A Day Late and a Dollar Short!

Here I am a day late posting my Monday Harvest!  Better late than never they say!

The garden will soon be history for 2014!  I pulled out my one green pepper plant and gave the peppers to our daughter.  Still have a few more yellow squash, one zucchini on the vine yet and maybe a few sungold tomatoes if they ripen!  A few greens growing in the cold frame.

A few raspberries are still hanging on.  Picking a few every other day and the pickings are getting slimmer now.  These needed picking the other day so I went out in my winter jacket with two sweatshirts under it and one of the hoods over my head to get the job done.  "Wonderful Gardener" has taken down the rain barrel and fountain and put in the garage.  Getting ready for the bad winter that some have predicted!!!!  Hope their wrong!

We celebrated our youngest son's birthday.  How did he grow up so fast with two children of his own now!  The two cards were made by the "littles".  Homade is best, don't you think!!!!

Sept. 29 Harvest and Downsizing

This assortment is what our little garden is still producing!  A few small tomatoes left yet too.

We have been busy canning applesauce.  Love our thick lumpy applesauce!  36 pints are done and now we have to do apple crisp for the freezer and dehydrated apples.  The honey is what I buy from a man around the corner from us.  Yum!

"Wonderful Gardener" is removing this area along the fence to make his life easier!  He is tired of pulling weeds!

"Wonderful Gardener" and Mike moved this barrel over near the deck from that area being removed.  It has spearmint and lemon balm in it.

Plants and a few small bushes were removed from around the fountain area and grass planted.  We are leaving a little circle for flowers around the fountain and I will have to redo the flowers next spring so that it will be prettier.  This has been the life at Cozy Thyme Cottage lately besides doctor appointments.  "Wonderful Gardener" says we wouldn't have a social life if it wasn't for our doctor appointments!!!!

Harvest, Vacation and Coco

I have not been faithful in taking pictures of the produce I have picked but here is a sample including what I harvested today.  I will be glad when the garden work is done for this year but not happy when I don't have anymore veggies and raspberries from our yard!

We were all out of jam and jelly so I made some freezer raspberry jam and threw a few blackberries in with it.  Yummy!  I need to find some smaller freezer containers as we don't eat that much jam at a time.

Coco snitched my only yellow tomato left and ate the whole thing! I was not too happy about that!  She said it was really yummy!  

This is the new raised bed "wonderful gardener" made to make my life easier next year!

This beautiful Cleome is growing in one of the cement blocks around the compost pile.  It adds a lot of color to the garden this time of year!

We went on a short vacation to TN.  Stayed overnight in Frankfort, KY one night.  These are the beautiful gardens in front of the governor's mansion.

There was also a beautiful floral clock in Frankfort.

Thoughts turn toward quilting this time of year.  This is just a scrap quilt I am making out of material I had.  Pinning the back and batting to it.  When the garden work slows down what hobby do you like to do???????

Flowers, Veggies, Change & Coco

  I think this is an Obedient plant.  "Wonderful Gardener" thought it was so pretty with the sun shining on it but the picture does not do it justice!

A nice big vegetable bowl full of raspberries!

More raspberries, yellow squash, cucumber and a couple little carrots.  Have not harvested very many carrots yet but I think most of them are small this year.

The mama squash and baby squash grew together.  I have never had that happen before!

There is "change" going on in our backyard this summer!!!!

My raspberry picker hard at work!

Can you see Coco back there to the left?  The Raspberry Picker's helper hard at work also!!!

Done picking raspberries!  Hmmmm.  Wonder if there is anything on the other side of this fence for me to help with!!!!  If they would only let me in to check it out!

Labor Day Report!!

Here it is Sept. 1st!  Beginning to feel like fall but we are still getting lots of rain and humidity.  Here is an assortment of veggies picked.

And some more picked!  I really think the garden is about done!

Vegetable bowl of raspberries.  So happy to have them still producing!!

We hosted our Bible Study.  I am not a flower arranger but it was so nice to go out in the yard and pick these and stick in a sundae glass!  Happy  Labor Day!

I am a Fair Weather Gardener!

This says it all folks!!!  I have to admit I am a fair weather gardener!  Too hot and I don't like to garden!  Too cold and I don't like to garden!  We have been having some pretty hot and humid days!  This is on our deck but the heat index felt like 100!

Here are some of the veggies I have been harvesting.

And a picture of more yummy goodies!

I have gotten quite a few green peppers off from my one pepper plant!

This is melon that I cut up and froze for my smoothies.  Couldn't resist the 99 cent price at Aldi's!  I don't have the room to grow melon.

And we got to help celebrate Melissa's birthday!

Friday we met my friend, Betty in Shipshewana, IN.  They have beautiful flowers and a lot of Amish live around there.

A lot of my perennials are done blooming but the rudbeckia are still  looking pretty.  Are there any others out there that will admit to being fair weather gardeners or should I feel guilty????

Berries, Veggies, Bread & Seeds

We are starting to get a few strawberries again!  How wonderful!!!

Starting to get raspberries once again.  The second wonderful!!  Large yellow tomato, green onion, lettuce and two cucumbers.  Happy for it all!  Just right for us two young folks and Coco!

More plus a green pepper!

Another green pepper!

Cucumber, my first yellow squash and a cucumber that got away from me!  Hate when that happens.

The cabbage is all harvested now.  Have some in the refrigerator for making cole slaw or freezing for soups.

I had not baked bread for quite awhile so was a happy camper to get this baked!

Has anyone grown Red Winter Kale before?  Purchased some seed and thought I would try it!  That's it for today!!!!!  Enjoy your harvests!