The one JBT is starting to ripen, I can see it starting to turn! I can't wait as garden maters beat all others hands down. You can't beat the flavor of an heirloom!

I want to let some of the sweet peas set seed so when they do I'll send you some. When would you sow them in Texas?

Tomatoes are coming along slowly here too. I've got a couple of varieties that are about to ripen. Looking forward to the tasting!

Oh boy! would I love to grow some of those sweet peas! I would grow them in the spring here. We're in Zone 7b, a small portion of Texas that actually has four seasons! You said they are standing up to the heat there, so maybe if I put them in afternoon shadier spot they would like that better than full Texas hot summer sun? what do you think?

I think so afternoon shade would be good for them, now that I think about it mine get some afternoon shade too! And they just keep blooming and I keep deadheading them, but eventualy I'll have to let them go to seed......

Do you get snow in the winter?

Well, we don't always get snow like this but we always have many days below freezing and all of our trees are deciduous so they loose their leaves in winter.

And in the fall, all the trees put on their autumn fashions.

That big sunflower is gorgeous! I like the yellow!

Thanks Stephanie! I'm sure to save some seeds

They're about 5.6 ft tall. You know something I think is funny about the sunflowers, at least the varieties that I've grown, they always face the east! Always. I would have thought they would turn to face the sun throughout the day... nope!

That's very interesting! They're about as tall as my dill got this year! LOL Thank you for the seeds. Do you want some of the dill seeds?

I am planning on doing some massive dill seed planting this fall!!! Enough for me and the butterflies! I really missed it this spring! I still have plenty of seeds, though from two years ago.... I think they are still good. The plants can be overwintered, if protected with some good mulch. I think that late snow we got in March did the little babies in this spring.

You probably wintersowed your dill seed? They were beauties! I will definitely have to wintersow some too!!

If I have a problem with germination next month, I will surely take you up on the seed offer

I did winter sow them in 2009!! Some died before I got them transplanted, so I just left the container on my back patio. Lo & behold, last fall I had dill babies sprouting after the first rain we got after the long, hot, dry summer!! I babied them through the winter (overwintered them in the unheated, enclosed sunroom), then planted them out early spring. I think they're a tough breed to survive such neglect! I'm sure I'll have 10,000 babies out in the garden this fall eventho I tried to cut off all the seed heads. If you need some, just give me a holler and I'll pop some off in the mail.

Thanks...I will! It is some tough dill and prolific!

Today this Velvet Queen sunflower opened... the first red one and very pretty I think, with that yellow ring in the middle.

Very pretty Sunflower!

I have a Celosia I need to get a picture of for here, it must be an heirloom. A lady at work gave it to me, she said they grow them all over in India and it is seriously the most massive Celosia I have ever seen! The stem is as thick as my finger and its just sarting to make a big rosy-pink plume! At first I thought the plant was an amaranthus it is so big!

Wow, I look forward to seeing pictures!

Yellow or red, the sunflower is gorgeous!

I got some picture the other day! Sorry for taking so long to post them.
Its starting to look like an Amaranthus of some kind, and hopefully it will set some seed before frost!

That's a very pretty plant!!!!

Aren't the Celiosas in the same family as the amaranthus? Maybe it's a large variety from India?

I think they are related and she said they grow them all over in India so whatever it is I like it! I hope it gets alot bigger still! There is lots of side shoots coming! You can see them in the first pic but they have grown alot since.

Steven said:Daturas re-seed here too, not alot just in a nice sort of way. Morning glories too, they come up so thick it could be a lawn. I used to weed them by the handfulls all summer........very pretty but pesty.

I dug this out of the graveyard because while I have Daturas all over, I can control them easily but I have not planted any Morning Glories for many years and I am still fighting the suckers in both of my gardens.

I used to love Morning Glories but now it seems the ones I planted , I do not consider planting in a plastic trellis thingy to be in the same category as those that infest my gardens, are so pathetic I quit but those in the gardens are huge and extremely annoying.
I used to let the mint go for my cat Ringo but now that he is gone I pull it and have little trouble with it.

This year I left a cluster, of Datura ,over six plants go in my South garden as I was going to transplant them when they were young but never got around to it.
They came up fine and looked neat in a cluster like that but last time I went home it looked like a bomb had gone off in the middle and they were all spread out at a thirty degree or so angle.
Weird.