Little Galeux D'Eysines

   We'll only have a few this year, and they will be smaller than usual, but we're grateful for the ones that we do get.  Here is the first little Galeux D'Eysine of the harvest.  It seems like the perfect picture to post on a full-moon day.

 

 

Sunny September and A Batch For Me

 Welcome, September!  This will be a quick update with pictures taken on the fly during the last few days.  

   I decided to make a second batch of Green Tomato Chow Chow, this time using apple cider vinegar in place of white wine vinegar and adding a bit more brown sugar, to boot!  Not the clearest picture, but voilà.  The batch that included white wine vinegar will be shared with family and friends, mostly on the other side of the country.  (Canada Post must love people like me at this time of year...)

 

 

   The garlic has finished curing and has been trimmed up and organized.  The kind pictured is Red Russian, a tried-and-true, hardy, and dependable variety.

 

The sunflowers are in their glory, loaded with pollen and buzzing with bees. 

 

 

Dahlias 

 

 

More sunflowers...love the little blooms on this one. 

 

 

 

 The first carrot of the season (Red Chantenay).  They are juicy and flavourful.

 

 

 

 Galeux D'Eysines winter squash

 

 

 

Flagg dry pole beans 

 

 

Gold Harvest cooking peas, dried down and ready to store.

 

 

Herbs (L-R: Flat-leaf parsley, pineapple mint, oregano, pineapple sage)

 

Oregano, up close

  

Dwarf Speckled Heart tomato plants

Dwarf Speckled Heart

 

 

Cosmos ('Sensation Mix')

Taxi tomatoes

 

Fisher's Earliest Paste.  I am looking forward to saving seeds from this variety!

 

 

Indigo Pear Drops - still dark purple, they haven't begun developing the gold blush they have on the bottom once ripe.

 

Lower Salmon River winter squash

 

   Russian Mammoth sunflowers.  These are supposed to be large, single heads atop single stems, but early in the season, deer chomped off the developing head.  It stalled for a while, then recovered and shot up four new heads. 

 

Swiss Giant pansies

 

 

The south garden

 

Another Russian Mammoth sunflower, this one in the east garden.

 

Dahlias