A couple of the sunflowers have grown about another foot in just a matter of days - nature continues to amaze me. The flower heads, although they haven't peaked out yet, are about the size of a fist.
The next two photos show my bumper crop of Thai basil. Tonight I will be making my specialty - spicy Thai basil chicken - for my husband and ex-roommate. They can both handle my level of heat, almost!
My pepper garden is getting a bit overgrown with some of the lilies and The Beast and weeds and Morning Glories. I've had to tie up a couple of the pepper plants because they grew so tall and thin that they can't hold up the weight of their fruit. The cayenne peppers are HUGE! When I harvest them I'll make sure to post pictures...
The beets should have been completely harvested weeks ago. At this point they are probably too woody to eat, so we'll most likely juice them - which is not so awful...
Here are the tomatoes...we lost a couple plants to disease...
This is just two of our basil plants...we're gonna be making a lot of pesto this fall!
I love succulents! Love them. I found this cute hen & chick plant at the Mpls Farmers Market at the beginning of the season and its been sprouting up chicks all over the place. I didn't know how well they transplanted so I experimented a few weeks ago - I plucked a few of the chicks out and just stuck them in another plant I had sitting outside. It wasn't long before they took and started getting bigger. So yesterday afternoon I plucked out a bunch and put them in a new planter.
I like ending with a pretty flower picture. This plant has been flowering all year - the name eludes me at the moment, but I will be sure to pick one of these up again next year.
The next two photos show my bumper crop of Thai basil. Tonight I will be making my specialty - spicy Thai basil chicken - for my husband and ex-roommate. They can both handle my level of heat, almost!
My pepper garden is getting a bit overgrown with some of the lilies and The Beast and weeds and Morning Glories. I've had to tie up a couple of the pepper plants because they grew so tall and thin that they can't hold up the weight of their fruit. The cayenne peppers are HUGE! When I harvest them I'll make sure to post pictures...
The beets should have been completely harvested weeks ago. At this point they are probably too woody to eat, so we'll most likely juice them - which is not so awful...
Here are the tomatoes...we lost a couple plants to disease...
This is just two of our basil plants...we're gonna be making a lot of pesto this fall!
I love succulents! Love them. I found this cute hen & chick plant at the Mpls Farmers Market at the beginning of the season and its been sprouting up chicks all over the place. I didn't know how well they transplanted so I experimented a few weeks ago - I plucked a few of the chicks out and just stuck them in another plant I had sitting outside. It wasn't long before they took and started getting bigger. So yesterday afternoon I plucked out a bunch and put them in a new planter.
I like ending with a pretty flower picture. This plant has been flowering all year - the name eludes me at the moment, but I will be sure to pick one of these up again next year.
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