I have never done a fall garden before. It always stressed me out, knowing I'd have to kill some plants to make room for new seeds/seedlings, and trying to schedule it out and figure out which ones will be done producing when and how early to plant the new stuff.... I haven't done succession planting, either. It is kind of difficult to do when you have a little garden.
You'll do just fine! (Try having a wee garden and doing a fall AND winter garden...good times, good times...) It is difficult pulling those happy, beautiful plants...but it is worth it in the end, it is. If nothing else it is lots of fun still harvesting goodies in early October.
So you are from SW Mitten State, I see! Michigan is my motherland as well!
Beautiful Gaillardia! That is a happy flower.
Hope you feel better soon,
@karenerwin. I'm glad your mom called you back! Good luck with the muffin recipe hunting. Don't you hate losing a great recipe? Maybe find a good nut bread recipe and add the zuc to it? Would probably mean removing some of the 'wet' component...
I don't mean 'glad'...but glad to hear I'm not the only one who has seen a dud tomato plant.
Message understood.
Thanks for the electrolyte tip, did that with our flock today and they enjoyed it.
*Thank you* for that salsa recipe,
@Wee Farmer Sarah! Oh, I'll have to try that one. Yum! Plus there is not a pound of sugar in it. Yay!
Your garden looks terrific,
@Acre4Me! Those watermelon radish are such fun; they look fantastic in anything, really. Especially fun when you quarter them and sprinkle with black sesame seeds.
And your wee chicks! They look so cute and happy in their run! How old are they, again?
Sorry about your pumpkins...hope those strawberries can recover and make it to next year.
I love the flop down and dust bathing. No wonder we get folks worried their chicks are having fits.
Yes, that startled Hubby at first. Now he is at the "I cannot believe what big hollows those little chicks make" stage.
Happily, I grew up around small parrots, which do all kinds of ridiculous things, and have wanted chickens for so long I knew what to expect! They've been shavings/dust bathing in their coop for weeks anyhow. It is the funniest thing...One of the EE girls found a slightly damp spot in the run where Hubby had dumped the water from a container he'd accidentally left overnight (big rainstorm). Oh my goodness, chickie heaven! She flopped around in that spot for twenty minutes.
Your lunch & dinner sound fantastic! Yum! And don't we all hate wasting time & space on a tomato plant that does nothing? I'm on the fence about "Pear" cherry tomatoes. Our first year: fantastic! Second year: the blandest things we'd ever tasted. Boo. Also, the past few years "Black Krim" has not performed as well as it used to for me. Just saved/began fermenting a bunch of seeds from a good-looking one that a bug got to...maybe the plants from that good fruit will do well next year? If not...To the curb with Black Krim!
@WthrLady @penny1960 Sorry about the late/lost packages. :/ TBH I've had *far* worse luck with UPS than USPS...which is saying a fair amount!
It was another hooooot, muggy day today. Still, managed to bring a half-dozen tomatoes in, a bunch of greens, and collected a lot of seedheads from our poppy and nigella plants. Does the latter count as "in the garden"? With all the rain the past few days, only a few containers needed watering. Scrounged for green beans but didn't want to pull the tiny ones just yet.
Thinking about pulling the pepper plants—not even a bud off them yet! Strange.
Mutant "Paul Robeson" tomato. Looks like two may have grown together?
"Blueberry" are coming back in again!
Calendula. Not enough to do anything with (varmints got the others), but we have enjoyed them and will save the seeds.
Our hibiscus. Just love the colour combinations.
"Dragon Tongue" bush bean blossom. This variety can get tall and needs stakes, IMO.
Another mutant tomato, though not so scary as the other. These are both "Green Zebra". Round is the normal shape for this variety; not sure what is going on with the one on the right! It's Freak Tomato Day, I guess. Any thoughts/ideas? Could this be some oddball cross or a throwback?
The wages of dirt-bathing in damp dirt is dirtiness. Nice job, chickie.
Happy gardening and harvesting, all!
I'm so looking forward to the cool crisp fall days ahead...this would kill me.
