose, but voting Milston here for the many uses of mint and great trellis.
Milston gets my final vote!
Smartt FTW!
Smartt, Smartt, Smartt! The roses are beautiful!
smartt butternut!
Sarah Milston!
The squash is lovely but I LOVE the trellis and you can’t go wrong with mint syrup, a little bourbon and some crushed ice on a hot summer’s day. That said, my vote goes to Sarah and (LJ too, of course!).
Milston!
sarah for the dreamy trellis.
Smartt has “squashed” the competition. I vote for Ryan Smartt.
Love the trellis!! I’l bring my own bourbon.
Milston FTW!
Smartt is the winner!
I vote for bourbon and mint…and Sarah. She knows the way to this southern girl’s heart.
Looks gorgeous as always Sarah!!! I vote Milstons!!!
Milstons! All the way!!!
Ryan sure rose to the occasion and squashed the competition for this final round. Smartt move!
“Squash and Roses” could be a newfangled take on “Guns and Roses,” dontcha think? Smartt for the win!
I vote for Ryan’s Butternut Squash soup!! In hopes I get to taste it!…But that mint syrup sounded tempting!
I vote Sarah, I am thinking, how would Mint Simple Syrup taste in my Corona?
MilstonMilstonMilston!
I vote Ryan! What a good looking squash and beautiful roses!
Smartt gets my vote!!! By the by, did those roses grow out of mulch????
I have actually eaten squash from that rich, rich Richmond garden. It was an amazing feast. Roses blooming in that Richmond heat? It must be a miracle….They are beau-ti-ful! Since I was born in the Rose-Capitol-of-the-World, Tyler Texas, and I personally know the yumminess of the squash..es from that fertile Richmond garden, I will vote smartly for Ryan.
Sarah gets my vote. Very nice photos. And now I’ve got sipping mint juleps by the trellis on my brain.
Love the LJ! Milstons!
MILSTONS!!!!!!
The last time an election was bought with the promise of whiskey was when Joe Kennedy bought his son the game-changing votes of Illinois with riches derived from bootleg scotch. In this election even Ryan himself was lured away by the aroma of bourbon. Shame! I’m voting for Ryan and hoping he can stay sober long enough to cook the soup.
Ryan, Ryan he’s our man, if he can’t do it nobody can
Sarah. Hands down better pictures.
I vote SMARTT!
Ryan Smartt and squash get my vote!!
Ryan Smartt all the way!
Since I had to hang the trelis my vote is for SJ!
Sorry SJ = Sarah Milston formally known as Sarah Johnston.
Sarah Milston. You had me at simple mint syrup.
I like roses, but you can’t drink them. I vote for mint simple syrup.
Mint syrup in bourbon…of course I’m voting for Milston!
Ryan Smartt!
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan!
Sarah!
MILSTON!
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Girls rule. I vote for Sarah
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Go Sarah !!!
My vote for Sarah.