Ah... Summer in Ohio. Energy-sapping heat, hoards of bloodsucking mosquitoes, and suffocating humidity. I dashed into the garden early in the day to snap a few pics.
Birdhouse gourd flowers
Juliet "very early" tomatoes -- will these rascals never ripen?
Along with homegrown tomatoes, I consider fresh lettuce the only other reason to endure Summer.
Fernleaf dill
When it was time to plant green beans this Spring, I looked at the seed packet and said, "Nah. I don't really like green beans all that much." Then the radishes came and went and I was left with vacant real estate. I'll give 'em credit, they sprouted and leafed out within a week. A vegetable is a vegetable is a vegetable, I guess, so I'll try some new recipes with them.I'm growing flowers for cutting for the first time this year. First up: Zinnias.
It was worth a quick trip out to the road to check on the Coneflowers. The colony is spreading.
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Thanks for Everyone's kind comments about Lily. She's put on a few pounds in the past few days. She's settling in and saw a doctor, passed her tests, and had her shots. The vet said she's about a year old, the wounds on her throat are probably from a shock collar, and she hasn't been spayed--yet.
The Humane Society of the U. S. website says 6,000,000 - 8,000,000 animals enter animal shelters every year, half are adopted and the other half--three and a half million--are euthanized (a politically correct word for murdered) every year.
I wonder how many more die as strays. I trust there is an especially hot and acrid room in Hell for the person responsible for her current condition and I feel lucky that we can try to make things right.
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I'm sure Lily is also grateful to have found a good human.
Hmmm, lettuce.
Beautiful pictures! I wish you the best of luck with your new dog.
Our 3 humane society cats love walking through our My Muskoka flowers and garden. Cukes are growing, muskrat might let them be this year. Especially since we just put out house on the market today!!!
My granddaughter's dog, Lacy... was found as a lost and starving puppy, someone had stretched a broken balloon around her neck, was digging into her skin! Such Cruelty!
I don't have ripe tomatoes yet either! Maybe cook those future gr. beans just a few minutes Jain and add them to any salad you make!
♥...Wanda
Thanks for sharing your images, Jain. My lettuce here in the Mid-Atlantic has already become bitter and bolted.
The flowers of the birdhouse gourd are very pretty, I've never grown them! I have one ripe tomato!
Do all the birds inyour yard think the new fence is for perching. For awhile the Doves treated it like a cage. They 'all' seem to love the fence!
♥...Wanda
greentangle, I don't know about gratitude, but I hope she's found some peace and security.
Green Gal, thanks so much for the good wishes.
Jenn, put! the! house! on! the! market??? Did I miss this on your blog? I can't believe it.
Wanda, oh, how I hate balloons--and fishing monofilament--I gather them whenever I see them. Thanks for the green bean "recipe"! I like the gourd flowers, too, hope they produce some birdhouses for us. Still no tomatoes. :o( I haven't see many birds on the fence--but then, it's on the opposite side of the house from the feeders.
Scott, I've had great luck with New Fire Red lettuce from Pinetree Seeds (there are similar varieties from other growers). They produce like crazy as I pick-pick-pick through the summer and there's no bolting till late in the season--which a second planting would take care of.
Your greenly veggies looks nice and delicious. For the radishes, i suggest you try to cook the radish leaf pesto. It really taste good.
Hi, Rose, I'd love to see a recipe for radish leaf pesto! I know folks who eat radish leaves but I have found them to be rather prickly.
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