What Did You Do In The Garden?

[digitS']

We had stuffed bell peppers yesterday for dinner.

It's the time when there are just too many of them to use 1 & 2 at a time. Along with chopped sweet peppers in the stuffing, a few jalapeños went in as well ... and cherry tomatoes. Under the cheese on top and the little pepper stem cap, of course there was rice, onions and ground beef.

Steve

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Clipping and trimming rhody’s, pine trees , potinia’s and Rosemary . Took out a huge butterfly bush roots an all it was a whopper 20’x18’. It’s toast now. Stupid bush..

 

[flowerbug]

...Took out a huge butterfly bush roots an all it was a whopper 20’x18’. It’s toast now. Stupid bush..

i objected when Mom planted some where she did back next to another garden because i knew they could spread so easily. yes, it's been a large pain in the butt ever since then.

 

[digitS']

Recovered the southeast corner of the greenhouse (sunshed). I hope it was worthwhile. The uv-resistant film was new and leftover from complete replacement about 5 years ago. What was put up then cannot last much longer, however. Summer sunlight is what damages plastic film and it made it through 2025.

I say sunlight but wind puts stress on it. And, you know what else can damage it? Something trying to climb up that sloping south wall.

I don't know what it was but suspect — a racoon. I scared off one about 2 weeks ago but the damage was about 2 years ago and has already been patched by extending the bar caps boards. Raccoon because the original damage was a little higher up than a cat might has caused and probably because of toenails and trying to gain traction. And, for what? Trying to explore the roof? Damn him!

 

[Dahlia]

We had stuffed bell peppers yesterday for dinner.

It's the time when there are just too many of them to use 1 & 2 at a time. Along with chopped sweet peppers in the stuffing, a few jalapeños went in as well ... and cherry tomatoes. Under the cheese on top and the little pepper stem cap, of course there was rice, onions and ground beef.

Steve

Do you mind sharing your stuffed bell pepper recipe? That sounds good!

 

[SPedigrees]

Two recent frosts killed most of my potted porch plants, so I emptied all the pots, except for the still-hanging-on petunias and snapdragons. The next freeze will probably wipe out those remaining plants. Time to replace them with pumpkins I guess. I relocated all my windchimes from the open front porch to the enclosed back porch for winter.

Nothing living remained in my raised beds, so I chopped and dropped the tomato plants (will be surprised if I don't get a few volunteer tomato plants next summer) and the orange cosmos in the whisky barrel planter. Not sure why I haven't been using this method in past years, but it makes sense to use the spent plants as soil enrichment.