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MeganD1704 wrote: »I liked my white balloon flower so much I bought a blue one this spring. It was a later planting and the plant went into transplant shock so i didn't expect it to bloom this year. Well, it happened. The first photo is it last night, about to pop, and the second is it this morning. These really are fun flowers. Native to Asia and hardy for USDA zones 3-8. Taxonomical name: Platycodon Grandiflorus and it comes in pink, white, and a couple of shades of purple.
wow this is so cool! I dont think I've ever seen one before.
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My first attempt at growing potatoes (in a container) and I ended up with 6 lb. Not too bad. It seems early to harvest but everything I read said to harvest about 2 weeks after the plants die back. Not bad, not great but definitely worth trying again next summer with some tweaking.
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As Douglas Adams wrote, "Best laid plans of mice...."
My plan was to do a few chores, get a little food shopping done, and then take the canoe for an upstream workout. I was either going to go from right near home, go upstream two miles to avoid the first crowded, less pleasant, and steep stretch, or go on up maybe 19 miles to a part of the river I don't see that often.
Well.... When I went food shopping, I went to the co-op on the north side of town because they have some things that aren't carried in the south store. I forgot there is there's a garden store next door. Since they're open Sundays, I went in to pick up seed for my fall garden. I've been meaning to make a special trip to a garden center way north of town or one way south. Or out on the west end. Each would be a special trip, and it just wasn't happening. So I took advantage of the windfall and selected two kinds of beets, one spinach, a radish, and some sugar snap peas. I came home and put the groceries away and got busy doing soil prep. I got things filled up. I also went ahead and put in a little more lettuce since I still had seeds. The seeds I planted a couple weeks ago are seedlings now, but why not go ahead and add more? I also picked up another cute basil plant at Trader Joe's for the cost of a bunch of cut basil. Instead of putting it in the ground in the garden, I put it in a big pot and put it on the deck. Maybe this will keep it safer from the giant yard rats (deer) that maraud my yard.
A lot of what I planted is "underplanted," and I hope it does ok. I wasn't ready to rip out the lemon cucumbers or the eggplant. I guess this means I won't plant garlic mid-October unless something else dies back by then.
Since paddling didn't happen, and since I think I have ripe prune plums, I might go pick some and put them in the dehydrator. I should check on the Asian pears. They should be almost ripe. But first - a G&T.5 -
Yesterday's harvest (not including the chard because I picked that after the picture).
Today's lunch was some of the Berkeley Pink Tie Dye tomatoes and fresh basil.
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As Douglas Adams wrote, "Best laid plans of mice...."
Actually it was Robert Burns in his poem "To A Mouse" (one of my favorites. Learned it in grade school and can still quote a lot of it 50 years later)
"Wee, sleekit, cowrin, timorous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! . . . "Yesterday's harvest (not including the chard because I picked that after the picture).
Today's lunch was some of the Berkeley Pink Tie Dye tomatoes and fresh basil.
Yummy! Never heard of that tomato variety but they look a lot like the Cherokee Purple I planted 2 summers ago. Looked funny but man, were they tasty! My bedtime snack last night was a bowl of yellow pear tomatoes drizzled with balsamic glaze (and I hardly made a dent in the tomatoes).1 -
As Douglas Adams wrote, "Best laid plans of mice...."
Actually it was Robert Burns in his poem "To A Mouse" (one of my favorites. Learned it in grade school and can still quote a lot of it 50 years later) "Wee, sleekit, cowrin, timorous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! . . . "
Robert Burns wrote that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Douglas Adams was writing about something else. Near the end of Hitchhiker's Guide, Slartibartfast was speaking about the Vogons destroying the Earth and said, "The best laid plans of mice." Arthur said, "and men," referencing Burns. Slartibartfast said, "I don't think men had much to do with it." I haven't read that book in 30 years; funny what sticks in yer head.
Now back to gardening!
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As Douglas Adams wrote, "Best laid plans of mice...."
Actually it was Robert Burns in his poem "To A Mouse" (one of my favorites. Learned it in grade school and can still quote a lot of it 50 years later) "Wee, sleekit, cowrin, timorous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! . . . "
Robert Burns wrote that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Douglas Adams was writing about something else. Near the end of Hitchhiker's Guide, Slartibartfast was speaking about the Vogons destroying the Earth and said, "The best laid plans of mice." Arthur said, "and men," referencing Burns. Slartibartfast said, "I don't think men had much to do with it." I haven't read that book in 30 years; funny what sticks in yer head.
Now back to gardening!
Douglas Adams didn't write it, he quoted Burns. "Write it" implies original creation.0 -
Not so happy and happy, not so happy first... so I put sweet potato slips in ground on morning of 8/27. They were shocked and droopy pretty quickly. As soon as night fell on the way back from a walk, I checked on them to see critters ate some of their leaves, but not all so immediately I covered them up. I was so upset, irritated...they weren't so pretty now but I was really worried about their survival. Next morning I took protectors off plants to find them perky and green and well despite less leaves. A week later they're thriving, so despite some critters munching, I'm thrilled over this! This is the before critters munched...
Not so happy...no luck whatsoever with rosemary and basil but I'll keep trying. However, happy this is lovely lavender two months after sprouting up...
Unfortunately my Bell Pepper plants will be uprooted as they are basically dead and haven't had a chance to produce fruit. Five months after planting seeds, critters decided they were delicious after I had already deemed them "safe." Fortunately I have plenty of seeds and I'll do it again and protect them this go around... it just stinks to start over this late in the game when I should be getting ready to pick peppers for stuffed peppers and I'd be getting ready to do that now...oh well l, it's a learning experience.
