A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

The Four O'Clocks are officially blooming! They smell soooo good too. I plan to save the roots to plant for next year, so maybe I can get them to bloom earlier. I bought a package of seeds that were supposed to be all marbled flowers, but so far some of them are also pure pink. I like them all regardless though, I've always liked this species.

 

[heirloomgal]

The 'Nomad' pepper. Possibly the best pepper I've ever grown. I actually haven't had one in the ground I think since 2021 or 2022. Such good breeding went into this variety! I believe it's selected from 'Gypsy', the hybrid pepper. This one is quite immature, but it was a bit small when it went in, and didn't even get hardened off properly. But you can still see the goodly number of peppers on it, about a dozen so far - for Northern Ontario that's a lot! They're the biggest plants out there among all the sweet pepper varieties. It's a joy to grow again.

The 'Norderaas Busk' tomato. It took me 2 years to finally get this tomato to grow. I don't know why I had such trouble, it seems to be a weak seedling or something. The kind of variety I'm tempted to give up on. But once it went into the ground boy did it go. It's just covered in fruits now, more so than the picture can show. So glad I didn't toss the plant. It's looking promising. Of course, I'm very curious now to see how it tastes.

What a garden design FAIL. Why would I plant white delphinium next to white phlox? Maybe I didn't know the delph would be white. Can't remember. This will have to change, lol. But I give both plants credit as the phlox was put in last October and the delph this June. They really gained in size considering how young they are. This is my favorite phlox of all the ones I've tried. I may even get rid of my two tones pink ones. Time for a change.

'Kent Blue' peas are drying up Thank you so much @Decoy1
This is one of the most thrilling pea growing years I've ever had.