The first "Ruby Eclipse" sunflower to open.
Fairyland Dwarf CandyTuft
Marigolds - we have so few this year! The shot of colour is welcome in the garden.
The first "Meteor" zinnia to open.
It's tricky to see, but there is a bee enjoying the Creeping Thyme...
...and another one snoozing on a Shasta daisy.
Silver mound, poppies, Bachelor Buttons, Shasta Daisies, Echinacea (not blooming yet).
Pansies
Red Swan snap bean plants. The flowers are white and pink. Pretty!
Another one bites the dust. The Great Brassica Massacre of 2017. Damn root maggots.
The Ping Tung Eggplant is coming along. No flowers yet.
This is a Galeux d'Eysines squash. About 6 have been pollinated and are starting to grow. It would be wonderful to finish the season with a bunch of mature winter squash.
The neighbour's cat, who we call Loreal, likes to follow me around the yard while I check the garden. Headbutts, purring, rolling on the driveway, and grass nibbling. (Loreal, not me). Here, she is checking out the Galeux d'Eysines plants.
A Heritage Mix of 5 early dry beans from Salt Spring Seeds. They are doing well - I just didn't know beforehand that they would have runners!
Green Arrow peas
Of the 3 varieties of peppers I started this year, the jalapenos (as usual) are doing the best. I'm pleased to see this, but at the same time... What's a girl gotta do to grow a good crop of sweet peppers?!
Hi Dawn, Carolyn sent around the link to your latest blog, and I've just spent some lovely time walking through your flower and vegetable gardens! What a terrific variety of both you have! You and Roy and the cats seem to be doing so well. Sorry most of all for the root maggots. Too sad. Magpies and Ravens are another issue. Would it be too prohibitively expense to string up some kind of netting or chickenwire or something to keep them out? Particularly in your most seductive and inviting beds. Not being a gardener I know nothing of these matters. (Magpies and Ravens and Blackbirds are my 3 favorites of the larger birds.) Hope your growing harvest proves to be abundant! Sending fond wishes, Judith
ReplyDeleteHi Judith! Thank you for visiting my little blog. We have strung up small tin-plates and old CDs around the garden and so far, it seems to be keeping the birds at bay. They have been relatively well-behaved this summer (unlike last summer, when a family of magpies decided to hang out here for a few months, snapping off young cabbage heads and pulling the petals out of the marigolds). I love ravens. They sit on the power lines and chatter away while I pick raspberries. :)
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