today's harvest... still!

 

 This is a large serving platter, not a normal-sized plate, so stuff is bigger than you think.

Dropped one tomato, so need to use that 1st, two were over-ripe or something, so they went to the chickens. THIS is why it's so hard to yank out  plants (e.g., squash, tomato) in late summer to plant winter stuff.

So, thinking I FINALLY need to get movin' on spaghetti sauce this week.

Pretty much all winter veggies are still tiny cotyledons. Happily next 5 days or so will get up to 80s, so maybe the plants will grow? =) Skippy's garden is pretty much convincing me I need to fabricate some sort of cold frames to get these guys growing.

xobbb

P.S. Cool ocean etc. pics from this weekend coming up. Took over 200, so it's taking me a while to process and then finally select a few to share. xo

finally a harvest--yeah!

 
Be it ever so humble (and accidentally marked by my fingernail--oops!), the lovely sunburst squash:

  
I'm thinking it'll get grilled tonight, along with many other veggie friends...

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arrrgh!

    
I, JUST THIS MINUTE, having started cleaning 'cause guests are coming our way, have found THE SUNFLOWER SEED PACKETS THAT I KNEW I'd ordered but COULDN'T FIND!

And it's August 8th?!?

Seriously?!?

OGL

So, folks, do I plant them this year and see what happens? Or maybe plant half this year and half next year?

What would YOU do if you found three pretty packets of sunflower seeds (Tiger's Eye mix, Supermane sunflower, and Miriam edible) in mid-summer?

We pretty much have good weather through October, I think, so I've got at least 3 months. 2 years ago it didn't freeze till sometime in December. Days to maturity: Meriam - 60-70, Tiger's eye mix 85-100, Supermane sunflower 100-110.

Would you be willing to VOTE re: what I should do? I'm curious re: different approaches you might take/advise.

biobabbler

(a.k.a. she-who-can-misplace-an-Army-tank)
p.s. and I repeat: arrrgh!