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Good morning, Red Devil and all my gardening FReepers! We are still getting some nice tomatoes but I am wondering how long it will last! There is a certain “Fall smell” in the air in the morning. I am beginning to wonder if Fall won’t be early this year?!

I have gotten a ton of compliments and two neighbors have stopped their cars to ask about the lilies in my front yard. I guess a lot of people have never seen “Fairy lilies” or as some call them... “Resurrection Lilies”. Either name is fine with me and the kids seems to love them. I guess they are sort of magical in their own way!

Resurrection lilies, are yours the pink ones or the pink-lavender-sky-blue-tipped ones? I planted the latter, the leaves come up every spring, but I never get the flowers. I am one zone too far north for them for one thing. If I mulched them more heavily and faithfully watered what's left, they might actually do their thing.

I first spotted 3 plants of them growing in a field that ultimately got bulldozed for a development, bye bye beautiful lilies. They don't transplant well and can only be grown by bulb, tremendously difficult to get seeds from them, have to cross with a similar plant with little success. I have no idea how on earth those three beautiful flowers got growing in that field. Diploid and sterile come to mine, I had to ask on a group about them.

They're not really lilies but a member of the amaryllis family. They sure look like lilies. Google for it, also called naked ladies and painted ladies.

I've had many gardening disappointments like that so have let nature have her way and grow what doesn't need to be watered. We need rain badly. I went out with a shovel last night to dig up some bad dandelions I've let go, ground is hard as a rock, trees are fighting with my plants for moisture.

I want to grow veggies and herbs next year, think I'll try to get some herbs going under my lights or they grow well in the sunroom IF I remember to water them.

I found a neat recipe that calls for rosemary but I don't know where to get seeds for it, found the rest I like. I think I could grow salad greens under my lights for winter, too, but not tomatoes.

I rigged up a bank of gro lights myself with pvc pipe, have two double sets of fluorescent lights on a timer.

Appreciate the ping and next week will try to follow all the posts. I always want to grow exotic things and am excited about some seeds for corn that has beautiful colored kernels that look like glass, am looking forward to that, am on a waiting list.