My Garden In October 2020

 

My first fall bouquet picked October 10th from my little zinnia batch.

What a beautiful color too.

I added some red yarrow and marjoram.

A nice bright mix of colors in this seed mix.

The weather is changing and I do see white powdery mildew on the leaves, but I will leave them for a little while longer and just trim away those leaves.  I do see a few ladybug larvae on the plans. 

SUNFLOWERS - Florist's Sunny Bouquet mix from Botanical Interests

A little strip of sunflowers put a smile on this girls face.

MESCULUM MIX - Sassy salad from Botanical Interests

This morning I just picked my first harvest of lettuce.  So far so good.  Every morning I do go out to check and pick off any worms or eggs of the leaves.  I love to plant seed mixes.  You get such a beautiful variety of lettuce.  

In between the rows of lettuce and sowed Spinach, cilantro and radishes. So far they look good too.  

The background you see the peas.  They are Dwarf Grey Sugar Pea pods. A beautiful little bed here.  

I hope to continue to sow seeds of lettuce and flowers for spring.  There is just not enough time lately. Lets see what November will bring.  

Fall Gardening

This bed was prepped with a some raised bed soil, fertilized, compost and topped with worm compost.

These seedling were sown on August 26th.  They are a mesclun mix. Beautiful mix of colors too.  The seed packet called, "sassy salad mix" from Botanical Interest.  21-58 days.

They no longer show this particular mix on their webpage but they do have other blends.  Mesclun Lettuce.     I highly recommend their seeds. 

This past week we had beautiful fall like weather but next week, we will be back up into the high 90's. I will be using a shade cloth to protect them.  

 

Borage is a plant that you only need to sow once in your garden, it will reseed everywhere.   It is great for attracting bees.

My second round of zinnias. They just started to bloom this week.

I have sunflowers that are starting to open up too.  I will be posted photos of them soon. 
 

My Little Garden in August and Corn

 I can not believe we are in August.

I am very pleased with my mini crop of "Bi-Licious" sweet corn.

Burpee seeds

I did get a few cobs that had some undeveloped kernels.  Need to help out with the pollination on the next bunch.

A batch of corn fritters.  

A nice bunch of basil that was used to make pesto.  A favorite thing to make in summer and it freezes well too.

Heirloom Stupice tomatoes (Renee's Garden seeds), are starting to ripen.  A favorite of ours to grow and they are great to roast in the oven and freeze for later or add the roasted tomatoes to pasta for a quick meal. 

Now, these were supposed to be RomaVF tomatoes according to the seed packet.  They do not look like Roma tomatoes to me and they were a  container variety too, LOL!   I'm not complaining but I cant wait for them to ripen. 

 

 Dancing Girls zinnias

Burpee seeds

I love the compact growth and so many blooms.  This is one plant too.

Queen Lime Orange zinnia

Burpee seeds

A new favorite 

Thank you for visiting my blog.

I hope to start sowing for fall in a few weeks.

Blessings!

More Changes In The Graden

 I am so happy with the outcome of our latest project.  This was started last weekend and its just about finished.  I think a few stepping pavers for the little pathway too. My little lemon tree finally has tiny lemons on it.  Yay!

 I had one rose bush that needed to be removed and replanted in the rose area.  My Husband placed a long board to give the area a nice finished look and to hold the gravel in place.

 We need a few more bags to cover the back portion, along the wall.  I think we can add a few nice containers there along with a nice bench, will see.  I'm just thrilled!

The roses have all been trimmed down and now they wait for spring to bloom.  The beautiful pop of color of yellow and orang is a calendula plant that I started from seed.  I had them growing in the same area last year, but they did not do so well, but this year, so much better. I'm sorry that I did not sow more, next time.

My Daughter was home for a visit last weekend, so she was giving us a little help.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.    Have a wonderful day.

Beds of Mix Lettuce

 I started sowing my lettuce in late summer of 2019 and so far, my beds of lettuce are amazing  beautiful.  I am very pleased with the seed packets from Botanical Interests.

List of seeds: "Gourmet Baby Greens", "Sassy Salad", miniature butterhead "Tom Thumb" and just added to the beds "Little Gem" romaine.

 Amazing colors that make up for this time of the year when my flowers are not in bloom.

 Seedlings of "little Gem" and "Tom Thumb".

These were just planted into the garden this weekend.

 The parsley, violas, cilantro, spinach have been good growing companions for the lettuce.  I have some carrot seedlings that are beginning to sprout.

It has been the best fall/winter garden yet!