Hello Fall and Saying Bye To My Summer Garden 2020

 In my small garden, a few hiccups but I was pretty happy with what I was able to grow. A few things did not do so well while first timers did great, like my corn, new variety of zinnias and below, Brandywine Pink heirloom tomatoes.  

The seed packet I purchased had a photo of RomaVF/container variety, from Ferry-Mores.

When the plants started to fruit, they were round and were growing huge!  I was just about to take the plants out. The huge green tomatoes were not turning color until one morning, I saw some a few of the tomatoes has some color.  I looked on Ferry-Morse website and saw that they looked like their Brandywine Pink.  Not disappointed but I'm glad I did not take them out.  The Brandywine tomatoes take 90 - 120 days for maturity.  Phew! 

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The plants needed to be stake.  The tomatoes were very heavy, beautiful and tasty.  

I did roast some and put them into freezer containers for winter cooking. 

I will mark the seed packet for next time.

Tonda di Parigi carrots and French Breakfast radishes

Seeds from Botanical Interests

Half of my bed I have more Tonda di Parigi carrots, Fireball blend zinnia (I do not see them on their website at this time), and Calliope blend carrots. Botanical Interests seeds.

Opie loves eating carrots.

I can't believe that tomorrow will be the first day of fall.  This summer flew by so fast, but I can't wait for next summer.  I have my list of what I want to plant next year.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  Have a wonderful and blessed day.

Cosmos

 It has been a long while since I lasted posted.  I need to do some catching up.  So lets start with these beauties, Cosmos.

 A sweet gift from a dear friend, Bev had sent me seeds from Renee's Garden.  They were the Dancing Petticoat blend and I bought some seeds from Botanical Interests.  It was their Double Click Blend.  So I had an amazing variety of cosmos.

 Double Click

 Sea Shell

Versailles

 Amazing

 It was sad when their season ended.  I had hoped that the cosmos would have a longer growing period, but in my area this year, we had a very humid summer.  That brought a lot of powdery mildew to them.  But I enjoyed every bit of what I was able to grow and enjoy in beautiful bouquets.

Sitting In My Garden

 This has been a difficult summer for my garden.  The sudden heat wave that we had a couple of weeks ago was just too much for a lot of my plants.  I lost 3 of my cucumbers, scorched tomatoes and 7 of my roses, gone.  So sad, but maybe it is time to rethink my garden layout.  I will not replace the roses that I lost.  After the summer season I will do some adjustments.

 One of my Cosmo flowers just bloomed and it is a beauty.  A dear friend sent me a seed packet of a Cosmo mix called "dancing petticoats, from Renee's Garden.  The mix includes the blend of "Seashells, photo above, "Psyche and "Versailles".  The colors on the packet mentions a range of amazing colors.  So I can't wait for the others to start blooming.

The heat not only effected the plants, but our winged friends as well.  We found dead birds and bees too. The crows would sit on our lawn and pant.  I set up in my garden a makeshift bird bath for them.  I had to fill it up a few times on those extremely hot days.  For now, I will just leave it until I buy an actual birdbath, but I do not think they care what it looks like.  They love having it around.  When I step out into the backyard, there is usually one or several birds drinking from it.

 Sunset

A little bird thinking where it wants to go next or just enjoying the late afternoon.

 A rose bush trying to recover.  Let's see how the rest of the summer goes.