Everything is covered in heavy condensation except the Woolly Thyme, which is covered in frost.
There hasn't been much progress or growth in the garden since my last batch of pictures, but it felt like I should do a little documenting in case the temp drops below zero in the next while and does some damage.
Curly Kale
Dahlietta - this one changed from a solid, pale yellow to a warmer yellow with orange streaks. It is a little hard to make out here, but it's a very pretty effect. (Click the picture to enlarge.)
Lower Salmon River squash bed, potato bed, cabbage and onion bed, carrot and onion bed.
"Early" Romanesco cauliflower, Milta Black dry beans, and Coastal Orange Pride tomatoes. I don't plan on ever growing this variety of Romanesco cauliflower again. It is very large, heavy, sprawling, and late to mature compared to the "Veronica" variety I've grown for the last few years.
Sunflowers, Summer Savoury, Cucumbers, and Early Annie tomatoes.
Dwarf Roza Vetrov tomatoes
The East garden
Crabapples ripening
South garden - snap beans (Slenderette and Calima), kale and collards, Red Chantenay carrots, zinnias, cosmos, and two Early Prolific squash that are going nowhere. It looks a little ratty. Not enough sunshine and so much chickweed. That seems to be the theme this summer.
South garden - carrots on the left and two very small Early Prolific squash plants. These should be large and putting out squash, at this point.
South garden - peas (Green Arrow and Lincoln)
Tiger Eye beans (dry bush w/short runners)
North Garden - Red Swan and Roma snap beans, cabbage, zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers, garlic.
North Garden - Tene's Beans, Ireland Creek Annie, and Vermont Cranberry dry bush beans, marigolds, sunflowers, and Gold Nugget squash.
I left the scapes on a few varieties of garlic so I can save bulbils. This one is Red Russian.
Even the tomatoes along the fence are loaded with flowers, which is unusual. We need SUN and HEAT so they will actually GROW. (That CD is attached to one of the poles. It keeps crows and magpies from messing with the newly set tomatoes).
South side of the house: tomatoes (Work Release Paste, Anna Russian, Hungarian Heart, and Scotia), Beka Brown dry bush beans, Summer Savoury, marigolds, English Thyme (in the terra cotta pot),and a potted cucumber and volunteer garlic (bottom, right-hand corner).
Hungarian Heart - this is a productive variety!
South side of the house - dahliettas, tomatoes (Striped German, Early Annie, Black Sea Man), gazanias and nasturtiums in the window boxes.
This is a Gold Nugget squash plant on the South side of the house. The first flower has opened. Not able to hand-pollinate it, though (no male flowers).
One of the Gold Nugget squash plants in the North Garden. Six female flowers have opened but couldn't be pollinated, so those squash are lost.
The two Gold Nugget squash plants in the North garden. They are much smaller than they should be at this point in August.
Purple Vienna Kohlrabi, Dukat Dill
Detroit Red Beets, Lacinato kale, and Dukat dill. The beets have beautiful greens but the very small beets.
Dukat dill
The apple tree
This is the only one of 5 dinnerplate dahlias to bloom. Another looks ready to bloom (and like it will be lilac coloured). The others are still forming buds.
A dinnerplate dahlia plant behind the flower. It is nice and large, but it's only just now beginning to form buds.
All but one of the sunflowers are still forming headings and look like this. We had lots of sunflowers blooming at this time last year!
A close look at the garlic yesterday morning revealed mould growing along the stems and lower leaves. I removed the in-ground pots containing the varieties that were started from small rounds last Fall (e.g., Brown Tempest, Siberian, etc). I brought them into the plant room to let the soil dry and am hoping the rounds and small bulbs can be salvaged. I also dug up one of the Kiev bulbs to see what kind of shape it was in. There are small speckles of mould along the stem and on parts of the skin covering the bulb. And, of course, the soil is very wet. We have hung the Kiev garlic bulb in the laundry room to dry it and will see what condition it's in after that.
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