Gardening, anyone?

Teka

Jazzy, Thank You!!

PCP is pleased that I keep busy with gardening.

Deer nipped off the tops of sunflowers in the (V) garden. (

Jazzygirl

Teka

Lovely!

GmaFoley

Trying to keep garden watered - going to be somewhere around 115 at our place this week. My LE isn't gonna like that.

Gardennerd

Jazzygirl - LOVE the sunflower pic. Brought a smile for the morning. The website was a good reminder of how gardening is good for us. I often think of my gardening as my sanctuary. I don't look at is as the four letter word "w-o-r-k". The site reminded me of all the physical aspects of it. Gardening is like mothers natures yoga, it provides mental and physical stretching.

Loving all the other pics from everyone. I just love the pics!!

WenchLori

Waving hello to everyone! I've been in the basement tossing out junk and rearranging my tool box. Such fun!

I see we are all getting great veggies from our gardens. My straw bale garden has gone wild! I have tomato plants that are so big and full of tomatoes that I have to prop them up with t-posts. Loving everyone's pictures. I'll be back later to catch up on all the posts, looks like a few pages lol

My straw bale garden! Wild and very successful. I'll be doing it again next year!

M0mmyof3

Haven't been out to my garden since yesterday to water it. This afternoon we have been getting thunderstorm after thunderstorm. At least I won't have to water it tomorrow.

IntegraGirl

My garden keeps me sane! Lots of bees busy in my blooms today.

GmaFoley

The deer ate my sunflowers haha.

M0mmyof3

Oh no Gma!

GmaFoley

Sunflowers might be gone, but not the rest of the garden

Meow13

I have tomatoes and cucumbers, first time ever. It is hot but I keep the watering going.

M0mmyof3

Gotta check the garden when I go to hang out hubby's laundry today. Hopefully the rain a couple of days ago helped it.

GmaFoley

No rain in sight here. It has been 111 and 113 the last 2 days and fires south of us, so the air is full of smokey haze. It is supposed to cool off today but the house never cooled off last night.

M0mmyof3

Well my pea plants have died. Only got about a handful out othe. Usually I get a sandwich bag full

coachvicky

Good Morning Everyone!

I so enjoy reading about your gardens and seeing your pictures.

My cherry and grape tomatoes continue to produce. Zucchini plants are dead and I had them pulled up. Cucumbers look like they are about ready to stop. That is good as I have about a dozen quarts of pickles and there are only 2 of us! I have 5 cantaloupes still growing. Carrots should be ready in about a week. Herbs continue to do well as do 3 of 4 bell pepper plants and my salsa peppers.

I made pesto yesterday from the garden's basil. The house smelled so good. Unfortunately, I think I killed my Nija in the process.

I planted white radish seeds about 2 weeks ago and they are doing great.

I am thinking about buying other seeds and seeing if they will come up before fall hits. Betting they will.

Keep playing in the dirt. I read an article that cancer patients who garden eat better and are healthy.

Coach Vicky

Jazzygirl

Good afternoon friends- the dry desert is finally getting more moisture from the summer monsoons! We have had about four days of rain off and on the past week, including two good soakers yesterday. My yard is so grateful. We may get some more this afternoon too, I already see the clouds building.

I am a bit worried about my chinese pistache tree though as it is getting yellow leaves and a bit too early to see fall color changes here. It may be stressed from the heat. I will ask the tree people when they are here to prune the ash tree out front in another couple weeks what they thing is going on. The tree was planted five years ago and looks very healthy otherwise. I know sometimes when trees get stressed, the leaves talk to you.

TwoHobbies

Nan, I love your fairy gardens! Probably several pages back I posted mine. I have so much fun with them . It combines my fascination with bonsai, miniatures and gardening. I will post mine again. I had them outside a few days but the chipmunks or squirrels started digging so I have them in a sunny window now.

TwoHobbies

I havent been on in several weeks and am enjoying catching up. Jealous of all the vegetables I see and wish I had a veggie garden. My flowers are very happy this year so I thought I would show you the combo of allyssum and ageratum Iam loving. I love this so much I told my hubby I wanted to paint the door of our white house "ageratum". He said no.

Jazzygirl

Twohobbies- I love that flooring of purple flowers. Just beautiful!

Lucy55

TwoHobbies ..yep ..they certainly look like "happy flowers " to me 😃

M0mmyof3

Going to pull my dead pea plants this weekend.

Scottiemom11

Ladies, I am a month behind in post reading. Been working too much which is a blessing but I'm not keeping up with much else.

Nan, just saw your post. Next spring I would love more advice on the mini hostas. I'm going to have to curtail my big spending on gardening for a year or so but will be doing small projects for sure.

I have two hummingbirds that I have been stalking with my camera. I've only gotten one good pix so far which I still need to download to the computer. Maybe today.

Scottie

GmaFoley

Hummingbirds are really hard to take pictures of - but been lucky in that I've gotten a few picts.

Jazzygirl

Good evening friends- well, the southwest is finally getting some rain and I am going to Home Depot tonight to pick up some small mums to plant in the garden as things begin to cool and to help the front garden that got trashed in the heat this summer have a bit of life for the next few months. Got a few other things in pots I will put in the ground too to spruce things up. I will have to start over next spring with some of the perrenials that got fried this year.

I was out in CA this past week visiting family and got a few photos of some nice flowers in bloom, and my sister's lemon treet that is chock full of fruit right now. We had fresh lemons off the tree several times during my visit. YUM!

Jazzygirl

One more update (ha ha, you don't hear from me forever, now multiple messages). I went to Home Depot last night and going to replant some things in the front garden now that it is cooling down, the rains are more abundant, etc. Got these two pretty pots to have on my table, a coneflower plus some daises and other things in a different planter. Touch of fall in the air.......

M0mmyof3

Very nice. If we don't get any rain in the morning, I a, going to go out in my garden and see if I have more beans ready to pic

rosaann

Please can someone explain the difference between grass shears and hedge shears? Obviously hedges are a lot tougher than grass. So, if I buy something that's advertised as hedge shears, will I be able to cut the grass edges with them? Sorry to be so dim.

coachvicky

Here are some of our sweet potatoes. They have been gently rinsed. Once dry I will wrap them in newspaper.

Our friends, Kathy and Scott, came over to help gather them.

We gave them a large grocery sack of sweet potatoes as well as herbs, cucumbers, peppers ... .

Last year when I had the hard chemo, Kathy gathered ALL the potatoes. She did all the cleaning and wrapping.

She was one who has "showed up" for us thru all of this.

I feel blessed.

Coach Vicky

Jazzygirl

Coachvicky- I love sweet potatoes. Those look yummy!