Mid summer gardens

[DixieDreamer]

So it is mid summer now... and the garden once again feels very different.

The flower garden needs a major haircut to encourage another bloom cycle from my salvia and centrathus. I hope to get that done on Sunday.

The vegetable garden is in high production. We are enjoying a variety of fresh tomatoes (roma, heirloom brandywines, grape tomatoes, and super fantastics), zuchinni, pole beans, onions, and still getting brocolli as well. The cabbage is forming huge heads and I could start using it now if I was not so overwhelmed with all the other items! LOL!

I forget how much better the fresh veggies taste compared to the store purchases.

How are your gardens doing? What is "on" right now?

 

[olena]

Roses, butterfly bushes, cannas and purple heart.

 

[sorcerormickey]

Daylillies everywhere!! I can't even keep the petunias under control - I cut them back once a week and they are still huge! And the rudbeckia, coneflowers, and black eyed susans are blooming - seems to early tho.

Plus, DAHLIAS!!!!! DAHLIAS EVERYWHERE!!! I have 22 plants - only 2 have not started blooming yet. I love my dahlias!

 

[marydmjj]

So much is happening. We are enjoying one of the best & warmest NW summers I can remember. I'm sure we will pay for it this winter but right now it is awesome.

I have daylilies, purple coneflower, hyssop, roses, hydrangea, hollyhock & dahlia blooming. I also have flowers on my squash and pumpkins. It's all very exciting.

 

[Mamu]

Yes July is almost over, and what was suppose to be a great veggie years is running late again. We had so much rain with very little sun during June that the flowers on the tomatoes rotted and fell off. Darn it! there goes all my early tomatoes.

All is not lost, although we have not had a real hot weather, more then ample rain. The garden had started to produce. A few of the tomatoes that did not fall off are starting to ripen.

Peppers are another thing, they really need the hot nights to flourish, looks like we're not getting any this summer, but they are starting to flower and produce peppers.

Lots of green beans and wax bean, zucchini and summer squash, cukes, broccoli, swiss chard. Large heads on the cabages. No eggplant another plant that is suffering from the lack of heat and too much water.

Flower gardens are loving this summer, considering they were very stressed after last summers drought. Daylilies, coreopsis, coneflowers and blackeyed susans are flowering like crazy. Yarrow and hollyhocks are on their last hurrah, they were beautiful this year. Balloonflowers are just starting to open up, grasses have gone crazy, they sure do like all this rain. Rosemallow has buds and should be opening this week. Liatris are in full bloom. Cardinal flower and beard tongue are also blooming (2 of my favorites) One complaint too many bugs they sure do like this wet, not to hot summer.

I have been out taking pic's daily since I purchased my new digital camera. I may try to figure out how to post tomorrow.

 

[Snowwark]

All this veggie talk is making me hungry!! Someday, someday, I'm going to have a vegetable garden too! Right now though, my pole bean plants are tall and healthy looking, but no beans yet. My tomatoes are coming along, no blossom end rot this year, thank goodness! Yesterday, I picked my first cherry tomatoes and had them for lunch, all 4 of them....lol.. That's it for the veggies.

My pinchusion flowers are really putting on a show this year, the best yet! My coneflowers are putting on their display, and the black eyed susies are just starting to open. Like Mamu, my yarrow is past it's prime, also my delphiniums (being clobbered by basketballs didn't help..lol). The salvia needs a trimming, but it looked great! The new daylilies seem to be happy, as does my new hydrangea. One of my three new gaillardia is blooming like crazy, I think the others aren't getting quite enough sun. I might have to move them.

This might be the last year for my obedient flowers. They didn't do well last year, and not faring too well now. I did talk to them about it, so they were warned!!

I don't know what's up with the moonflowers vine I planted. It's in a container, and has wound it's way up the obelisk, but no flowers yet, and the leaves don't look very good, all crinkly and weird. I know they can be slow to flower, and aren't too found of being fertilized, but I've grown them before, no problem. Can't figure it out. Oh well....

 

[Mamu]

Forget the pic. I have no idea what I did wrong but their gone. Lost somewhere in cyber space. I can't find them or retrieve them. It's back to square one. I will be taking more pictures this week and trying again. Hopefully one of these days I have a clue as to how to preform this simple function. I think I missed do something, maybe it was collecting my brain before I started to download.

Try again.

 

[Snowwark]

You lost your pics, Mamu? Had you uploaded/downloaded (I never know which one it is), them onto your computer or website, or did they accidently get deleted while still in the camera?

 

[Mamu]

I have no idea what I did wrong. There gone. I should have waited for DS to return for vacation. I'm very thick headed sometimes and think I know it all.

I am going to take the new pic's to the camera shop where I purchased the camera and have him show me how to download them onto the CD writer. It's tough to be olded schooled.

Thats the reason I purchased the camera early. So I would learn through my mistakes. You can bet I'll have the Photo Shop download my Italy pic's. Not taking any chances.

The camera is very easy to use. It's an Olympus Stylus 400 and it takes great pic's, I think

 

[Snowwark]

Awww.....you'll figure it out Mamu, I know you will!!

Mine is a Canon, and it took me awhile to figure it out. I hate reading instructions, and do much better if someone just shows me how to do something.....over and over and over again.

 

[DixieDreamer]

Everyone's gardens sound wonderful! Love the cyber tours.

We'll wait patiently for you to figure out the pictures thing. I have a suspicion your gardens are worth the wait.