Indian Summer in the garden or why we still have peppers growing
Posted: 2011/10/09 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Balloon Flower, Coleus, Cut Flower Gardening, Flower Gardening, Football Mum, Garden, Gardening, Home, Indian Summer, Midwest Gardening, Mums, raised bed gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Sunflower, trellis gardening, Zinnia Leave a comment- Peppers
- One man down of many
- Hot pink
- Seeded head
- Pretty fall Zinnia’s still going strong
- I need to cut these
- I have been letting the Zinnia’s go.
- Light pink Zinnia
- Pink Zinnia
- White mums
- Spooky Coleus
- Football Mum
- Football Mum. I need to move it so it can get really big.
- One lone Balloon Flower decided to make a 2nd bloom appearance
- This one is just getting her groove on.
- Marigold’s
- Dried sunflower carcass
- HUGE Sunflower head and my really ugly hand
- Blackberry Tiger Lillies have gone to seed. Let me know if you want some!
- The neighbor saw a snake in our garden
- MiniMe found a toad in the garden
- One eyed Toad
- C’mon over, we are ready for you
I took a good look at the garden last Thursday and took some pics. I am pleased that we have been blessed with almost 2 weeks of good warm weather which has allowed my late tomatoes and peppers to keep growing. We have had two light frosts already, but neither of them made to the raised beds or the retaining wall. I will have to pull off the produce by next Saturday or Sunday depending on temps and frost. So I hope they grow like heck this week. I also have a ton of clean-up and fall bed creating to do, some plant moving to plan and accomplish and a yard to get ready for the hood Halloween Decorating contest. And I must have more mums and spring bulbs. Now sure how I’m going to pull all of that off in the 50 hour work weeks I have going on right now. But I’m betting you won’t be hearing from me as much. But for now The Husband and the Destroyer are at the game and MiniMe is off exploring on her bike. I am going to start the laundry and pick a project from the very long list of things I need and want to do. Meanwhile enjoy these pics of the garden in Indian Summer.
PS. Wasn’t the moon just awesome last night. I was out enjoying in until around 4:30. I good time was had by all.
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