journey11
Garden Master
I miss you guys! 
Hope you all are doing well and had a good harvest this year. I really miss talking garden with you all. I feel like I'm going to miss out on something very cool that I'll never hear about anywhere else. I've learned so much and tried so many new varieties and had so much more fun with my garden the past couple years, all because of the wonderful folks here on TEG.
Time to clean up the garden and put on a cover crop here. We've had so much rain this year...all year long. I've got mushrooms and algae growing all over my yard and the grass is as green as April. And I live on a hilltop! No kidding! Wish I could send some of this rain to you folks who really need it. But I guess we're supposed to have an easier winter this year...or maybe that's just me thinking I deserve one anway.
Here's a few pics from the garden...
I planted 7 packets of different sunflowers this year. I love 'em. Just so happy!
And lots more dahlias (grown from seed, mostly cactus types). I love this combination of colors. Been taking flowers to everybody this summer.
Some of my pumpkin harvest and the Jumbo Pink Banana squash (see the water bath canner for size!)
These Giant Red Marconi peppers are a new staple in my garden from now on. They are so sweet and tasty...great cut up fresh with dip, or to really add a little something special to a pot of chili. I planted 8 plants and got over 2 bushels of peppers from them. Very productive!
My silly old dog thinks that 68 degrees is too cold for her. She dug herself a bed into the top of this big manure pile I have for landscaping the front of the house. (My neighbors are still wondering what I'm going to do with all that manure...ha.)
New hive stand for the bees we finally got built. It will hold up to 6 hives and is very sturdy. The rough cut is there temporarily to hold the gravel in until I put down some landscape timbers instead. The 6 posts are set in the ground (I never intend to move it...have no other good place to put the bees on my small property) and I can paint them with tanglefoot or a vaseline/baby oil mixture to keep the ants OUT. I didn't take off any honey this year since it took so long to build them back up after I lost my queen.
So it's been a good summer, although it seems like it was over too soon. I'm already plotting for next year, but I'll have to try to be sensible and scale back a little since I'm going to have my hands full for awhile.
Well, I'm going to go see who won the pumpkin contest... Take care everybody!
Hope you all are doing well and had a good harvest this year. I really miss talking garden with you all. I feel like I'm going to miss out on something very cool that I'll never hear about anywhere else. I've learned so much and tried so many new varieties and had so much more fun with my garden the past couple years, all because of the wonderful folks here on TEG.
Time to clean up the garden and put on a cover crop here. We've had so much rain this year...all year long. I've got mushrooms and algae growing all over my yard and the grass is as green as April. And I live on a hilltop! No kidding! Wish I could send some of this rain to you folks who really need it. But I guess we're supposed to have an easier winter this year...or maybe that's just me thinking I deserve one anway.
Here's a few pics from the garden...
I planted 7 packets of different sunflowers this year. I love 'em. Just so happy!
And lots more dahlias (grown from seed, mostly cactus types). I love this combination of colors. Been taking flowers to everybody this summer.
Some of my pumpkin harvest and the Jumbo Pink Banana squash (see the water bath canner for size!)
These Giant Red Marconi peppers are a new staple in my garden from now on. They are so sweet and tasty...great cut up fresh with dip, or to really add a little something special to a pot of chili. I planted 8 plants and got over 2 bushels of peppers from them. Very productive!
My silly old dog thinks that 68 degrees is too cold for her. She dug herself a bed into the top of this big manure pile I have for landscaping the front of the house. (My neighbors are still wondering what I'm going to do with all that manure...ha.)
New hive stand for the bees we finally got built. It will hold up to 6 hives and is very sturdy. The rough cut is there temporarily to hold the gravel in until I put down some landscape timbers instead. The 6 posts are set in the ground (I never intend to move it...have no other good place to put the bees on my small property) and I can paint them with tanglefoot or a vaseline/baby oil mixture to keep the ants OUT. I didn't take off any honey this year since it took so long to build them back up after I lost my queen.
So it's been a good summer, although it seems like it was over too soon. I'm already plotting for next year, but I'll have to try to be sensible and scale back a little since I'm going to have my hands full for awhile.
Well, I'm going to go see who won the pumpkin contest... Take care everybody!
and your pix really made me remember how much I enjoy their sunny cheerfulness.
