The bigger garlic heads are Music, the smaller ones are Spanish Roja, I think. I'll save about 5 of the largest to plant next year. Raised bed, inside fence, made a big difference. Animals didn't eat them and they did really well. The fall planted ones were bigger than the spring planted ones/
These are Shirley poppies. It's interesting how many seeds one can collect from the pods, even though the pods seem small. I'll continue saving them, since the honeybees like them so much and there aren't as many other bee forage plants blooming now.
The Four O'Clocks are all volunteer. I moved a few seedlings this Spring and left the rest where they were. I think they are a few generations past the original seed packet now. There were only two yellow flowered plants. I want to save those seeds, so I labeled them. They are open-pollinated so who knows what the seedlings will be. Honeybees don't seem to like them. Despite being Four O'Clocks, they seem to bloom best in the am so should be "Nine Am O'Clocks". :-)
This dark one is especially brilliant. It's not a pure red. I think the marble types interbred with the pure color types.
These are wild petunias. The flowers are the same size as the Four O'Clocks, but the leaves are very different. Also, they stay open in the afternoon, when the Four O'Clock flowers are closed.
I just like taking photos of flowers with bees.
I didn't think the honeybees were into dahlias, but this time there were a few.
Before and after. I wanted to take him to a groomer because he is very strong and Mr. Squirmasaurus and I'm still recovering from surgery. However, when I took him there, the waiting area was a tiny enclosed space and there were three women struggling with three very large pitbulls. And none of those people were wearing masks. Not wanting to contract coronavirus just to have him groomed, I took him home and did it myself and here we are. Not the best grooming job, but then again no viruses were contracted in this bath and haircut. All that wool will go into the compost, lots of Nitrogen and Sulfur.
After. I guess in the time of coronavirus, casual clothes are accepted.
Before the haircut. Where's the dog under all that wool?
Lots of food and collecting seeds. Shirley poppy seed heads are becoming light brown, so I cut them off and place them, pod down, into glass jars. The dry seeds fall into the jar for collection. It works out almost the same for garlic chives.
Harvest: beans, potatoes, cucumbers, a few peppers, blackberries, a few figs, Asian pears.
Here is a cucumber salad I made, all but onions from the victory garden.
