Hello September!
I was out watering the garden yesterday and snapped a few pictures to share. There is still so much in bloom! The bees are especially loving the purple ornamental onions and lime light hydrangeas.
I suspect in another week they’ll be all over the autumn joy sedum.
It makes me happy that we’re able to provide the bees with “food” for at least five months out of the year.
And the pink dahlias! I wish I would have kept the tag so I could order more of those tubers!!
You can bet I’ll be doing some research this winter and picking out a boatload of them for the garden next spring. The dahlias have been a constant burst of color in the garden this summer and I’d love to have more.
My endless summer beauty hydrangeas though are a bit on the magenta side. In my last garden they had beautiful blue blooms.
It must be the PH in the soil. I’m going to have to test that to see what I need to do to get them back to blue.
The lime light hydrangeas are stunning though. I finally picked a bouquet for the house.
And the vegetable garden on the side of the house is still hanging in there.
So far I’ve counted four butternut squash growing.
And four pumpkins.
The latest round of green beans though will be grown for seed. They didn’t get picked while I was away and are too big now to eat.
Well, technically we could eat them but the beans would be tough so we’ll just dry them instead and plant them in the garden instead. 😉
I may not hit my goal of growing 365 pounds of vegetables in the garden this year, but at least I’ve had fun doing it.
How are YOUR vegetables doing? Are any of your pumpkins ready to be harvested yet?
~Mavis
Kath says
Beautiful!
Margo says
September is our hottest month so I’m picking what’s left of the tomatoes and planning the fall winter garden that I’ll start in a few weeks. Until then, I may start some seedlings indoors. Collards, kales, spinach, etc, and enjoy your garden pictures.
Nancy D says
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing
Lafn says
Mavis. Thank you for sharing your garden with beautiful allium and dahlias.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaTMIMIxX5M
cameos a public Alaskan garden. Also see the Alaska State Fair. This year winner is a 84 lb cabbage. Happy growing. Lafn
Ramona says
I didn’t plant a garden. But last fall after the mini white pumpkin I bought was ready to leave the porch I let the pumpkin decompose in my flower bed. This spring the seeds popped out of the ground with little plants. I transplanted a few and now I have 3 vines with 3 pumpkins growing. I was surprised they grew since I stuck the little plants in a not so desirable dirt patch. I also transplanted a few raspberry bushes someone left on the curbside. They are doing okay with new green leaves.
Diana says
It has been really hot here so the tomatoes are on their last leg, I’ve been picking them daily, made a lot of salsa, sauce, and tomato juice. We are getting tons of passion fruit, grapes, figs, and watermelon. I have been making raisins with the grapes and giving watermelons to all my friends. Our biggest watermelon of the 10 I’ve picked so far was 38 pounds! We cut them in half since they are so huge and share them. A lot of winter squash is still growing, and more corn, tomatillos, and sweet potatoes are on the way. It has been a busy season!
NeeNee says
Couldn’t you take the seeds from the dahlias and start from seed next year to get the same ones
We do a lot from seed
Your gardens are beautiful!!!
Great job with the space you had to work with
Heather says
What is your preferred substrate for when you dig the Dahlia’s up to store overwinter?
We had the most beautiful yellow huge dahlia bushes as a child, so many additional plants every year from the tubers splitting.