Last Harvest

Yesterday, the last day of autumn, I harvested the last of the lettuce and spinach, plus one sad radish. The temperature then dropped 20°F and the snow started. Long growing season!

I will not mow the lawn in December

My neighbor is mowing his lawn on December 10. Predicted snowfall tonight. At noon it is damp, heavily overcast and 33 °F. The lawn does not  need it.

The end

Last night's freeze marked the end for the Swiss chard. The spinach, lettuce and radishes suffered but might survive a little longer. I picked and ate a small, yummy radish that might be my only one from the fall crop.

02 November 2012 quick walk

Swiss chard and lettuce harvest continues.

Radish and spinach, nothing yet, but we have not given up.

 Will the Perilla return from seed? We hope.

 The spice garden.
Anyone need fresh baby cilantro, dill, curly parsley, sage, thyme, chives, edible mums, oregano, rosemary.... free! you pick!

Raspberry work

Tied up the tall canes to the trellis.
Three bags of chopped maple leaves into the beds.
Next year will be a better raspberry year.

Final harvest

Peppers, eggplants, pumpkins and tomatoes are done.

Homemade from scratch pumpkin pie.

Freeze

I looks like we had a frost while I was away last week, but it is 28 °F now and I expect most of the summer garden will be done.

The front walk

I am very happy with the way the front walk looks after the first year, entering its second autumn..,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frost!

First light frost of the season last night. Good thing I covered up the beds. Let's see if the tomatoes survived.

Radishes and lettuce planted a couple weeks ago are starting to look good.

The aster blossoms

Honeysong purple Stokes Aster has its first bloom on the coldest morning since spring.

Mr. Stripey and friends

I hope the vines did not freeze overnight.

Lawn mowing #9.5

Less than two weeks since the last time and only one half of the lawn area needed it.
Next time: save the clippings for the compost rather than direct mulching.

Garden pictures from today

Harvest time. Largest carrot I have ever pulled from the ground.

Last year's mum is looking great

The mum's now-crowded setting

 A little sedum and friends

 The snake root looks great and will all winter

 The David phlox making another batch of bright white blossoms next to the kale

Rain

0.25" last night in a nice thunderstorm

17 March 2012

I killed the Royal Hogweed -er, cut down the trumpet vine. The bugs, bird droppings, and blossom droppings were unpleasant beneath it. 
-Also cut down tree at sw corner - weed
-Moved the clamodis and
-The rose I moved last fall is growing in both places
-New today: parilla, sun flowers, tarragon,

Planted Spinach

Fall spinach in the ground in Box #2.
2 x 3 foot rows.
Teton hybrid from Ferry-Morse

Lawn mowing #8.5

Power mower was required, but is has been more than a month and I am still on my first can of gasoline.

Homemade watermelon!

Yummy!

Today's Harvest

Chilis, tomatoes, beans and carrots. 

A close-up of that strange carrot.

Rain

about 0.5", with a chance of more on the way.

Rain

about 0.5", with a chance of more on the way.

Goldenrod

Things are turning yellow!

Rain

We have had a couple spots of rain the last few days, including the remnants of Isaac, but not much to report.

Korean eggplants

Like some alien jungle.

Currants

Finally, after years on my wish list, I have Currant bushes in the ground. Two Red Lake Ribes from Platt Hill Nursery, grown by Bailey Nurseries.

Rain

almost all day on Sunday. Lots of rain.
2"-3", depending on the source of data.

A little walk about

Grass looks dry

 Sunflower - Nice to see right outside the kitchen window

 Relocated and happy

 The wild section

 Butterfly bush attracts more bumblebees, and they fight over it.

 Front yard walk. Last year's mum is coming back well; grasses, sedum looking good.

 Kale and big grass

 Sage, grass, phlox, sedum, balloon flowers

 White snakeroot

Hydrangea on the west side is in full bloom.

More new plantings

In the front, along the walk:

Leptodermis Oblonga (Chinese Leptodermis), left

Stokesia laevis, Honeysong Purple, Stokes Aster, right

from The Planter's Palette in Winfield, with Cedar Bark Chips from Platt Hill Nursery in Bloomingdale.

Three from The Planter's Palette in Winfield.

Veronica 'Royal Pink' Speedwell in the east garden by the side stairs.

Persicaria Polymorpha Giant Fleeceflower on south fence opposite kitchen sink, along with the

Gloriosa Daisy, Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia 'Denver Daisy' and a transplanted

Russian Sage from the front walk garden.