My Garden

[QSis]

Saliha, my one hummingbird drank nectar out of my Scarlet Runner Bean blossoms the other day!

That's the main reason I grow them, since I find the beans a bit tougher than other varieties.

Your photos are lovely!

Lee

 

[Saliha]

More and more flowering in the garden - poppies and cornflowers:

Dahlias:

Rose:

 

[Saliha]

Peas:

Poppies are just so charming:

Now only what I need is that the sun will paint these to red:

 

[Saliha]

English marigolds:

Anise hyssops and catnip mints:

I harvested a little:

Sage:

Zucchini, pumpkins and shark fin melons:

Zucchinis and giant pumpkin:

 

[Saliha]

Aster:

Pink rose:

Garden nasturtium:

 

[Johnny West]

I love the roses and had gorgeous one's when I lived in D.C.

 

[Saliha]

Common soapwort:

Flowers of dahlia are now full open:

Garden today:

Almost all lettuces are eated (but I still have the second frame full), anise hyssop is full of bees, beans are soon ready for harvest and tomatoes in yellow pots beside the wall have quite much tiny red fruits.


Runner beans, a lot of flowers:

At the left tomatoes.


Tomatoes are still green:

Zucchinis are ready to harvest - and to eat:

I made yesterday zucchini lasagna.


One giant pumpkin is growing:

Yellow zucchinis are ready to harvest too:

I have also one round pumpkin. I think it´s soon the time of pumpkin soup:

 

[Saliha]

View to garden:

Golden balls:

Morning glory:

Runner bean:

Garden nasturtiums:

Marmande:

Money maker:

 

[ChowderMan]

the garden differences are amazing. stuff that takes more daylight hours (?) is always far ahead of where we are - but stuff like tomatoes lag.

here the 'dream' is to get a ripe tomato by 1. July - happens infrequently in the open garden, but we get field grown tomatoes - done in 'hoop houses' - locally as early as May.

 

[Saliha]

Here is a lot of daylight hours but summer is short and here too it´s only a dream to get ripe tomatoes. Most of those I have to ripen indoors.

 

[ChowderMan]

many Germans use small glass houses/greenhouses for tomatoes -
see just to the left of the tree trunk, in the background - my neighbor's setup.... not real big, just enough for specific plants....


tomatoes are sensitive to temperature swing to pollinate

"
Optimum fruit set occurs within a very narrow night temperature range of between 60° F and 70° F. So, when tomato plants experience night temperatures lower than 55° F or above 75° F, interference with the growth of pollen tubes prevents normal fertilization. The pollen may even become sterile, thus causing the blossoms to drop.
"

and humidity plans a role as well
http://www.grow-tomato-sauce.com/tomatopollination.html

 

[Saliha]

Creepers are flowering:

 

[Saliha]

Rubber beans:

Sweet paprikas change to red:

Rucola:

Lemon basil:

 

[Saliha]

Rubber beans:

Sorry this should to be runner beans, not rubber. I don´t know if there actually is rubber beans.

 

[Johnny West]

The last I bought were rubber - went into the compost bin.

 

[QSis]

Here are a couple from my garden.

Lee

One stalk, multi-blossomed sunflower




My friend, Kathy, and the sunflower she named "Bruce" in honor of her late husband


A harvesting



My cat, Blue, enjoying the summer evening

 

[Saliha]

You have nice flowers Lee. My sunflowers don´t have flowers yet and not sure if they have time for flowering as here is already quite chilly weather.

Looks yummy harvest.

 

[QSis]

Saliha, do you grow eggplant?

If so, how do you use them?

Lee

 

[Saliha]

No, I haven´t tried eggplants. When I have used them, I usually make moussaka or use them like zucchinis. They aren´t very familiar vegetable for Finnish cuisine.

 

[Saliha]

Like the little suns in the garden - English marigolds:

 

[Saliha]

The first tomato is finally red. I took it indoors about 10 days ago.

Yep, it´s big.

 

[Sass Muffin]

Not my garden, but rather a couple of shots of the wild turkeys that pay a visit on my sons property each morning and evening.

They come up from the wooded area out back and make their way down.

Since the house is just across the road from Independence Dam State park, there are a lot of interesting creatures running around.

 

[QSis]

That's a nice-looking monster tomato you have there, Saliha! Worth waiting for!

Sass, we're seeing more wild turkeys in suburbs closer and closer to Boston. A couple of days ago, a friend visiting me from Hawaii stopped while driving through Marblehead to take a photo of a flock crossing a main street.

I heard that they could be nasty.

Lee

 

[Sass Muffin]

They seem to be very curious and we figure they've been well established in the area.

That said, I'd never be brave enough to get close enough to find out how nasty they could be lol

 

[Saliha]

Pumpkin harvest:

 

[Saliha]

Last shark fin melons:

(1,2 kg and 3 kg)


Finally few sunflowers opened:

 

[Luckytrim]

Saliha - I wish that I could walk your garden ..... it reminds me of Granny's garden..... back before city life took me over..........

 

[QSis]

The last of the Ichiban eggplants. I grilled them with olive oil and Italian seasoning.




Part of my waning garden on a Fall morning before sunrise.

 

[Saliha]

Nice colors in your garden, Lee. In here all leaves have fallen already, few times we have got some snowflakes and maybe soon we get more. Garden cleaning is still going. Temperatures go under the zero at the nights, so winter is almost here.

 

[QSis]

Time for soup and stew and chili and pot roasts, Saliha. And, for you, knitting!

How is the training coming for your new career?

Lee