November 3, 2020 Need to get manure

 So we are having a 70 degree week.  Cleaning out the pots and yard.  Wilson kept the begonia and the geranium inside so we still have those.

We put them out in the morning and in at night.

I also have my basil plant.  

I need to do more cleaning out of the garden.  Just looked at a website about what to cut back in the fall. It seems the ones not to cut back are only to attract birds?  I don't know.  it is looking messy out there

October 16, 2020

 When we got back from our long trip,  there were still cucumbers and zucchini in the garden

 

But what has been so nice this year is the beautiful colors that we did not get last year due to the early freeze. 

It is now the 19th and everything is still blooming even the red ones near the pine tree.  

a last rose

will the kale survive until we get home from San Diego?

I don't think the impatiens will make it.

The begonia got so big this year

Here is my prize: the geranium that Alma gave me in April

On one of my last bike rides.  Got to 1000 miles!

This was on the Highline Canal near Quincy.

The basil plant is in the house, hopefully it will survive until we get home

Aug 30 New totals and did some cleaning out

 And while cleaning out, found 3 Z and 8 Cukes.

New total:  (drum roll please)  49 zucchini, 72 Cucumbers, still only 4 summer squash and 5 butternut squash.

Busy harvest

I love how gladiolas just show up. The plant looks like just leave and suddenly color.

Made zucchini relish. And then I made zucchini yogurt dark brown sugar chocolate chip coconut oil bread that is so rich. Like brownies.

Lemon Ginger carrot soup for the freezer.
 

August 21, 2020 Total so far 40 zuch 49 Cuke 4 Summer Sq

 Not sure the problem with the summer squash

So it's been the craziness or making breads.   I have made at least 25ga loaves of Zucchini bread.  Probably more as I have lost count.

The new recipe this year is dark Chocolate

Yesterday I was a bit perturbed at my guests. They like this one recipe of yogurt and choc chip. Well, I took out blueberry yogurt by mistake and they did not like it. I had some of these dark Chocolate chip cut in pieces and put those out. The woman ate 6 pieces of the small dark bread. Sometimes my guests, and we have had so many this summer, are a bit rude.

Zucchini chips have been really good. Making more today.  

Tom and I have had  zucchini boats one day and I hope to make another one this week as Tom found another "baseball bat" this morning.

The refrigerator is now full of pickles.  5 Bread and butter and they are floating again.  And 16 dill and THAT IS IT. I  just cannot make any more.

I have been serving cucumber dill salad to guests and that uses up the cucumbers.

I've given away 10 of the zucchini. 

Japanese beetles have eaten the cosmos this year.  I have these beautiful yellow marigolds in the garden but have not transplanted due to the intense heat. It has been 97 or above for weeks now and no rain.  Our grass looks terrible.  My potted plants are surviving.  I am home only 2 more weeks and not sure what to do with all of them.

before we leave I will pick the butternut squash and put in the basement.  this next week is carrot week.  Must get those out.

And need to make more pesto.

The cherry tomatoes are very tiny but i continue to get the other tomatoes. They are on my window sill. So tomatoes and peppers have been good this year.  

August 10, 2020 back from Jackson Hole

The count so far is 29 zucchini, 37 cucumbers and 4 summer squash.  Still getting kale.  Lots of butternut squash in there.  So glad to have that great dill plant!

I made zucchini lasagna.  It was a ton of work as you are supposed to grill the mandolin sliced lasagna. Well, Tom mandolin-sliced them and I started to grill but it was not working.  So I put them in the oven.  I feel like they got rubbery.  Alex and Tom liked it though.

This is funny but I thought the orange ones were going to turn red but I think I have 2 different plants in the pot

I gave the BB gun back and wish I had not as there was another evil rabbit eating the drought-stressed front yard.

 I made cucumber dill salad every day.

 

July 26, 2020

Well, the zucchini harvest is just very lame this year.

But tonight we ate the broccoli!

I made some pickles last week but hope to make more dill this week.

Running out of Zucchini bread so made more on Saturday. The dark chocolate zucchini bread is like a dessert.

Tomatoes and peppers doing really well.  Just one summer squash growing.

I think the garden is just so chaotic. 

July 15, 2020 Back from Utah

So, Debbie wanted the tomatoes but not the zucchini.  The count is 5 zucchini, a couple big ones for bread or stuffed, and one great summer squash that I put in my egg this morning!

First time for broccoli

Kale and still lettuce.Must cut that

Still have blossom end rot on some of the tomatoes.  will feed them milk and I fertilized when I got home yesterday.

July 2, 2020 Wind and powery mildew

It has been hot, dry and windy.

All the marigolds that I planted in the back flower garden died. Have no idea why.


A big wind blue little tomatoes everywhere.

The cucumbers already have powdery mildew.  Sprayed something Laura Flanders told me about, a mixture of 1 teaspoon epsom salts and 1 t baking soda as well as neem oil on the plants.

The success has been the milk in the tomato plants.

bummer that that dahlia is looking sick.  Too small of a pot. I really do need larger pots for many things.  A future plan.

First squash on the way June 28, 2020

Enjoying all the peas

Dahlia did not open in time.  

My fushcia seems to have died so I put in something else.  It is kind of a weed but the flowers are pretty.  

I have fed the tomato plant with blossom end rot the skim milk twice now.

June 25, 2020 Blossom end rot but other than that....

Lots of peas. Made Chicken rice and used the snow peas and snap peas to make assam sambal

Tom found these white (shelves) as he cleaned out the garage and we are hoping some of the cukes will go right up there.

Picked this one up at King Soopers, echinachea.  Needed something there. Hope it survives. Alma's hydrangea is not looking good.  And for some reason all the marigolds are dying.

Dug out that one rose bush that had not blossomed in years.  Fed the others with the coffee tea grinds and with plenty of water to soak in. 

Last week this snap dragon looked awful.  Unlike Petunias, they die and then it takes 2 weeks to return

excited about these! I think they are Early Girl

First red ones

 Love this pink one. These just spread around.  A person on the street had so many of these in a bed and now I get it. They don't plant them every day.

Well, Salvia are pretty much over.

These were $1 each at KS so made this little succulent garden

So this is one of those echineacia that came back. The poppy behind JUST stopped blooming.

I think the lettuce is done.  I was going to replant but decided against it.  No blossoms on the zucchini yet so a bit anxious about that.