Coming fast. Quite an assortment of heritage varieties. I will have to look at my notes to see what I started. There are some big ones out there!
Everyone hopes things settle down after Labour Day.
Not sure what to do with them all so put them up as an art installation. Waiting for SFMOMA to call and have it reproduced.
The garden is dry and neglected. Beans that should have been picked, broccoli in flower, zucchini the size of prosthetic rhino legs, cabbage splitting, tomatoes fallen over and growing on the ground, beets the size of turnips and onions saying, ‘get us out of this parched earth’.
The one and only Calendula that survived the grasshoppers.
It got away from us this year.
Electric lettuce. Just like ordinary lettuce, you can’t even give it away.
My garden gets away from me most years – but only with weeds and not veggies. This year was worse as they stopped taking our garden waste away so we all had to stop gardening since the spring.
I have a compost bin and compost as much as I can but we’re talking a whole garden full of bushes which have been growing madly all summer and not being touched as I knew the bins weren’t being emptied. I’ve got around 10 large piles of offcuts now and they’re not going to fit into 2 bins when they finally decide to start emptying them again. They only come once a fortnight anyway and we haven’t many collections now until they stop for the year 😦
I have to confess, I’ve thrown my leftover piles of tree and hedge prunings onto the verge. After all, it’s the council’s fault the bins aren’t being emptied (and we’ve paid for them being emptied) so they can’t really say much. When I looked, there were a lot of other piles of garden offcuts all the way up the road so I’m not the only one who’s done that!
My small garden usually grows tomatoes and rhubarb and basil. The rhubarb was fine this year during our drought. The basil was quite small and dried up quickly even though a I watered regularly. The tomato plants are about half sized. But, they are putting out some tasty small fruits. The cherry tomato plant acts like it has given up.
Believe it or not the grasshoppers ate the rhubarb this year. Leaves and all, and the leaves are supposed to be toxic. They left the tomatoes and we have some whoppers ready to be picked. Good to hear about your garden.
Do you plant Calendulas or do they just come up from the year before from shedding their seeds? I am going to throw their seeds everywhere in the garden when the flowers die. Thats what I do with poppies, dill, sunflower, chard and petunias. They come up on their own and I move them around.
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mountaincoward
My garden gets away from me most years – but only with weeds and not veggies. This year was worse as they stopped taking our garden waste away so we all had to stop gardening since the spring.
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underswansea
Would it be possible to compost your waste.
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mountaincoward
I have a compost bin and compost as much as I can but we’re talking a whole garden full of bushes which have been growing madly all summer and not being touched as I knew the bins weren’t being emptied. I’ve got around 10 large piles of offcuts now and they’re not going to fit into 2 bins when they finally decide to start emptying them again. They only come once a fortnight anyway and we haven’t many collections now until they stop for the year 😦
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underswansea
Cover it with a tarp and let it dry. On a rainy night have a helluva bonfire. Maybe in November on Guy Fawkes night. Nobody would blame you.
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mountaincoward
I have to confess, I’ve thrown my leftover piles of tree and hedge prunings onto the verge. After all, it’s the council’s fault the bins aren’t being emptied (and we’ve paid for them being emptied) so they can’t really say much. When I looked, there were a lot of other piles of garden offcuts all the way up the road so I’m not the only one who’s done that!
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Jim R
My small garden usually grows tomatoes and rhubarb and basil. The rhubarb was fine this year during our drought. The basil was quite small and dried up quickly even though a I watered regularly. The tomato plants are about half sized. But, they are putting out some tasty small fruits. The cherry tomato plant acts like it has given up.
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underswansea
Believe it or not the grasshoppers ate the rhubarb this year. Leaves and all, and the leaves are supposed to be toxic. They left the tomatoes and we have some whoppers ready to be picked. Good to hear about your garden.
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Julie@frogpondfarm
Great post! Nothing gets my calendula .. mind you we don’t have a grasshopper problem! Wonderful photos Bob, thanks for the garden update!
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underswansea
Do you plant Calendulas or do they just come up from the year before from shedding their seeds? I am going to throw their seeds everywhere in the garden when the flowers die. Thats what I do with poppies, dill, sunflower, chard and petunias. They come up on their own and I move them around.
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Julie@frogpondfarm
Do you now? Good idea Bob .. Yes they are super good at self seeding . They are everywhere in my garden. A wonderful flower!
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