Sigh...gardening season is over for this year. It's a mixed sigh of happiness that I'm done, and sadness--no more fresh tomatoes, except for the few I've got in my kitchen, ripening. My main garden has been cleared out, had compost and manure added to it, and has been raked and tilled. I planted the garlic for next year last Saturday!
Here's K, Sunday afternoon, about 2pm on October 17. It's so nice out we're eating outside. The night before, we also dined outdoors in the dark at 7pm. It's about 70 degrees.
One little green strawberry, hoping it will be warm enough to turn red, and wishing little R could pick it!
There are still a few raspberries in the bramble!
We spent a fair amount of Saturday, unloading and wheelbarrowing 2 truckloads of horse manure onto the gardens. Actually, that's pretty unfair of me to say "we". It was K and Grandpa N that did all the dirty work. I just raked, once it was had been dumped into the gardens. After it was dumped and raked, K tilled it in. This is the side garden, where the tomatoes were, and where they'll probably be for one more year. The strawberries and the raspberries are also here.
Here is a gorgeous view of the pin oak, just turning yellow, in front of the burning bush, just turning red!
I've cut back the peony and the daylily, and dumped a load of you know what onto the flower gardens as well.
Here's a close up Jake the Tree, our white pine. The needles in the middle turn yellow and drop off, just leaving the green ones on the end for the winter. It's quite striking in all kinds of weather.
The roses and zinna are toast, but the mums are in full bloom!
Here's another view of the pin oak against the burning bush.
There trees are not in my garden, but I can see them from my porch. I like the green, red and orange all together in a line.
Sigh...gardening season is over for this year. It's a mixed sigh of happiness that I'm done, and sadness--no more fresh tomatoes, except for the few I've got in my kitchen, ripening. My main garden has been cleared out, had compost and manure added to it, and has been raked and tilled. I planted the garlic for next year last Saturday!
Here's K, Sunday afternoon, about 2pm on October 17. It's so nice out we're eating outside. The night before, we also dined outdoors in the dark at 7pm. It's about 70 degrees.
One little green strawberry, hoping it will be warm enough to turn red, and wishing little R could pick it!
There are still a few raspberries in the bramble!
We spent a fair amount of Saturday, unloading and wheelbarrowing 2 truckloads of horse manure onto the gardens. Actually, that's pretty unfair of me to say "we". It was K and Grandpa N that did all the dirty work. I just raked, once it was had been dumped into the gardens. After it was dumped and raked, K tilled it in. This is the side garden, where the tomatoes were, and where they'll probably be for one more year. The strawberries and the raspberries are also here.
Here is a gorgeous view of the pin oak, just turning yellow, in front of the burning bush, just turning red!
I've cut back the peony and the daylily, and dumped a load of you know what onto the flower gardens as well.
Here's a close up Jake the Tree, our white pine. The needles in the middle turn yellow and drop off, just leaving the green ones on the end for the winter. It's quite striking in all kinds of weather.
The roses and zinna are toast, but the mums are in full bloom!
Here's another view of the pin oak against the burning bush.
There trees are not in my garden, but I can see them from my porch. I like the green, red and orange all together in a line.
