Last of the Lilies
August 31, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
It seems our patch of lilies last longer than everyone else’s. We are lucky gardeners that way, I guess. These are the last of them though, and they are still giving color to our garden even this late in the day.
Lonely Purple
August 30, 2007 | Filed Under garden | Leave a Comment
This lone purple plant is the only one of its kind in our garden. The others just didn’t do so well and died out. This is the only survivor and it looks like he’s staying put. At least for the meantime anyway.
Starters
August 29, 2007 | Filed Under food, garden | Leave a Comment
We usually start our garden from seed, starting to buy seed packets even before the last frost is pushed away by the warmth of spring. This year however, many of the seeds did not come up for some reason. So earlier this summer, when we just happened to be walking through the garden center at Wal-Mart, without intentions of buying anything, we spotted these Japanese Eggplant seedlings and, of all things, sweet potato plants!!
Well who knew they sold sweet potato plants! Usually I start my sweet potatoes from sweet potato roots saved from the fall harvest, or if I can find it, from stems that I occationally find at the oriental market. I usually make a salad out of the sweet potato greens and the tough stems that don’t go in the salad, I stick them in the ground and get more green tops and in the fall, some pretty good sweet potato roots.
Dewy Blooms
August 26, 2007 | Filed Under garden | Leave a Comment
One of the advantages of getting up early is you get to see your garden in a totally different light. Before the sun comes up and dries everything, all the blooms have a dewy covering that gives them a beautiful sheen. Nowadays, mornings are the best time to sit out in the garden so the husband and I have been taking our coffee with the early birds.
Footprints
August 26, 2007 | Filed Under garden | Leave a Comment
