Posted in Flowers, gardening, Insects, Luffa, Nature, tagged coneflower, deer, echinacea, fall, gardening, gone to seed, Luffa, luffa drying, painted lady butterfly, wildlife on October 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What a nice, long wonderful weekend down south with family and friends – it’s so hard to leave and come back up north to the old routine life. The Luffa is starting to dry on the vine …
2 luffa on vines
Luffa half dried
The Coneflower (Enchinacea) has gone to seed also –
At first I thought this was some type of moth, but after I googled it, I found it to be a Painted Lady Butterfly – quite common. We visited the State Park nearby and captured a deer roaming the trails …
Posted in Crafts, gardening, preserving, tagged autumn sedum joy, bushel gourd, canned jalapeno peppers, fall, Food, gardening, oatmeal cookies, pumpkin, red mini peppers on September 24, 2008| 1 Comment »
All week I have been out trying to clean up the gardens and yard and DANG those mosquitoes are obnoxious!! Seems they are all out for their last meal and find those exact spots to bite that will annoy me for days … Ugh! So I did spend some time in the kitchen canning up some Jalapeno peppers and making some Oatmeal cookies ……
How’s that for a Combo – spicy and hot and sweet and chewy !! I did grow some Red Mini Peppers again this year and I think they are cute being so tiny, but I am not sure they are worth the space. Right now I am undecided if they grow again next year.
I bought a smaller pumpkin this year (who knows I may still buy more) AND this bushel gourd … the dude is Huge and heavy! I plan to create a bowl or something when he dries but that may take a year from what I read. I do have my mini gourds to practice on – no idea when they will dry and be ready to craft on. The creation behind the gourd is just a vase of corn stalks and grass for decoration – nothing attached to the gourd.
The Autumn Sedum Joy is looking Great!
Posted in Crafts, Dried Flowers, garden crafts, gardening, Tomato, tagged anise hyssop, blue corn, Crafts, fall, gardening, gourds, marigold, saving seed, tomato seed, zinnia on September 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Happy Fall ya’ll … the summer was wonderful, hot and rainy and then cool and dry – never predictable, but always Summer! Now Fall is upon us and what will it bring? Beautiful colors I am sure and fun material to craft with ..
Although I wasn’t very successful with gourds this year, I will be dedicating a whole field down south to them next year. I also have a few new gourd books on order and plan to do some fun crafting with them. I did pick up some miniature gourds to practice on –
I am organizing my seed saving and will be making some gifts of seeds along with a dried version of the flower for the holidays!
Anise Hyssop
Marigold seed
Zinnia seed
Deb's Gardens 