My Garden

[Saliha]

Sunny day in the garden - rose beans are flowering:

More rose beans in other box:

I can still walk through the garden - the path is almost overgrown:

Time of poppies:

 

[Saliha]

Sunshine in the garden:

 

[Saliha]

Zucchini/pumpkin growth has became so large that it´s difficult to get to one picture:

And it grows and grows and grows...

 

[QSis]

As usual, your garden photos are wonderful, Saliha!

I was particularly struck by the photo of your lovely Morning Glory!

I am not a religious person, but I think of myself as a "spiritual person". There is something about Morning Glories that makes one think the light of ..... something .... ... some power .... is shining through to you!

Lee

Saliha's Morning Glory



This variety is Heavenly Blue (aptly named)



This is a self-seeding pain in the butt!

 

[Saliha]

Sunflower has just opened:

I have almost 100 sunflowers at this year. If weather stays enough warm... I will have a lot of extra sunshine in my garden.

 

[Saliha]

Pumpkin/shark fin melon/squash growth in one picture (still few meters leave out from the right side):

 

[Saliha]

Soon it´s a harvest time:

Few more sunny and warm days are needed.


Rose beans:

 

[Saliha]

Round squash:

The biggest shark fin melon:

Giant pumpkins:

Another - bigger one:

 

[Saliha]

My tomatoes:

https://youtu.be/itTL-fo-y4E

 

[Saliha]

Round squash, 4 kg:

 

[Saliha]

Here is already a feeling of the autumn on the air but garden still has a lot of flowers. Morning glory:

Clarkia amoena (Farewell to Spring):

I like the name - it´s suitable for this time of the year *snif*


Corn poppy:

Canary nasturtium (Tropaeolum peregrinum):

 

[Saliha]

The first shark fin melon was ready to harvest:

5 kg

 

[Saliha]

Autumn has started as the asters opened their flowers:

Runner beans:

Behind my "summer time morning coffee table".

 

[Saliha]

More flowers - Morning glory:

(Those are for Lee. )


Corn poppy:

Sunflowers beside of the garden fence:

 

[QSis]

The blue, white and yellow morning glory is a new variety to me - lovely!

I finally saw a hummingbird on my Scarlet Runner Beans last evening! Do you get hummingbirds in your garden, Saliha?

Lee

 

[Saliha]

We haven´t hummingbirds in here. They don´t live in Europe at all. Sad, they look pretty.

 

[Saliha]

The blue, white and yellow morning glory is a new variety to me - lovely!

That is a dwarf morning-glory. It´s flowers are smaller than those other Morning glory´s. There are also other color varieties:

 

[QSis]

So pretty, Saliha!

Here are a few pictures of my 2016 container garden.

My peppers did so well this year - the white/yellow variety is Sante Fe Grande - only mildly hot if I remove the seeds and membranes.

One of my sunflower plants is incredible! More than 2 dozen blooms and buds on one plant!

Lee

 

[Saliha]

Wow! I mean the sunflower is really wow and other pictures too.

Peppers look good. Nice garden.

 

[Saliha]

Garden is still flowering at September:

I harvested most of the shark fin melons yesterday and got about 30 kg. Still few are growing but not long as nights are many times quite cold.

 

[QSis]

Saliha, your sunflowers look so sturdy without being staked. I usually have to stake mine - partly because the damned squirrels run up the stalks and eat the seed heads!

Lee

 

[Saliha]

There are short stakes and support lines behind which tie stalks together but you don´t see them. Anyways, they might grow stronger without stakes. I found this article about growing process of them:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved

 

[Saliha]

The last weeks before the frosty nights and flowering still continues.

Morning glories in many colors:

Smaller sunflowers:

Runner beans give good harvest at this year:

 

[Leni]

The blue, white and yellow morning glory is a new variety to me - lovely!

I finally saw a hummingbird on my Scarlet Runner Beans last evening! Do you get hummingbirds in your garden, Saliha?

Lee

Hummingbirds are native only to the Americas. In fact when the Spaniards first saw them they thought that they were a kind of bumble bee because they were so small.

 

[Saliha]

Here is my "beach ball", 17,5 kg full of fresh pumpkin, ready for soups and pies and maybe also for jams:

 

[Saliha]

Still few flowers:

Corn poppy:

Morning glories:

Cold temperatures have damaged slightly the buds and the flowers.


Garden is emptier than before because of the harvest and autumn cleaning:

 

[Johnny West]

I never heard of pumpkin jam. Does that have a pumpkin spice flavour?

 

[Saliha]

No, pumpkin spice flavor isn´t familiar in our kitchen. This jam includes pumpkin, lemons and sugar and is good for filled cookies.

I´ll post recipe.

 

[Saliha]

My garden has dressed in red and gold again:

 

[Saliha]

I was cleaning today the compost beds and suddenly found few more shark fin melons. They were growing under the leaves and I hadn´t noticed them before. Here come the last ones of this season:

2,5 kg

from 300 to 400 grams

The biggest one feels very ripe - when I pat it, it´s like a small drum.

*goes patting melons*