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| pineapple sage: love the red flower; the smell is ,no doubt, very pineappley but it does not taste like it. Good as a late flower for the bees. |
I have started leeks, carrots, endives, lettuce, spinach,bush beans and onions from seeds. Because it is still rather warm during the day, chervil has given me a hard time and refuses to germinate. Not ever taking "no" for an answer, I have started some indoors yesterday. Let's see if I get any luckier.
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| Bush beans. |
In between seasons with my tomatoes; the summer ones have slowed down to a trickle and my late season ones have just barely started to turn slightly pink. This year, I added some late cukes to see how they would do. I followed carol Stein's advice; we'll see how that works out.
Fruit: collecting the very last of my figs, now down to a couple a day.
I have some late season raspberries I planted last year. They have turned out into something of a surprise: first, they are much "wilder" than I expected; they have a major defensive system made up of mean thorns. They grow rather strongly meaning I will have to do some re-arrangement this winter and their taste is not as sweet as my spring ones. They are almost bland but I am happy to have some fresh fruit.
Flowers: while I was absent, visiting family overseas, one of my bananas bloomed but it turned into the story of the tree falling in the forest. Since nobody noticed, does that really count? It sure wasn't accompanied by my usual excitement at watching a new flower's birth.
The last few days have been very dry so that have to do some watering.
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| Sacrificing my parsley for future generations of swallowtails. Not easy since I love parsley but I also enjoy butterflies. Dilemma! |
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| Dahlia. |
