What do you see?

     What do you see  first, when you walk out your back door?  

                    Do you see a beautifully planted pot, or could it be a shady location of a comfy chair under your favorite tree? Maybe a happy patio decorated with vibrant colors of your favorite flowers, like roses, inpatients, geraniums, and daisies.

      I can only invision the beauty of others views...     
                     I have tried to make a view of my own.
I, on the other hand, couldn't get my vision completed... So the next step was to do something pretty and useful.   How does one define useful... Is it something to eat? Is it something to use? Or could it be pleasing to the eye?   This led up to the decision of planting BHGs (bird house gourds).  I really thought that I would get tons of gourds and a magic view of watching them grow before my eyes.

     Take a moment, just before stepping through  the view of your back door, enter outside and take that deep breath and smile, because maybe the view is looking back at you saying what in the H E double hockey sticks are you thinking, letting me look like this....

      If it weren't for the aphids, I think that they would actually be full and thick with many gourds to work with...

     Alas, I still have the one beautiful Bird House Gourd ....

                


             A Very Old plant that keeps on KICKIN'

   
           I planted this vine during the begining of summer, and I thought then it wouldn't survive,
    But SURPRISE!!!
       

    Look at it....
                        Summer Squash that never wanted to do anything, it even looks like it has something wrong with it. It is very pale and silvery, and nothing would come from the hundereds of flowers it bloomed to try and attract insectes to make summer squash babies...

       Then, I step out side to take some snap shots and see what was going on in Tangent, 

Lo and Behold and look what I see....  

                                         Isn't it the craziest thing, A squash... It's like the little engine that could...

 

Green Bean Crazy!!!

 

   I did say, I had an incredible first havest the other day, I made a wonderful dish with dinner...

 

           
       The crop is still going,  and I will be going out to collect more beans and maybe I will make a salad with them next...

                      Aren't they gorgeous? NO APHIDS hahahaha! (yet!)


      


             REMEMBER the VIEW!!!????


   So, I was panning through the pictures and I found this one...
     
 Just before the BHG's  started off, 

                            The view of a morning in a very warm Tangent Garden...

 

A recent view of a whithered Tangent Garden in a cooler evening...

    I am always amazed with before and after pictures....















      Have You Ever Seen Radish Flowers???

                  I have never thought that they could be so simply beautiful....





CARROTS

     My carrot patch is doing marvelously, but if you look closely, there is a tomato plant and basil, and a marigold flower growing in with them...

      I wonder though if the carrots well not do well because of the "intruders"!

I can't wait to see what the carrots look like...

      They should be purple and white and almost red like... Fun!!!  HUH???






             So, here is a picture that I thought was very calm and serene...



                                 I think you'll like it tooo!

Thy gracious defeat !!!!

 

     I have been wrapped up in so much stuff... I can't tell you how much...

    Well, Yes I can!!

My Crazy Garden Update...


                  Okay!  Aphids conquered.. 3 to 1!!

I lost my cucumbers to aphids, I lost my pumpkins to them, and NOW, my scalloped squash...

pumpkin aphids

scallop squash aphids

 Oh, But I have plans for those little buggers... Just wait and see Aphids... Just wait!!!


 GREEN BEANS

     But I got my first harvest of green beans!!! Hooraay!!!

 
      I cleaned these yummies up blanched them for two minutes, sauted them in bacon grease, onions - then sprinkled white vinegar and summer savory! delish...

   Take a look at my front garden

solar fire tomatoes (I even have one in there)

black krim tomatoes

 Peanut!!!

Welcome Home!!
   Last Saturday we decided to find Piglet a new friend.. Piglet, was in such a depression, that it was a must.. She didn't eat much, or play, and slept way to much for Piglets personality... So the decision was made,

       I would like for you to meet Peanut!
 

     As of right now she is 5 months old, "the pound" said that she was around a year old, well they were way off... but to give credit, they do get hundreds of animals,  it would be kind of hard to keep accurate records consistently..
    We took her to the vet, she has a cold, or respiratory infection... So she is on meds.. Trying to get her to feel better...

    Piglet is way to anxious to have her new friend  play, but, she sees Peanut, then "freaks" and  hisses and acts all silly.. go figure..

    They will become fast friends soon.

WEATHER!!!
    
      I can't believe that it is finally cooling off! We will be in the 90's over Halloween... Then through next week "they" are saying that it will be in the 80's... Is this True?, Are we going to have "spring like" weather in the fall???  AAAhhh... ha ha ha... Mother Nature isn't that confused... But it would be nice to have some decent weather, because before we know it, it will be at  first frost soon...

     It even rained a couple of times during the evening, of course when we can't see it, because it was in the evening!
I know the garden loved though! It responded very positively, pictures to show you coming...

Yea!!!!


Jalapenos
         
     My Jalapeños are still ok, so far anyways, I thought for sure when it fell over I lost it! It was the craziest thing too, after the caterpillar attack, as I was watering, I rinsed off the leaves and checked over the plant, It just fell over like it was melting, I managed to lift it back up and tie it to the lattice that was behind it. It looks fine, so far! (fingers crossed!)

 My Birdhouse Gourds ...

     Well that too is on the aphid attack, (those buggers, (the only nice thing to say without cussing))...

    One Gourd...

     Ho-hum, at least I get one though... I can play and practice on this one, so when the next time comes around I can have plenty to be occupied with...