It's been a very hot and very dry summer. I've been out there watering every day, so I can have these cucumbers:
My Globe Thistle's came up this year, despite my efforts last year to dig them up. The bees and wasps can't get enough of them. Sometimes there's 3 or even 4 insects fighting over one flower head. I could only get a shot of two of them. There actually is a third, but he's on the back side:
Well, they say "Compost Happens", but I'm not so sure. Here's a pic of a very enterprising potato, with a very strong will to live, that is growing right out of the composter. Last year, even with my best efforts and meticulous care and attention, my potato crop was a resounding failure. Maybe this year it will be better, what with all the extra neglect:
Now it's time for the "Can you tell me what this is?" segement of my blog, where I show you pictures of something that grew in my garden, and you get to tell me what it is. At first I thought this was a tomatillo volunteer, because it has sprouts at the base of every leaf, but the leaves look very much like pepper plant leaves. I began thinking it was a pepper plant, but then this little shrub got the strangest "berry" like fruit on it. Anyone know what this is?? Here are the pix:
Can you spot all four cucumbers? The first thing I will prepare is a cucumber and vinegar salad, and I'll remember my dad while I eat it, because he loved that salad so much.
Everything, animal or vegetable, is so thirsty. My husband put out a dish of water for the birds, but it looks like the Morning Glory is very interested, too:
My Globe Thistle's came up this year, despite my efforts last year to dig them up. The bees and wasps can't get enough of them. Sometimes there's 3 or even 4 insects fighting over one flower head. I could only get a shot of two of them. There actually is a third, but he's on the back side:
Well, they say "Compost Happens", but I'm not so sure. Here's a pic of a very enterprising potato, with a very strong will to live, that is growing right out of the composter. Last year, even with my best efforts and meticulous care and attention, my potato crop was a resounding failure. Maybe this year it will be better, what with all the extra neglect:
Now it's time for the "Can you tell me what this is?" segement of my blog, where I show you pictures of something that grew in my garden, and you get to tell me what it is. At first I thought this was a tomatillo volunteer, because it has sprouts at the base of every leaf, but the leaves look very much like pepper plant leaves. I began thinking it was a pepper plant, but then this little shrub got the strangest "berry" like fruit on it. Anyone know what this is?? Here are the pix:
