Morning in the garden

I was looking at the garden this morning and realized the pumpkin plant was huge. It's taking over the yard. Cold temperatures will take care of that soon enough. Although it was in the 80's today again. Of course, the larger photo is much better than this tiny thumbnail.

Enjoying the garden

Lu was having a nice day in the garden while I cleaned up and planted some winter crops. I planted peas, carrots, broccoli and some herbs.


I'm always happy when I find a honey bee enjoying the stuff I planted. There is lots of pollen on this little guy.


One of the Rouge Vif d' Etampes.


The afternoon light was just right to take a still life photo of my harvest. Pomegranates, peepers and cucumbers. It made me feel like painting again.


The tomato still life wasn't as pretty, but I'm just happy to still have good tomatoes to eat.

Rain and different cosmos

It rained over night and sprinkled a little during the day. Eventually the day was sunny with really pretty clouds. Here are some from the backyard.


I noticed today that I seemed to have two different kinds of cosmos. They are the same color, but the petals are different. This one has very full petals.


The cosmo in the background has the smaller petals with a zig-zaggy edge

Harvests

Cosmo seeds


Blue Lake Pole beans are still growing well. I like that it has both yellow and white flowers on the same plant.


And I let some dry out, so I will have seeds for next year.


Here are the seeds that I harvested so far this year. I hope I'll have enough seeds to share this year with other members of Seed Savers. I would need at least 25-30 seeds for each order. Right now I have about 200 seeds.


Ancho San Luis peppers


Brandywine OTV and Croatia

Flower vs. Flour

A sunflower and a white cosmo in the background.


White cosmo

The other night when we decided to heat up our pizza. It went horribly wrong. I heated up the new oven and put one piece each of our pizza slices. (I got distracted from Nedda's constant IM-ing and lost track of time. :) Two pieces were unfortunately burnt beyond the point of edibility. The smoke alarm went off, Button ran outside, and I burnt my finger. Sid took the battery out of the smoke alarm and we got the fan out and opened all the windows. Button calmed down and we ate the other two slices, but I was still a little hungry. :(

Cosmo and new bee

A pretty picture of the cosmos growing in the garden.


I saw a couple of these bees fighting with flies today aroung the parsley flowers. They are a little smaller than honeybees, but at a quick glance you might think they are. I'm glad to see a variety of bees in my garden.