I have been working on some garden projects here these past few days. Well, maybe longer than a few days. I lose track of when I start things! Anyway, my butt is really dragging today but I have lots of things finished. I will take pictures and post about the changes tomorrow. I really am pleased with it all. I guess it would not be MY garden if I did not move stuff around. I really am known for always having a moving project each summer and I guess this year is no different.

I spent most of the day in the veggie patch...the peas are on their supports! (They're still alive! )

I'm half-asleep myself, right now. Going to call it a day...

My fall peas are doing great. I am hoping for a better crop than I even had in the spring. Well, I did plant more now than I had planted in the spring.

I took out some of the cucumber vines that had fallen to the ground but left the rest.

I don't know the name of this lily but it was one of the stars this summer!


I don't know this one either but it too took the heat and drought without a whimper.

very nice bloom.

Love those zinnias with the purple flowers.

Wonderful summer display, Brian!

Such beautiful pictures.

Karen

Oh, very pretty!

cucumbers


And some nice long ones. The biggest is 20 inches long!

Here is the Tall bearded Iris garden I made from all the relocated iris that I moved. Now where did they come from and why did I move them?


They moved out of this square raised bed I call Tower Square and used to be an iris garden. I decided to make this a veggie bed next spring so needed to move everything out.

I do know the iris are really much too crowded in the new area but don't care. They needed to move and I only had so much room so they are crammed in. Truely I love TB when they bloom but think that the plants themselves are ugly. This is the perfect place for them along the driveway where I can pay much attention to them in bloom and ignore them the rest of the time.

And this is the new view of a section of my front yard were I took out a sapling tree with some stuff planted around it. Moved back the edge of the gardenbed area and extended my "old" tomato garden bed. Made a path around it that I just planted with grass seed.

My cucumbers are still poducing well. These are chinese cucumbers I picked today.


Peas growing really well!

Was watering the grass seed that I put in the new pathway around the tomato garden extension and looking at the way the yard there has charged. I really like it better as it looks more open without that sapling tree. Besides it was a Mulberry and I was always hacking it back as it just did not want to behave and stay smaller.

That extension really is going to up the number of tomato plants in that bed next year. Now I have 12 plants, two rows of six. Next year I plan on planting 20 plants there in two rows of ten. Plus I have the Tower Square garden in which I plan to put 10 tomato plants. And that is a compleatly new veggie area now that I have the iris plants moved out of there. And I have other areas with tomato plants. Lots of tomato plants.

The tomatoes seem to have slowed down putting out the ripe fruits just lately but I really can't complain. Green fruits still setting and the production this year was excellent.

did you find those which were especially good or especially bad?

Our Cornealian cherry, a member of the dogwood family is dropping fruits like mad. Will have to rake some off of the path. John did cut some branches which made it difficult to walk, even for my height which is now 5' 1".

Is that fruit drop normal, Lucy, or is it because of undue stress?

I thought our mountain ash would be shy in the fruit department this year after having no water all summer long, but it's surprisingly full. Good news for the birds!

Normal drop although perhaps a bit early.

The two colors of salvia really look nice blooming together.



I have peas growing in a pot there by the salvia.


paste tomatoes


and cucumbers picked

Blooms today
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great collection