Sunday, September 30, 2012

Fall colours


A few photos to capture the beautiful colour of Fall..... 


The purple Aster blooms gloriously in the Fall... 


Limelight Hydrangea slowly starting to turn pink/blush colour.... 


Happy Autumn! 

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Floral recap


Another recap of this summer's plants - here are the variety of flowers from the garden.  Can you identify them all?  :)

Friday, September 7, 2012

End of season roundup - vegetables


The end of the vegetable growing season is near and here's a nice little collage of this summer's various harvest.  Starting from left to right, top to bottom:

French Breakfast Raddish / Bak Choy / Variety of lettuces (Paris Island, Red Salad Bowl, Four Seasons, Arugula)
Nasturdium (Edible flower) / Red Onion / Cherry tomatoes
Cayenne pepper / Thai Basil / English Cucumber
Roma Tomato / Basil (right edge of photo) / Chioggia Beet (heirloom variety for the red & white stripes)

Other things that I didn't get a chance to include in the collage:
Rosemary, Oregano, Mint, Dill, Solar Yellow Carrot, and Strawberries!

I tried to keep track of the amount, but I think I lost track after a while... next year I'm buying a scale to weight the harvest:

   


I have to say this summer's vegetable growing experiment was quite successful (and extremely fun!).  Perhaps it was the early start to the summer or the several weeks of heat wave we had, I found that some of the vegetable plants (such as the cherry tomatoes) were starting to look pretty "tired" starting in mid-August. As well, the variety of plants I planted were mostly harvested early to mid-summer, so towards the end of the summer there were not very many things to harvest.  I think next year I will plant more variety so that there will be some things to harvest into the Fall.  Pumpkin anyone? 

P.S. I was very happy with the vegetable plants resulted from the seeds I purchased from Urban Harvest - they've got a huge selection of organic and heirloom seeds.  Check them out and buy local!  


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