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I picked three small cucumbers today and that is it. The last of them and they are done for sure. I will be pulling them out shortly. Can't complain. Cucumbers did really well this year and have never lasted this late before.

Picked lots and lots and lots of tomatoes today. Can't believe they are still coming so well this late in the year. Been such a great year for tomatoes for me but they are finially starting to come to a close.

We're finally getting enough ripe tomatoes here!

The second batch of cucumbers just started producing as well...just in time, too, as the older vines are just about finished.

All of my *perennial* mums are opening, and the ornamental kale and cabbage are coloring up.

Late summer sunflowers, asters and goldenrods are beginning to show as well.

Must get some new photos soon.


OH! ...and I have peas!!!!! Not at bunch yet, but a few.

I never plant a second batch of cucumbers so when my spring planted cuke vines are done then that's it for me on the cucumbers. They have been ratty for weeks now but were still producung until it is finially the end for me now.

Hurray for having plenty of tomatoes. And peas. Hurray for the peas. I have been picking and eating peas myself lately. Love fresh peas straight out of the garden. Yumm, yum.

We have pole beand that the deer are helping themselves to. Its just a loosing battle.At least they cant reach all the beans. Just Phlox finishing upand the mums in the front porch containers are not matching but I like them anyway.

Can anyone give me tips on dividing my beautiful aster after it blooms...I just set it out this spring but I have to move it and am hoping I can get a couple of "starts" out of it...I really need to get it into its new home now as I am turning a bed back into lawn ...

I don't think I've ever tried to split an aster before, Veronica. I consider myself lucky if mine last two or three seasons.

Sorry, I'm not much help.

OK I will move them and go for season number two!!!!

Some of my bulbs came so I got them planted already, 872 tulips so far in ground. I ordered so many bulbs to plant thus fall that spring should be really lovely. Daffoldils, dutch iris, crocus and more tulips will be comeing. So there will be much more planting to do yet.

With all the bulbs will you have room for the tomatoes next yr.?

Yes, of course I will.

Bulbs go in the flower beds, which are mostly the daylily beds. So they don't take up any extra room. My tomato garden areas are already expanded for next year and I have lots of room so I will be having more tomato plants next year than last.

I have a Tall Bearded Iris Bed in the middle of my backyard flower bed. I admit that backyard space is mostly daylilies though. So this late spring I had moved some iris from the very end of the bed near the pathway and put up a vertical trellis and planted cucumbers. Now that the cucumbers are all done for the year and the vines are long pulled out I can see more of what I need to do in order to put in place my plans of more veggies. First off I redid the two metal fence posts I had already used because I had really put them in all leaning all over the place. That is what I get for planting first and trying to fix it later. But now I was also able to measure and put in another two four feet down. So I will have more trellis space for next year. In between I have plenty of space for accress to pick when they are full of fruits.

Now that those posts are in for trellis, I will be needing to move some more iris again. But now I know where the veggies will exactly go and I can see what needs to be moved. Makes things much easier when I can actually see it out in the garden instead of just plans in my head.

Besides those bulbs already planted I have those bulbs already ordered from this spring still coming.

But I had ment to also order from Scheepers, never got to doing it. But was thinking about it yesterday. So today I go to Van Engelen, the wholesale division of Scheepers and much cheaper in larger quantities. I ordered 1,600 MORE bulbs. I really must be daft.

600 crocus
100 iris RETICULATA
250 daffodils
650 tulips

I have trouble getting up to the $35 (must total) at Sheepers.

No such problem here.

1600 MORE bulbs, Rita???? How in the world do you find the space, let alone the time for all that???

Fall is now in full swing. Since there is not a new thread yet, here is a picture of what's blooming in my fall garden.


Dahlias are still going strong.

Lots of space because I put them in and around all my daylily beds. The bulbs bloom early and by the time the daylilies are even really, really leafed out the bulb show is finished. Then the daylily leaves help hide the bulb folliage. It is a lot of work to get the darn things planted and I have been very busy.

Plus I do love tulips and tulips just have to be replanted. At least the kinds I always had needed redoing. I have lots of types this year that should be comming up year after year but still, I can't stay away from my fancy tulips that I just had to have and replant again. They often go in the same spots, replanted where there were planted before.

Please join us in the Fall thread here

The thread "Show Us Your Cottage Garden in Fall & Winter 2012-2013" in Cottage Gardening forum