My Garden

Johnny West

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Yes, we do.

I went to Tunisia in the early 90's and got cooking cards in English. They are recipes of traditional Tunisian dishes. I love the lamb with veg and pumpkin on a bed of cous cous. I imagine the zucchini would do well with that, as well. One can't beat the Harissa on the side.
 

Saliha

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Harvest time has started:

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Saliha

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Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis):

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Astilbe (false goat's beard, false spirea):

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Garden table:

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My place to sit and watch the garden:

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QSis

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More lovely photos, Saliha! You could frame the harvest photo!

I just took a picture of one of my sunflowers. The blossom isn't the biggest, but there are over a dozen buds on this thing! So cool!

The gift that keeps on giving!

Lee
 

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Saliha

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It looks huge. I too have one sunflower with many buds. I have counted 8.

Seems that birds will have a party time soon.
 

Saliha

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The nightfall creeps into the herb garden:

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Time to collect herbs and flowers for the evening tea.
 

QSis

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Saliha, my mini roses did not have many blossoms. Maybe you have advice?

I planted them in a large half whiskey barrel and they got all-morning sun. Bought them in the supermarket. Fed them with slow-acting plant food one time.

I'm disappointed in them.

Lee
 

Saliha

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Saliha, my mini roses did not have many blossoms. Maybe you have advice?

I planted them in a large half whiskey barrel and they got all-morning sun. Bought them in the supermarket. Fed them with slow-acting plant food one time.

I'm disappointed in them.

Lee

I too bought my mini-roses from the supermarket and put them to very sunny place - but during the summer other plants, like dahlias, grew well and covered them. So they have been in shadow, not at the direct sunlight. Of my mind it might not be the best place for them at all but they are still alive and flowering.

I fed them by crushed eggs shells (from my kitchen) and vegetable fertilizer. I might need to add some garden lime as roses like soil what is quite alkaline (ph 6 - 6,5).
 

Leni

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All roses have a big spring bloom and then another one in the fall. In between they don't flower as much. A lot depends upon the weather. Right now it is blistering hot in the Valley so I'm not getting very many blooms and some of the flowers look burned. As a rule supermarket roses are not the best. You're better off buying from a nursery and even better from a rose grower. I've bought some of my mini roses off the internet. These are named rose that have competed in shows.

Go to www.forloveofroses.com. They are more expensive than the grocery store but you'll have better luck. You might also want to take a look at the potting soil that you used. Use a fertilizer that is specific for roses. By the way I have something like 50 or 60 roses of all sizes. I recently joing the Rose Society. They have a website that provides information.
 
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QSis

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Thank you for the info on roses, Leni - VERY helpful!!

Lee
 

Saliha

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Asters are opening:

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Behind marigolds in old basket.


Honey bar for bees is closed but buffet for birds is opened:

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More sunflowers are still flowering:

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Saliha

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Flower of onion:

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Sunflowers:

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These sunflowers are over 2 meters tall but not flowering yet:

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Little smaller ones:

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Red and yellow ones, with few small buds:

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As the zucchini in the frame has no competitors (only thyme and basil but I don´t think it counts them), it grew huge:

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And makes a lot of fruits too.


Tomatoes have changed color to a little lighter green:

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Saliha

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Beans:

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And peas:

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Spearmint, planted at the last summer:

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Spearmint, planted at this summer:

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Basils in the pots:

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Holy basil:

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A bunch of tomatoes:

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QSis

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VERY impressive clusters of tomatoes, Saliha!

My plants only yielded a fraction of yours!

Lee
 

Saliha

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Before I haven´t succeed with tomatoes very well but at this year I made a lot of work for them. Now I just afraid that colder weathers come too early and soon I have a lot of green tomatoes everywhere.

Anyways, like many gardeners, I too am kind of megalomaniac with gardening - already head full of new plans for the next summer, bigger garden and more plants.

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Johnny West

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Down South they make fried green tomatoes when the cold sets in.

I've not had fried green tomatoes but am willing to try.
Is there a special way to do this?

I've only had fried red tomatoes the past few years after
having an Irish breakfast fry up in Whistler. My bud from
Scotland did them for us before we went a fishing a few
years ago and found them not bad. Please pass the baked
beans.
 

QSis

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Down South they make fried green tomatoes when the cold sets in.

LOVE them! Fried green tomato parmesan is one of my favorite things to make with them.

But I hope you get a nice mess of ripe red ones before you have to resort to green tomato recipes, Saliha!


Lee
 

Saliha

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I have still few basils left, most of them I have harvested as weather has changed too cold for them:

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Most of them I dry but today I also made some pesto.


Sunflowers:

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No flowers with these ones yet:

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Some random plants; I planted here those which didn´t fit to anywhere else places:

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Asters and mints beside of the sunflowers.


And now, evening is coming to my garden:

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Saliha

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The autumn has started but garden is flowering. It´s time of asters:

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Goldenballs are "golden":

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And marigolds:

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A lot of sunflowers:

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One of the latest poppies:

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Spearmints:

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Mostly still green:

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One more big one left...

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