Gardeners! Share your garden photos and garden chatter here.

[terri]

They're really pretty. It's almost a good problem to have, except for actually blocking the light as you mentioned. They sound pretty aggressive, or maybe they just really like their location in your garden!

 

[Rickbb]

We stopped growing the cosmos, they take over and get very tall then fall over. They are really nice when they start blooming, but when the bed gets mature are not so pretty.

 

[SquarePeg]

Another really mild fall - that’s 3 years in a row! I’m enjoying the extended gardening time. Still cutting gorgeous dahlias and zinnias. I did start some clean up today, pulling many of the cosmos that fell over in the storm on Saturday. This week’s weather will be great for getting some of the back garden squared away.

 

[terri]

Wow, that's a great weather pattern you there. We've been more wet and chilly here. I still have a few potted annuals in bloom, and the pink hydrangeas in the front look pretty nice.

Beyond that, we're in full fall cleanup mode. We have a beautiful, mature Crimson King maple in the back side yard that's showering us with gorgeous rusty colored leaves right now. We're mulching what we can, and lining up the rest for the city leaf-sweeper. (Our city makes mulch available for residents' use each year.)


Supposed to be in the low 70sF. later in the week.

 

[SquarePeg]

Wow, that's a great weather pattern you there. We've been more wet and chilly here. I still have a few potted annuals in bloom, and the pink hydrangeas in the front look pretty nice.

Beyond that, we're in full fall cleanup mode. We have a beautiful, mature Crimson King maple in the back side yard that's showering us with gorgeous rusty colored leaves right now. We're mulching what we can, and lining up the rest for the city leaf-sweeper. (Our city makes mulch available for residents' use each year.)


Supposed to be in the low 70sF. later in the week.

I like to leave the furniture out on the deck until thanksgiving unless we’re expecting snow. Sometimes we’ll get a mild day in November and then we can sit out there and enjoy it.

Today’s bouquet

 

[cgw]

Survivors outside cold frames got whacked by last night's heavy frost. Leaf rakes at the ready!

 

[Ysarex]

Four days away from forecast first frost. Time to say goodbye. Fuji X-T2 w/23mm f/1.4 TTArtisan

 

[terri]

Four days away from forecast first frost. Time to say goodbye. Fuji X-T2 w/23mm f/1.4 TTArtisan

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*sniffle*

Mine aren't this pretty, but are hanging on trying to ripen with a freeze about 5 days away.

 

[Ysarex]

*sniffle*

Mine aren't this pretty, but are hanging on trying to ripen with a freeze about 5 days away.

I'm ready to start cleaning up. I ran the mower for the last time yesterday and chopped down the remaining sunflowers. We do still have a lot of dahlias blooming and they're going to take a hit but maybe the mums will make it through. The flower garden has 1/2 dozen items in pots that I am really ready to stop watering every day.

 

[SquarePeg]

Four days away from forecast first frost. Time to say goodbye. Fuji X-T2 w/23mm f/1.4 TTArtisan

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*sniffle*

Mine aren't this pretty, but are hanging on trying to ripen with a freeze about 5 days away.

@Ysarex that’s a nice harvest!

We pulled all our remaining tomatoes last week and put them in brown bags to ripen. Worked well! They were delish.

I'm ready to start cleaning up. I ran the mower for the last time yesterday and chopped down the remaining sunflowers. We do still have a lot of dahlias blooming and they're going to take a hit but maybe the mums will make it through. The flower garden has 1/2 dozen items in pots that I am really ready to stop watering every day.

I bought some frost cloth off Amazon to try to get my dahlias through any one night frosts. So far our weather is holding so haven’t had to use it yet. Most of the dahlias have dozens of large buds and I’d hate to lose them. We’ll see if it works.

But, once the frost is going to last more than one night, I’m done. I plan to leave some of the blooms out there and get some frost pics before the sun hits them and they turn black.

 

[Ysarex]

@Ysarex that’s a nice harvest!

We pulled all our remaining tomatoes last week and put them in brown bags to ripen. Worked well! They were delish.



I bought some frost cloth off Amazon to try to get my dahlias through any one night frosts. So far our weather is holding so haven’t had to use it yet. Most of the dahlias have dozens of large buds and I’d hate to lose them. We’ll see if it works.

But, once the frost is going to last more than one night, I’m done. I plan to leave some of the blooms out there and get some frost pics before the sun hits them and they turn black.

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We have a friend who's a dahlia nut and he gives us dahlias for the garden every year. This is the big planting -- there's orange/yellow ones along the fence. Frost Sunday night.

Here's a backed-up view of the whole garden -- mums blooming for a last hurrah.

 

[Rickbb]

Record highs this weekend, may break 85, then tues high is only 53 with a freeze that night. Weather whiplash.

Still getting beans, tomatoes and okra, very unusual to be getting them this late. But it will come to a hard stop tues, so starting the garden clean up in the heat before the big cool down.

Winter broccoli is doing great and on track to start harvisting around Thanksgiving
.

 

[terri]

@Ysarex that’s a nice harvest!

We pulled all our remaining tomatoes last week and put them in brown bags to ripen. Worked well! They were delish.



I bought some frost cloth off Amazon to try to get my dahlias through any one night frosts. So far our weather is holding so haven’t had to use it yet. Most of the dahlias have dozens of large buds and I’d hate to lose them. We’ll see if it works.

But, once the frost is going to last more than one night, I’m done. I plan to leave some of the blooms out there and get some frost pics before the sun hits them and they turn black.

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I love this shot!

 

[Ysarex]

Four days away from forecast first frost. Time to say goodbye. Fuji X-T2 w/23mm f/1.4 TTArtisan



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One day till frost now and it's going to rain. So I picked the first basket this afternoon -- finished just as it started to drizzle. I estimate at least another basket full still out there.

 

[cgw]

Tomatoes were a borderline bust for us. Weird varietals nurtured from seed in the basement grow-op got whacked by damp before ever seeing outdoors. Cool/wet summer brought blossom rot to ordinary nursery-bought stuff. Thought of my patient Little League coach who always soothed his loser team with: "There's always next season, kids."

The backyard burning bush made up for it this week. Fun to try spotting the cardinals who fly into it and hang out waiting for a shot at feeders.