Only happy here...one month after seeing the first little green tomato, it's filled out so much and is a peachy orange-ish color! There are many tomatoes out there now growing on the vines. I am love love loving this...
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I am so rich in figs just now, it’s fig everything over here. Even the neighbours are getting tubs full.
I planted garlic last weekend for harvest next year, and tomatoes, zucchini and a row of green beans. In a couple of weeks I will be sowing kale, spinach and broccoli. I also found a small amount of Foxglove seeds and had some spare pots, I didn’t get the rest of that pack to grow, so fingers crossed.3 -
MelanieCN77 wrote: »I am so rich in figs just now, it’s fig everything over here. Even the neighbours are getting tubs full.
I planted garlic last weekend for harvest next year, and tomatoes, zucchini and a row of green beans. In a couple of weeks I will be sowing kale, spinach and broccoli. I also found a small amount of Foxglove seeds and had some spare pots, I didn’t get the rest of that pack to grow, so fingers crossed.
Won't you be, won't you be, won't you be my neighbor???
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I love having a garden every summer; I learn so much from what/where/how to plant. I just wish I'd remember it all come the next summer. 3
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@LoveyChar, do you know what type of lavendar that is? I know there are a bunch of kinds, most not hardy here. The ones I've grown have been narrow-leaved and thickly-leaved, gray-ish green foliage, and yours is very different, so I'm intrigued!0
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@LoveyChar, do you know what type of lavendar that is? I know there are a bunch of kinds, most not hardy here. The ones I've grown have been narrow-leaved and thickly-leaved, gray-ish green foliage, and yours is very different, so I'm intrigued!
It was a seed (Sow Easy by Ferry Morse) but it only says lavender, not what type, on it. My daughter requested lavender to put under her pillow, as she heard it leads quickly to a peaceful lull. I'll be excited to see some flowers but not expecting any until spring (but not sure of that, either, as it may be sooner).1 -
I love having a garden every summer; I learn so much from what/where/how to plant. I just wish I'd remember it all come the next summer.
I bought this recently. I actually got as far as entering my perennials but haven't done anything with the annuals or vegetables yet. It has a page for each plant so you can enter the common name, scientific name, where you bought it, date you planted it, seeds or bedding plant, and a lot of space for notes and comments including harvest dates.
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@LoveyChar, do you know what type of lavendar that is? I know there are a bunch of kinds, most not hardy here. The ones I've grown have been narrow-leaved and thickly-leaved, gray-ish green foliage, and yours is very different, so I'm intrigued!
It was a seed (Sow Easy by Ferry Morse) but it only says lavender, not what type, on it. My daughter requested lavender to put under her pillow, as she heard it leads quickly to a peaceful lull. I'll be excited to see some flowers but not expecting any until spring (but not sure of that, either, as it may be sooner).
TBH, I think you have something that self seeded in your pot. The only lavender on the Ferry Morse sight has thin silvery leaves.2 -
Sadly I think that’s the case, looks very oak-ish to me@LoveyChar, do you know what type of lavendar that is? I know there are a bunch of kinds, most not hardy here. The ones I've grown have been narrow-leaved and thickly-leaved, gray-ish green foliage, and yours is very different, so I'm intrigued!
It was a seed (Sow Easy by Ferry Morse) but it only says lavender, not what type, on it. My daughter requested lavender to put under her pillow, as she heard it leads quickly to a peaceful lull. I'll be excited to see some flowers but not expecting any until spring (but not sure of that, either, as it may be sooner).
TBH, I think you have something that self seeded in your pot. The only lavender on the Ferry Morse sight has thin silvery leaves.
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moonangel12 wrote: »
Sadly I think that’s the case, looks very oak-ish to me@LoveyChar, do you know what type of lavendar that is? I know there are a bunch of kinds, most not hardy here. The ones I've grown have been narrow-leaved and thickly-leaved, gray-ish green foliage, and yours is very different, so I'm intrigued!
It was a seed (Sow Easy by Ferry Morse) but it only says lavender, not what type, on it. My daughter requested lavender to put under her pillow, as she heard it leads quickly to a peaceful lull. I'll be excited to see some flowers but not expecting any until spring (but not sure of that, either, as it may be sooner).
TBH, I think you have something that self seeded in your pot. The only lavender on the Ferry Morse sight has thin silvery leaves.
Oh my goodness, you mean I'm babying a weed...?!? I'm kind of disgusted.3 -
moonangel12 wrote: »
Sadly I think that’s the case, looks very oak-ish to me@LoveyChar, do you know what type of lavendar that is? I know there are a bunch of kinds, most not hardy here. The ones I've grown have been narrow-leaved and thickly-leaved, gray-ish green foliage, and yours is very different, so I'm intrigued!
It was a seed (Sow Easy by Ferry Morse) but it only says lavender, not what type, on it. My daughter requested lavender to put under her pillow, as she heard it leads quickly to a peaceful lull. I'll be excited to see some flowers but not expecting any until spring (but not sure of that, either, as it may be sooner).
TBH, I think you have something that self seeded in your pot. The only lavender on the Ferry Morse sight has thin silvery leaves.
Y'all know way way more than me. Does anyone have an idea of what it could be?0 -
Oh my goodness, by oak-y you mean an oak tree! My husband says it's a weed, I am sitting here about bawling...I'm not but I feel like a fool. I do have over one hundred lavender seeds. I'll try again. Glad y'all told me...5
I am horrible at remember things from year to year, and also have some kind of mental block to actually write it down. 
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