Gardening, anyone?

I just bought s new house and the people left asmall greenhouse filled with tomatoes. And an outside garden with mature planting and a veggie garden with cukes, squash, peppers, and more tomatoes! Feeling rich! Have been eating the cherries like candy and doing plates of tomato, mix & basil with good quality olive oil and balsamic about every day. Yum.

Footprints- you are a good soul to share your fresh tomatoes with the homeless community. They have a tough time providing fresh fruits and veggies to those populations. Your tomatoes look divine!

Queenmom- haha! Depending on how deep those bathtubs are, I might trade. I didn't have a tub at all until two weeks ago, and little is more comforting to me than a soak. Especially when I sulk. Har. I was thinking I wouldn't appreciate the greenhouse. It's not large, but it's just outside the guest bedroom window. I was thinking it was kind of cheesy. Did I post a pic? It's one of those plastic affairs. But the tomatoes have been fab.

I now have a tub. But it is the old fashioned kind in a surround and doesn't cover my body. It's. 100% improvement, but feeling as I do about baths, I am upgrading to a soaking tub, but a modest one. With a tile surround and some bling glass accent tile. Work due to start in 2-3 weeks.

Very excited. Have already stocked up on fizzy bombs and shit, haha. I found a company called Soap Hope which makes micro loans to very poor women. The products are good, they send free samples, and I feel even better when I take a bath. I was so much more selfish, if that's even possible, before bc. I hate it when people say bc was a blessing, or made them a better person. But shhhhhhhh. I think it has.

My seedum are coming into color now. I have a grape purple one (neon) and mauve colored one (autumn harvest) that are starting to do their thing. I should have pics for you in a week or so. The seedums are the only thing that seems to bloom late summer to fall. That and my pampas grass which is huge and beautiful this year and just putting up it's wheat-like blooms.

Those are gorgeous, Jazzy. Mine just have a flush of blooms starting.

Jazz. . .lovely sedum. . .mine bloom dark purple but then flop over rather than stand up. We have found that we can cut them down and they will grow back again the sane season.

Teka. . .sorry about the tree. Our WSA cut down an 18yo Sugar Maple last year. Said it was in the way of their sewer easement. They did at least remove the stump. Maybe you can decorate yours with potted plant.

Scottie

Lovely! We'll see what, if anything my wisteria does--at the moment a race between the wisteria and the morning glories.

Jackbird- that came off of Facebook but if I ever saw one, I would buy it and put it in my front garden. LOL!

Thanks Jackbirdie!

Faith is sending you her love to make it better.

Pulled up my beans, grew a big stalk of them

and very little beans cause of the heat.

I had to put plastic bag in a slot were they were going into

my shed to make a nest, I was in time, hope someone can

fix that by next year. I used to clean the gutter every year

for my parents. ( I have 2 brothers.)

I was going through some photos of my gardens from a few years ago and noticed what a difference there has been in my back yard gardens since 2012. We were in a drought here from about 2007 to very recently, and started getting better monsoon summer rains as of last summer. My gardens struggled getting going for a long time after I built the house, but when I looked at some photos from 2012 to now, I can really see the huge difference. Several friends who have been here to the house this summer have commented how much the gardens have filled in, but you know when you live in a place and see it daily, you don't notice the change as much that comes through time.

Here is a photo from August of 2012 (top) and another of the same area in my backyard border garden taken this morning(bottom). What a difference, eh?

speaking of yellow jackets, hubby tore one up 2 nights ago with the tractor bucket. No idea it was in the mound of dirt as he has been up there weed wacking with no sign of them. He got stung about 8 times. Now we have to figure out how to get rid of the 3 open chunks of nest. Gotta love this country living.

Scotti you have to get rid of the queen if u don't want them back.