Gardening without ponytail

My daughter and I went to our community garden plot a little over a week ago to clean things up. To entertain her I showed her how to use my digital camera. After a while she said, “It is beeping at me and won’t work!” I assumed the battery had run out. To my surprise, she had filled the whole memory card!

I also forgot to put my hair in a ponytail which was annoying. I felt like Cousin It but she thought it was really funny and took this picture . . .

Here is what is left of the fall garden. Collards. Kohlrabi. Turnips. Lettuce. Also, parsley, but it is in another part of the garden.

She took some decent pictures of other people’s garden also. Here are some lovely asparagus plants in a neighbor’s garden. Their fall color is terrific. I think I’m going to plant some in my back yard next year though it will be years before the plants look like this.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Garden bloggers’ bloom day – November 2010

I’ve never participated in Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day before now. I’m just amazed that I still have any blooms left this November so I had to share. My leggy hybrid tea rose has a solitary bloom, up high and very difficult to get a good picture of.

Also, gaillardia ‘Oranges and Lemons’. It is a volunteer from a plant that I had last year. I hope I have more volunteers next year. It looked much better in the summer, completely covered in flowers.

Happy November!

 

Before the freeze

It is going to be unreasonably cold tonight. It is supposed to get down to 25. Normally the first frost is October 15th and it is never this cold. I picked the last of the fall beans from the community garden plot last night. Here are some parting shots of my backyard:

And a dead tomato plant at my parents house that looks like on of those eggplants that look like pumpkins on a stick. That was a mouthful. It is a variety called ‘Red Star’. I don’t like it very much but it looks cool in this picture.

Hello, cold!