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September 8, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Flowers, Garden, Photos

End Of The Season

Here are a few photos of the garden taken at the end of August. We are still picking tomatoes, using basil in pesto and caprese salads, picking beans and cucumbers and harvesting a few of the carrots. We also have Concord grapes that need to be made into jelly and apples to pick. I’m way behind with my blogging as we were out of town during the Labor Day weekend and have spent the past week preparing for the kids to return to school. Lots to do and not nearly enough time to do it.

Pictures from Labor Day weekend and the first day of school for Sophia coming soon.

August 18, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Flowers, Garden, Photos

Pretty Little Zinnias

Sophia went to a garden-themed birthday party way back in May. Each child at the party planted seeds into a small pot and brought them home as their party favor. Sophia watered her seeds when she got home and after several days the seeds came up. We kept the small pot outside on our deck and made sure the plants were watered. Through several torrential downpours in June, the little seedlings survived. Sophia lost interest in them a bit as the weeks passed. We did make sure they stayed water, but they probably could have used some fertilizer and a big pot. Just this past week I noticed that there were buds forming on the small plants. Sophia became excited to see what kind of flowers the plants would have. She was surprised to see that the first two blooms were different colors. They aren’t the most exquisite of flowers, but we agreed that she had grown some pretty little zinnias.

There are a few more plants with buds and Sophia is anxiously awaiting to see if they will bloom in different colors too.

August 2, 2012 M. Sullivan Photography Garden, Photos

Container Gardening, A Mini Tour

A little over two weeks ago I posted about my container garden. Plentiful sunshine and lots of watering has allowed for the tomatoes to ripen, the zucchini and summer squash to produce fruit, the bean plants to bloom and grow small beans and the cucumbers to go crazy. Here’s a mini garden tour.

I can’t wait to pinch off a few leaves of basil and make some bruschetta this weekend. French bread, fresh mozzarella, vine ripened tomatoes and tender basil leaves. Yum! I can almost taste it.

My pepper plant blooms, but drops the buds before they turn into tiny peppers. I think the plant may be diseased or maybe it’s just mad at me.

Sebastian and I thinned the carrots this week. We each sampled a small carrot. Sebastian said that it was delicious and way better than store-bought. Success!

And a big thank you to the bee that has helped make my garden vegetables possible.

We found this print in our small fenced-in garden. We don’t plant much in it anymore. The trees nearby have grown and provide way too much shade. We did plant some leftover seeds and have a few peas, beans, carrots, pumpkins, cucumbers and squash. Apparently the fence surrounding the garden isn’t high enough though. A hungry deer hopped the fence and proceeded to nibble on the bean plants.

We also busted a chipmunk eating sugar snap peas and trying his hand at a cherry tomato. We put out a live trap so that we can relocate him to a nearby woods. So far he has enjoyed some free food and made a sneaky exit before getting trapped. We were able to catch his partner in crime two weeks ago when he went up a water downspout off our house. We emptied him into our old cat carrier and Mike found him a new home two miles from our house. We really would like to catch the second chipmunk so that they can be reunited.

And last, but not least, here are a few photos of the amazing brown-eyed Susan growing in the backyard.