What's blooming in your yard?

[TrueNorthTreasures]

I experimented with growing Great White tomatoes this summer. Today's pick was 1 lb 11 oz! It's not a fancy picture, but here it is...

[Giseledta]

very nice!!!!


we are putting in another garden bed. right now its all about soil prep for it. My husband would like to grow a large pumpkin..... a very , very large pumpkin....... so we are prepping the area for one.

[itsmewhoelse]

thx Patty my one hydrangea didnt bloom this year. I was so looking forward to those big beautiful blooms too.
And now my lovely dog has trampled my new boomerang lilac too! Of course he couldnt have trampled the sale lilacs! grrrrr. I hope it can boomerang back lol

[Patty Smyth]

thx Patty my one hydrangea didnt bloom this year. I was so looking forward to those big beautiful blooms too.
And now my lovely dog has trampled my new boomerang lilac too! Of course he couldnt have trampled the sale lilacs! grrrrr. I hope it can boomerang back lol

Same problem with one of mine and now I know I was trimming it improperly

[TrueNorthTreasures]

Some leeks and a Golden beet I harvested today. (The beets were planted late and are just now getting big enough to eat!)

[Inlovewithblue]

Vegetables & 6'+ dill

[Angela273]

There is a frost warning for a large section of the province tonight, we are on the edge of the frost warning. The Weather Network is forecasting a low of 2 tonight, but "feels like -3." I am still trying to figure out what I want to do with my vegetable garden. Tomorrow night's forecast low is 2 again. If I can successfully protect my vegetable garden for the next two nights, the forecast is for nice growing weather all the way into Oct. My squash plants were stunted this year because I grew too much dill for a friend (unfortunately she took the dill home later in the season...and it all went mouldy at her house because she didn't do anything with it...which frustrates me even more because it damaged my vegetable plants in the meantime).

It rained here a lot over the last two days, so the ground is currently saturated.


I would like your opinions, please.
I am thinking about picking any tomatoes that are changing colours and taking those into the house. I have sheets and a couple of extra blankets that I can use to protect other plants. I want to cover my tomatoes (about 14 plants that currently have some support steaks), my squashes (spaghetti, butternut, zucchini), and maybe my second planting of peas. I have some dill plants growing with my squashes, so they will help to keep the sheets from laying directly on top of the plant's leaves. I also have 3 rows of Swiss chard that I'd prefer to protect, instead of harvesting it all tonight.
Do you think this is a good plan. Is there anything you would change? What time (or temperature) do you think I should wait until/before I cover the plants?

Any help is appreciated.
Thank you all.

[Patty Smyth]

What about some drop sheets of plastic you can get them at the dollar store.

[Angela273]

What about some drop sheets of plastic you can get them at the dollar store.

I thought that sheets were supposed to keep them warmer than plastic would?

[Patty Smyth]

I just mentioned it in case you didn't have enough sheets.

[Patty Smyth]

sniff sniff time to start putting things to bed

[Angela273]

They ultimately forecast 3 consecutive nights of frost. So I harvested almost everything back on Thursday. I covered my squash patch with multiple blankets. Interesting this is...nothing has gotten frost just yet. Coldest it got to was 0 the one night. We still have tonight to and Sunday night now too. I'll continue to cover the squash patch. I harvested nearly every tomato, 3 rows of Swiss chard, the red rhubarb, and all the decent sized squash. I still have 2 ok sized spaghetti squash in the garden because they are just way too green right now...that's part of why I am trying to protect them. Hoping they will get to the point of harvesting.

I have lots of vegetables to fix up and preserve (in the freezer).

[GoJays]

sniff sniff time to start putting things to bed

It's like we all just started chatting in this thread This summer went by way too fast.

[Patty Smyth]

This summer was pretty awful on the weather scale here. I am looking for ward to next year already. Hopefully it won't be a long winter like last year.

[Angela273]

Can someone please help me identify this squash? I think that it is a cross polination. I planted butternut squash, spaghetti squash, and zucchini all together in my vining patch. I am not sure what to call it and without chopping it open, I'm not sure how I will cook it either.