Gardening, anyone?
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Some photos from the garden this morning. The evening primrose (yellow) and mexican (pink) have really filled out in the area around my garden buddha and the new purple gaura is a big fan of the bumblebees.
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It's been a long time since I've seen a bumble bee.
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Anada- my yard has been filled with them this summer. Maybe a good sign the bees are coming back?
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I certainly hope so. The farmers had better figure out how to reduce the dependence on insecticide and consumers had better realize that perfectly shaped produce has a price.
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My yard has been filled with bees this summer. I have a russian sage and a chaste tree that are covered with purple flowers and hum with bees all summer. The bumble bees seem to really like the gaura plants.
For some reason, the bees seem to like purple flowers. Just like the hummingbirds go for red flowers.
Interesting!
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Just found this board. Dh and I love to garden. We spend way too much adding plants to our gardens each year. It's always a work n in progress.
Scottie
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We have a few plants in our garden that are constantly covered with what must be hundreds of bumble bees. They seem to love catmint and oregano the best. This is a pic of our oregano plant, but unfortunately you can't see the bees very well. It was literally swarming with them.
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Scottie- what a fabulous collage! Love it!
Monis- I enlarged the picture and could see some! It is a gorgeous healthy plant! I imagine the sound is as spectacular as the sight. It reminded me of this:
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Scottie, what a beautiful collage. To see blue hydrangeas almost makes me cry. I used to live in SC and here in the midwest, we can't much grow those types of hydrangeas and they turn pink. I so miss those.
I have nothing exciting to report garden wise except my sunflowers finally have buds and I may have one flower in a few days. Ha ha ha, its the 20th of August and I'm getting my first sunflower.
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TwoHobbies. Thanks and my dh is from SC.
We have lots of hydrangeas and depending on their location in my gardens they bloom in white, pink, blue and purple. Different soil over the GA red clay. We do fertilize them but don't add anything extra to change alkalinity/acidity of soil which supposedly effects the color.
Scottie
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Scottie we had some here that I tried to turn blue with the acid but all I got was a bit of blue, a bit of purplish and mostly pink. It was a lot of work so I gave up. In fact those hydrangeas didn't do well at all so I moved them to another location and they didn't do well there either, so I gave up on that variety completely.
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Hi Jazzy, I really like your garden buddha. Very serene and peaceful. Love the pic of the bumblebee - I have had lots of the smaller honeybees all summer, but finally saw a big old bumblebee in my yard this week.
Jackbirdie - hi, hope you are well. Nice concert clip - thanks for posting!
Scottie and Monis, great pictures. Hydrangeas really are lovely. I enjoy seeing them when I travel back East. My oregano plant is blooming too, and right now is the bees' favorite thing in the garden.
I am trying to decide if I have the energy to get out and do a fall vegetable planting this weekend. I have seeds for radishes, carrots, beets, snowpeas, and salad greens - which were all marvelous in early spring - and I want to do a 2nd planting. It's almost too late now but what the heck, might as well try.
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frost warning for us. This is way too early
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Ok, the forecast here is for 100 tomorrow. I had to reread your text a couple of times to understand it. Frost??? Linda
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yes Quilt. This morning it is 36 F, feels like 33F. I started teardown of the garden yesterday. Picked my big crop of tomatoes. A whopping 4 from 2 plants. Threw out the brussel sprouts. They were not going to produce. Tore out the beans & peas. Such a disappointment.
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Frost warnings, wow! Farmers Almanac predicts first frost for my area will be Oct. 6. Going to plant some hardy greens and root vegetables, and see what happens. I like to experiment and see what works and what doesn't.
Speaking of experimenting, this year I tried a different kind of squash - patty pan. For the last couple years, I've planted the regular zucchini and yellow crookneck, and they were destroyed by squash bugs just as they were starting to produce. I don't know why I think I'm going to have any better luck with the patty pan squash, but I did plant in a different area of my garden (which I've read you're supposed to do when pests move in the year before), and I amended the soil with eggs shells that I pulverized in the blender (another pest deterrent). The squash recovered beautifully from hail damage, so hopefully I can stay ahead of the squash bugs now:
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Kiki, We picked our first patty pan last night.
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Thankfully no frost last night, but it was close. only 2 or 35 Fahrenheit. To cool
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quiltlibrarian. . .can you send some frost down to HotLanta?
Scottie
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Wren - nice!! Congrats on the patty pan success.
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Oh my that is cold for August. I hope you'll get a warm spell now.
Kiki at my last house all I could grow was squash. Tomatoes poor. Corn aphid infested cucumbers didn't produce but I had tons and tons of beautiful yellow squash. Those are looking beautiful so far. I hope you outsmarted the squash bugs this year.
Speaking of outsmarting: I outsmarted the chipmunks by planting sunflowers in containers. Too bad I couldn't outsmart the lack of sun. Here is my first bloom August 23.
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Lovely sunflowers. it seems to be the only thing growing well
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That is a glorious sunflower, Two Hobbies! Between chipmunks, squash bugs, and crazy weather, I guess we gardeners love a challenge.
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Tens- that is one charming flower box!
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Teka. . .can't wait for fall. Lovely flowers.
Scottie
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A lot of plants are dead cause of the dryness and fires are not
helping. Thank God it might rain this weekend!
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Thanks, it will feel so good, we never went this long with 80s
and 90s, I hope there is rain cause we been told to cut back,
I still water my herbs and tomatoes. Yum!
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Grape and the big mama tomatoes
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I love them and share them. With a place that helps the homesless
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Me too
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