You can see the pole beans

Nice! Like your GH!

Oh Arlene, that looks great in the greenhouse! All ready to be filled up with plantings! But really, what a difference that mulch makes. It just looks so good.

And congrats on all the fall veggies sprouting.

I haven't been doing much with the veggies as I have been planting bulbs. Need to get the bulbs done.

How nice to have a greenhouse. It looks good. I'm envious.

Thanks! GH is new last Feb. I'm still very excited about it!

I still have another month, or maybe a bit more to get my bulbs in down here.

My coleus cuttings were all rooted so I got them potted up today, ready for the Gh when it cools off a bit. Most of the pot ghetto is things I will over winter in there but I have to be careful how much because just my seedlings last spring filled the GH to over capacity. I'll have to cut back this year. Yeah, right!

Chelle, this picture is for you. Gonna put another cut log with half whiskey barrel and a second, tilted half whiskey barrel and and old fashioned hand pump for a water feature with border of logs and permaculture bed around!!! Hope I can do half as good of a job as yours!

We have plenty of weather left to get bulbs done here also. But I have to get these 4,500 done that I had ordered and had shipped in September as I have another 5,000 bulbs coming beginning of October. I kinda went over board ordering bulbs this year.

Rita, you're a hoot! I can't believe you have almost 10,000 bulbs to plant. That should be quite a show.

SongofJoy said:Rita, you're a hoot! I can't believe you have almost 10,000 bulbs to plant. That should be quite a show.

I planted 5,000 last fall and I thought that was a lot. 10,000 really is too much but I wanted them so now I have to plant them. I really have over 5,000 coming so I am really only a few bulbs shy of 10,000 to plant.

I can't wait to see the show next spring!

I love spring bulbs but I HATE planting them!

lol. Me too.

abhege said:I can't wait to see the show next spring!

I love spring bulbs but I HATE planting them!

I love tulips, my favorite flowers. But not really fond of planting them myself either. I just think of how wonderful it will all look in the spring.

abhege said:

...Gonna put another cut log with half whiskey barrel and a second, tilted half whiskey barrel and and old fashioned hand pump for a water feature with border of logs and permaculture bed around!!!...

My last one is just filled with stuff from the horse stall... and it's doing great! So, no fancy fillers seem to be required. You're going to love its ease of care!

I now have them scattered around all over the place...in all different shapes and sizes!

I can't wait to get this one done. Yours are just beautiful. And we got a bunch of logs free last fall so I have plenty of them, lots of branches, compost, manure and maybe some straw? I need some easy beds, this clay is just miserable.

If this one turns out, there will be more!

I bet it will turn out great.

We have that awful clay too, that's why I like these fun raised beds so very much!


Made a lovely dish for our fall company gathering last evening and some of the ingredients came from the gardens here.

Cavatappi pasta -al dente and cooled

One cherry-colored and one orange sweet pepper (some of those Upside Down that used to be Vanilla-colored home hybrids )
Fooled You peppers (deep dark green)
...sliced thinly in uniform lengths

Capers
Dark Kidney Beans
One slice of crisp bacon, crumbled

Radish flowers
Borage flowers

Italian-style dressing

...and garnished with Toothache Plant blooms! The salad was pretty and tasty and the party-goers had a blast sampling those after-dinner wonderments!

The toothache flowers, didn't they numb the mouth?

Yep!

It doesn't last all that long and it's really mild...just another plant-related curiosity. (They were all told what to expect before they indulged.)

Oh my, what fun!!! And they are such cute little balls of flower! I just yanked out a plant yesterday that was a volunteer amongst my callas.

Have you ever collected seed from your Toothache Plants? I'm not sure what to look for, but several people said they'd like to grow some themselves.

I have, just grabbed the entire flower head. I have no idea what the seed looks like, I just plant the whole thing! They volunteer easily also.