From commentor JeffG166:
9.18.2022
I didn’t plant this. It seeded itself between the bricks in the sidewalk. I didn’t water it at all. My neighbor across the street told me the dogs watered it. If I tried to do this it wouldn’t have worked.
9.24.2022
An amaranth grown last year that seeded itself this year.
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I’m officially out of garden chat photos… if you don’t want me to resort to posting semi-related news stories, look through your files and send me more pictures!
(*After* Tuesday, of course.)
The next few days here, north of Boston, are supposed to be unseasonably warm & pleasant. So I’m hoping to make some progress in getting my ‘garden’ in order for the winter… even if a few of the cherry tomatoes in the root pouches are still bravely putting out fruit.
What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
sab
All my annuals except for the marigolds (little troupers) have keeled over for the approachimg winter. Just planted my bulbs. Daffodils will stay put. Others may migrate because squirrels.
Been reading a novel with a major/minor character named Amaranthus. Googled it and got nothing. Now I understand who her author meant her to be.
sab
@sab: Pretty but tough and resilient.
eclare
Very pretty!
Jeffery
The tulip bulbs for next year are in the big pot I had. They are wrapped up for the winter.
Now I am breaking down the garden and throwing it into the winter compost pile. This is getting to be hard to do every year. It now takes a good deal of the winter to gather it all up to put in the pile.
Still have lots of foxglove seedlings to stick in everywhere there is an opening. They may or may not winter over. Also have some annual poppies and a number of coreopsis seedling to put in as well.
OzarkHillbilly
I love plants* that grow from seed to flowering all on their own. I just can’t tear them out no matter how inconveniently placed they might be. I admire their grit, fortitude, and determination too much to deny them life.
* with the exception of some invasives
JR
No surprises on amaranth, there’s a variety “pigweed” that grows everywhere around here.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: agree! That’s the best kind of gardening JeffG166, plant once and let ’em rip. Beautiful!
The unseasonably warm weather here has moved on with a rainy, high wind day pushing it eastward. I had planted my replacement hardy hibiscus, a couple more day lillies, and all but 5 daffodil bulbs that I’m not sure where to put. I have a holiday market today so no yard work will get done, but there’s little left to do until a killing frost finally ends the begonias and coneflowers still putting out blooms, and the tomatoes still slowly ripening. That’s due toward the end of the week.
satby
Yesterday, it was 8:01 before dawn started li tightening up the sky in the east. Today the beautiful pink sky is showing at 7:01 and that’s so much better.
Betsy
Hoping to enjoy the time change, because it means I get up “earlier,” even though I don’t care for the silliness we all are compelled to engage in twice a year (and it only seems more nonsensical as one ages).
oldgold
@Betsy: Today’s daylight saving time “reset” made me happy. Finally, the clock on my microwave is correct again.
oldgold
A while ago, I wrote about here about volunteers growing in my driveway:
“As a rule, I do not brag about my horticultural skills; however, I have developed, over time, a unique area of expertise.
As a consequence of East of Eden being located in the Twilight Hardy Zone,every winter my lawn suffers 4th degree winter burns. So, every Spring, otherwise called the Fourth of July, I over-seed, fertilize and water my thin and balding patch of brave green spears.
Unfortunately, these annual epic and expensive efforts to keep the County Weed Commissioner at bay fail spectacularly. But, in so doing, I have developed an otherworldly skill for raising the most beautiful bluegrass, this side of Bill Monroe and/ or the most fertile valley in Kentucky, in the cracks of my driveway.
This remarkable skill is akin to the ability, I developed in the spring time of my dotage, growing hair on the gnarly knob of my aged nose.”
StringOnAStick
Hard freeze and 5″ of heavy wet snow recently , then rain so it’s all gone and with the wind, so are the leaves.
When my garden transformation story was posted, a commentator asked for some photos of the lichens I mentioned. I’ll put together a lichen post after Tuesday.
Yutsano
We had a massive windstorm hit the Pacific Northwest. There’s been some serious damage to the trees. But the one that really makes me sad is we lost our green bean tree. It really was a dramatic showstopper!
MobiusKlein
Last Saturday, went on a Lupin seeding effort on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco. Part of an effort to provide host plants for the endangered Mission Blue butterfly. Hard work on steep slopes
The big unknown was water, as always. But since then, it has rained in sf, not hard but wetter than many Novembers. So who knows, maybe there is a chance.
In actual garden news, it is oxalis weeding season. So for lunch break, I go out and touch grass, then KILL it.