2012 in review

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Lightly Frosted Autumn Arrives

Light frost three days in a row in my garden gave me with the imperative to harvest the last of the peppers, a very few beans, and a trio of green tomatoes.

Multi-colored peppers and purple and green bean, a trio of green tomatoes mark the end of warm weather garden

 

Bells red, green, purple, and yellow turning make me smile.

 

Sweet mild peppers plentiful and bright

Season’s right to warm up with Sweet Potato Pie!

 

How About Those Tomatoes?

They’re in the jars and the freezer boxes too! Despite not quite enough rain and the early summer heat in the 100’s in June and  July I was blessed with plenty to store for later. I really like the different colored tomatoes, each has it’s own wonderful flavour characteristics.

Color, color. Colour, colour!

Sampling of a day’s pickings including the Pink Brandywines which it turns out really are as big as the package picture! Quite the handful were these.

Yellow Brandywines along with these red beauties.

I kept some separate by color, but also mixed several jars with all the different colors just because………

It was a good tomato year! It made me tired and very happy many summer days to put them away for the many uses we find in our always cooking kitchen.

Happy gardener in straw hat, glad to be all done with this year’s tomato crop, don’t you just love it when you take a fuzzy glary picture like this that reminds you of how young you are inside?

But still there are plenty late tomatoes for everyday fresh eating!

How Does My Garden Grow Month After Hailstorm

I am relieved to show one month after the hailstorm that my garden grows. Always amazes me to witness life bursting from the earth!

 

Good Morning!

Japanese Red Noodle Beans Grow to Three Feet Long! Very Decorative, But I Have Yet to Find How Best to Prepare for Eating

New Compost Bins from Palettes by the Japanese Red Noodle Pole Bean Fence and Tomato Plant Box in Foreground

View From the Road Toward the North

Good Day! Day Lilly

Toward the East Side Garden View

Tomato Blooms Among Lush Green Brandywines

Tomatoes Flourish and Bloom

Watermelon Plants Looking South

A Couple Weeks Later, the Corn Was Sent Askew Again by a High Winds Storm, But the Ears are Fine

Sunflower Proved Hardy After the Hailstorm

Rattlesnake Beanpoles

Strawberry Plants Continue to Spread

Crooked Closely Planted Rows of Strawberry Popcorn

Top of the Morning to You!

Gladiolus Greetings!

Purple Hulled Peas Grow Beside Tennessee Dent Corn

Tomato Plants Recover from Hailstorm, Daylilies and Glads Bloom

Just a quick update on the garden after the hailstorm the tomato plants mostly survived and recovered, we’ve been busy as bees, so no time for more.

Daylilies, I Think These Qualify as ‘Eye Candy’, I’m Borrowing My Sister’s Canon Rebel to Photograph Today (a step above my usual)

Covering for No-till Box Tomatoes, Will Cover with Leaves Next

Tomato Replants Looking Good

Tomato Blooms on Pink Brandywine Plant that Had Been Hailed Upon

Gladiolus Returned and Multiplied into Two and a Half as Many as Last Year!

You can see I’ve got lots of weeding to do around the edges despite the no-till tomatoes in the boxes. My dear husband helps with his trusty old bulky tiller between the peas, corn, and bean rows (don’t know how he thinks that jarring machine is fun to run, LOL!) I leave you with the pretty glads and wish you happy gardening and garden dreaming too. 😀

P.S. One more update on the hail pelted cornrow.

Italian Flint Corn Earring After the Hailstorm, Amazingly the Stalks All Stood Up and Began Forming Them Immediately After the Storm