Hall of Flowers

Monday, October 4, 2010

Twilight or Graybeard ? ?

We have started calling Twilight 'Graybeard'. After her medical issues last spring, during which she lost all the hair off streaks down her backbone ( which are going back nicely ) we noticed that along her cheekbones, the hair was gray. Looks kinda weird but interesting.

Might be hard to see here.

I guess it makes her look distinquished.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Strawberry Bed Project

Grandma Hall wanted to get rid of the strawberry plants that were in her 1/2 water tank and plant some greens, so she gave me the plants. I dug them last week and planted her some lettuce, turnips and mustard. I needed a place to plant them so Frank built this box to attach to the sandbox garden, we filled it with fresh dirt and compost.

I turned it with my twister tool and got ready to plant.

Finished bed of Strawberries. Looking forward to lots of berries next year.

Pepper plants and box gardens

I had some hot pepper plants in pots.

Denise said I could plant in her 3 box gardens, so I left a few of her plants and added beets, lettuce, turnips, kale and mustard greens. They are just coming up.

Fish in Pond

I snapped a few pictures of the fish and the pond. They seem to be doing well.

New way to cook okra

I have seen okra grilled ( Karen ) and my neighbor said he bakes his whole so I tried something new. I cut and breaded the okra as usual then sprayed a sheet pan with Pam, spread the okra and sprayed it, then baked in hot (500*) oven. Turned out crispy and tasty.

This was our vegetable dinner that night, the okra, white beans, leftover Mexican cornbread for me and roll for Frank, and my 'cheat' salad, just cut up veggies.

Tall Sunflower and some Cosmos

We had a sunflower that grew in my squash row and it got very tall.

I don't think I have posted this picture of some cosmos I started from seed in the greenhouse. They turned out to be easy to transplant and really brightened up the flower beds. I had pink tones and yellow tones.