Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Update #8

Fall is in the air! It was in the low 60s this morning during my photo walk around the garden. I'm sure we've got a lot of warm days still to come, but it's time to start thinking about apples, sweaters, and not avoiding using the oven.

I'm not sure if you recall the tall weed that is ubiquitous around here. I had told you it has pretty purple flowers. I don't think I've posted a photo of those yet. Here they are:


A bunch of them sprung up around the tree stump in front. They are actually quite pretty, but they show up everywhere and it's tough to keep them in one place, and they don't look that great when they haven't bloomed yet.
We're starting to get more tomatoes. Here are some "pink caspians".



We had a couple of little surprises. One was a very late asparagus shoot. In about 4 days it grew 4 feet! It's on the left half of the photo (click to enlarge) - a wide-branched, spindly stalk. you might be able to see that it's taller than the fence.



And the second surprise: a clematis blossom! This makes a total of three: two right after planting, and one three months later.

The beets have picked up steam and whatever was eating the leaves has stopped. We should check to see if any of them are big enough to eat.

The hostas that you and Jason planted next to the brick walkway are doing great and blossoming right now.

In non-garden news, we went camping this past weekend. Aubrey really enjoyed swinging in the hammock with Daddy.

And here is a random cute photo with no context.

She isn't crawling yet but is really trying!

Hope to talk to you soon!

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