Posted on 06/27/2020 6:25:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Or in my case a watermelon with a tough rind.
I am not so much a cool cucumber as one really hot tomatah.
‘Weekly’
More coffee, STAT! :)
Mmmmmm. Pickled Watermelon Rind! ;)
“Post Humus,” Patti Tana
Scatter my ashes in my garden
so I can be near my loves.
Say a few honest words,
sing a gentle song,
join hands in a circle of flesh.
Please tell some stories
about me making you laugh.
I love to make you laugh.
When I’ve had time to settle
and green gathers into buds,
remember I love blossoms
bursting in spring.
As the season ripens
remember my persistent passion.
And if you come in my garden
on an August afternoon,
pluck a bright red globe,
let juice run down your chin
and the seeds stick to your cheek.
When I’m dead I want folks to smile
and say, “That Patti, she sure is
some tomato!”
And sometimes I prefer both of us pickled.
Lower Midwesterner with a container garden checking in checking in.
I had a nice crop of black swallowtail caterpillars decimating my dill. They have all moved on and I can harvest dill again. I’m hoping to see some nice butterflies soon.
My lavender plant that went gangbusters and got me a nice little crop of buds has great leaf growth but no new buds forming. I’m wondering if it’s not getting enough sun. It’s aesthetically pleasing where it is so I can’t bring myself to move it to the sunnier side of the porch.
It’s also now Swiss chard season which will turn into any leafy green but swims chard in a few weeks. I swear it grows better once I start cutting it and i end up eating it 3 or 4 times a week.
I hope everyone else is beginning to harvest.
never pickled I am a teetotaller
“Post Hummus”
Tomatoes sliced,
Dance in a ring,
Olives black,
Give it some zing.
From the East,
Humble Chick Pea.
in mystic union
with Sesame.
Garlic stings
My blinded eyes,
Lemon smiles
At the surprise.
Visions of Arabian Nights
Cloud my gastronomic flights.
Ah...Hummus is such a delight!
((((Just made that up)))
Cool, slightly dippy morning in the Ozarks. A nice break from mid-90s.
So...where's my jacket ?
Very nice !
What a beautiful garden! Congrats. As far as pictures and html I can’t help you but when I post a picture if it comes up to big in the preview I delete it and use a program like Paint in Windows Accessories to resize it down.
My garden in both NY and NH are doing well.
I was concerned because of the hot dry spell as we weren’t in NH to water. I figured that I’d come back to a desert wasteland. But everything survived!!!!
Even some seeds I had planted that I had given up on made it.
Question......
I planted some onion sets and a bunch of them are flowering. Does that mean I won’t be getting a good onion harvest from those plants? I absolutely plan on saving the seeds and starting them indoors next year and then transplanting the seedlings as opposed to doing the onion sets.
My potatoes are also flowering. Should those be pinched off?
Cucumber with anxiety ... yep, sounds about right ... ;-)
Glad to report sweet corn still standing despite strong storms.
LOL Funny caption- Here’s some more funnies to brighten everyone’s day:
I can’t believe i forgot to go to the gym today- that’s like 7 years in a row now
And
You know how you buy a bag of salad and it gets all brown and soggy quickly? Cookies don’t do that
And:
Bought a head of lettuce today- should i just throw it out now? In wait 2 weeks like i usually do?
My cukes themselves (not just me!) must be anxious or something .... ton of blooms, not one baby cuke to be found. My jalapenos have peppers, my tomatoes plants have tomatoes .... lots of pollinators around, but I don’t think they are visiting the cukes!
Now that I’ve mentioned this, I suppose we’ll be overrun with cukes in the near future!
PS- found my first “puffs” (balloons) on my Love-in-a-Puff (balloon) vines. I grow mine in an old stock tank so they don’t run amuck elsewhere.
Balloon Vine, Heart Vine, Heart Seed
http://www.eattheweeds.com/balloon-vine-heart-vine-heart-seed/
You know how you buy a jug of milk and a couple of weeks later it’s curdled and vile-smelling?
Bourbon doesn’t do that.
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