Good Morning and Welcome to our every Saturday all things gardening related diary. And sometimes wonderful photos of our folks’ travels, too. All are welcome whether you garden outdoors, indoors, enjoy your neighborhood gardens, or just enjoy the natural world.
This diary is a mix of things from my garden and around the neighborhood nearby and farther flung.
That intro photo is in a garden up the street. The milkweeds have dried and broken open with the wind spreading the seeds. Just like we share seeds here!
This iris was still blossoming up the street in October….
Sunflowers back in September from a neighbor who always plants lots of them….bees were reallying partying.
I did several visits with gardening friends to the Syracuse regional market on the north side of the city….
There were LOTS of squash!
And pumpkins!
Lots and lots of peppers of all kinds. One vendor was selling them by the case load. I bought a giant cauliflower. Those were just flying off the display table.
This is for all you fungus lovers! A young fellow from Rochester has a booming mushroom business. If you like all kinds of fungus, you had to visit his booth. He was selling them as fast as he could ring them up.
Back at my house, I grew these 2 mini sweet pepper plants from seed. The original plant I bought from Lowe’s. I brought them inside and got the last 2 peppers from them earlier this week.
I do best with the small tomato varieties. These are mostly from a “no name” orange cherry tomato plant I bought at my food cooperative. A very hardy plant that was putting out fruit into October. A few of these are Sun Sugar from seeds I saved. I gave some to our contractor friend who was redoing a section of our fence. He said they were eaten before he got home. The bowl is milk glass that belonged to my mom.
More yummy little treats! Green ones look like big cat’s eye marbles.
I believe this is a Creamsicle Grape tomato grown from CW’s seeds. CW, correct me if that doesn’t look like CG.
This was getting near the end of the beans. The dried brown pods and red/green beans are Rattlesnake Pole Beans. The thin solid green on the upper left are French haricot verte. Both varieties from High Mowing Seeds in Vermont.
I saved a whole lotta pole bean seeds! Donated a bunch to my local cooperative extension master gardeners seed sharing library. I missed a bunch of the pods hanging very low on the vines. For some reason, it’s easy to miss these. Maybe the two tone coloring hides them in the shade? The beans are so pretty when dried.
This was August or early September. Minime Cucumbers from High Mowing Seeds, more little tomatoes from the food cooperative’s plant, Italian flat parsley and a scallion from a pot on the kitchen patio, carrots from a grow bag. Still struggling with getting the carrots to grow well.
Cukes, tomatoes, beans again. And one of the maybe half a dozen zucchini I got from…..EIGHT plants. The plant in the grow bag in my mini greenhouse did the best. Maybe it was the variety. The only plant from seed that survived. But that sure was a pretty, shiny zuke. All the other plants I bought at the farmers market. I think the few days of chilly weather in June stunted those.
When harvesting all those goodies was done (the fun part), there was clean up. We had so many days of high winds that I didn’t get to the kitchen patio until the week before Thanksgiving. It was buried in leaves over and over from east and southeast winds.. Then I had the gutters cleared and moss scraped off the house roof above the patio. What a mess. I also closed down the cover of the mini greenhouse out front with the grow bags and some pots inside. That should be fine all winter.
I covered my biggest pots in bags as I got tired of moving them back next to the house. Those leaf bags behind he blue chair are now out streetside waiting for pick up. This is the clean up job that I really dislike. There are 3 maple trees and 1 drops really late.
I admit to still having some in ground vegetable garden clearing to do. It’s warm these two days before Thanksgiving so I’ll be getting that done. Weather prediction is for a pretty major snow storm starting Thanksgiving Day. I’ll do an update on Saturday. Most of the heavy snow is supposed to go north, but….?
Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you all have everything edible you enjoy for your Thanksgiving meal. I have turkey, etc. but I’m thinking Indian take out...🤣
