What's popping up in my garden

13 years ago

Other than way too many dang caterpillars and lubber nymphs ...

Our Green Rose baby from Seminole Springs Antique Rose and Herb Farm is putting out her first bloom - ahhh, how sweet!

The tomato that went out early to the garden heater aka electrical box has tomatoes ready for our lunch tomorrow!

We are still getting oodles of hearty greens from the garden; but cucumbers and squash are alluding me.

Hubs and I finally found a fountain for our small pond to be that we both liked and fit our champagne taste/beer budget. Any recommendations for dappled shade small pond plants?

Garlic Chives are thinking about growing; but what the heck is this plant growing in the pot with them?

Oh, and my compost bin has apparently struck the big time; Black Soldier Fly have found it. Larvae are lean mean eating machines.

All the inground front garden veggies got a healthy top dressing of lovely compost. Same planned for the back tomato bed tomorrow. Hopefully my plants will reward my efforts with some yummies. Else I'll send them to Silvia's boot camp :)

Lou - all my fruit blew off my calamondin and the tomatoes/eggplants/cucumbers in the front garden. These all just happen to be in the path of the prevailing winds. The tomatoes have already bloomed and some are setting fruit again. The plants have much more energy than me; I still am working on picking up all the dead fall from around the yard. Now I have to feed worms and larvae. Got my work cut out for me. Guess I'm going to have to start mowing and bagging the neighbors yard. he-he

Good thing the greens are hanging in; we are eating them up nightly. Gotta get MIL back on her feet. I think I'm going to run out of preparation ideas for greens before I run out of the actual plants.

Rain forecast for tomorrow! sings happy rain dance song

~dianne

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tinael01
13 years ago
Very nice Dianne! I absolutely love the fountain!
amberroses
13 years ago
Nice garden shots. Yes, it is a lot of work, but look at the beautiful results you have.
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whgille
13 years ago
Hi Dianne, your veggies are looking good! Love the fountain!

We have to think of all the ideas to freeze the greens, soon we won't have any with the heat. Soups are good to freeze in individual containers to eat them later.

Today I am going to make grapefruit/orange marmalade with candied ginger thanks to Luther.

I don't know if you saw where the fruit trees are, in the back there is another raised bed. I did succession planting of pole beans and more squash, this way after the squash bed and the beans planted in another places stop producing, I will have more that come later.

After the pole beans are gone, I will be putting the butterbeans, looking forward to a busy season.

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organic_elizabeth_b
13 years ago
Diane, everything looks fabulous and I LOVE the fountain! Very envious of your tomatoes already ready to eat. Enjoy!

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
13 years ago
Nice garden!
& I believe that volunteer is called sea myrtle ( Baccharis halimfolia) - it's popping up around my yard as well. It is native, I believe. I can grow into a fairly large shrub w/ masses of flossy little flowers loved by bees.
gardengimp
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13 years ago
Thanks Carol, sea myrtle sounds cool; think I'll keep it around.

I found some packages of Ball freezer boxes awhile back in a thrift store; so I've been blanching and freezing green mixtures for a bit now. Need to do some more this week. I put greens in just about everything. Later this week I'm going to make a crockpot lasagna where I use layered green in lieu of pasta for the lower layers. I will let you all know how it turns out.

I'm am so pleased to be having tomatoes getting ripe. Starting tomato seed in November turned out to be one of my better bright ideas. It was just a few pots so carrying them in and out wasn't too much. Having early tomatoes now is so worth it.

The fountain is so nice, can't wait to get all finished around it. Hopefully today I will bring home a few small pond fish.

I moved some of the bright lites chard over near the fountain. It was going anyway from being in full sun; so it will be interesting to see if it stays perennial in the dappled sun. And for now, it brings some color to the area. I've also got some Florida Variegated Collards that I'm going to plant over here and see how they do. They are also suppose to be perennial. Not that I think they would taste all that good in August.

Thanks for the compliments everybody .... blush

~dianne
happy_fl_gardener; 9a, near DeLand
13 years ago
Dianne - Wow, ripe tomatoes already. I'm envious, but my time will come. It'll be interesting to hear all of the different ways you are cooking your greens. I've got to come up with some new ideas.

Silvia - What varieties of squash are you planting for your succession planting? I've got extra space from where my carrots were. Can't decide what else to plant. Perhaps I should get some cow pea seeds.

Christine
whgille
13 years ago
Christine, I planted by the bed at the fence, the red kuri winter squash and 2 other summer squash. Any early maturing varieties will do well. Cowpeas are a good choice too and they love the heat for sure.

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