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Welcome Back! We missed you!

Garden has EXPLODED as she does this time every year. We had 3" of rain this week, so it's soggy! One of my HUGE Sunflowers fell and is blocking the aisle, but Beau will help me right her, today.

'Soroya' Sunflower. AAS Winner, very little pollen so they make a nice cut flower. Throws out a lot of branches, so you get a ton of flowers off of one big plant.

'Atris' Pepper. A new variety for me, but it's going to go in the regular line-up. HUGE sweet peppers good for frying and for adding to Salsa and my 'V-12' Juice.

'Chef's Yellow' tomato. One I always grow. Nice slicer, great for BLTs!

'Chef's Pink' Tomato. New for me this season, but the 'Chef's' series produces uniform slicers in a range of colors.

'Mariana' Paste-type Tomato. I like the paste-types for Salsa - fewer seeds and more meat!

'Juliet' Tomato. These are the ones I oven-dry with EVOO and Italian spices. We eat them like candy.

'Coral Dream' Zinnia. Love the color! Bought these from Steve Cushman, my 'Poinsettia Broker' when I worked for Jung's. His greenhouse is in Belmont, WI. I live much much closer to him now, and he wants me to work for him, but I'm too busy being retired! :)

'Sweeter Yet' Cucumbers. 'Dinosaur' Kale. Red and yellow onions, Crookneck yellow and 'EZ-Pick' Green Zucchini. 'Ancho' peppers. Red Begonia behind is called, 'Million Kisses' and the Yellow is just your everyday Tuberous Begonia. My onions were terrible this season. Too wet and too much nitrogen in the soil.

A small portion of my Garlic crop. German Porcelain, Hardneck.

Filing Under: 'I Don't Remember Planting THAT!' My boy, Boyd.

Garden has EXPLODED as she does this time every year. We had 3" of rain this week, so it's soggy!

Very nice. When did you plant them? Did you grow them from seed?

We are in MA, while in the thread "Are Record Temperatures Evidence of Manmade Global Warming ?" Townhall.com, it says,

Our Midwestern and Great Plains forebears, who suffered greatly through the Depression years, also suffered through many summers when the daytime temperatures exceeded 100 degrees F and night-time temperatures remained in and above the mid-80s. In July 1936 the City of La Crosse, WI, experienced ten consecutive days when the maximum temperature reached or exceeded 100 degrees. On July 14 of that year, it was 108 in La Crosse, its all-time record. On that same date, the thermometer in Wisconsin Dells topped out at 114, the state’s all-time record high.