Our Little Piece of Heaven

"YOU DON'T HAVE A GARDEN JUST FOR YOURSELF. YOU HAVE IT TO SHARE." Augusta Carter







Showing posts with label Daylily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daylily. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

SEEDS, SEEDS, AND MORE SEEDS!

Hello fellow gardening friends!  Yes, I am still around.  The month of August found me hustling around with work, the beginning of school, and both girls making the volleyball team, one in middle school and one in high school.  As you can image my weeks are very busy.  I found myself missing my blogging and decided to make time to get in touch with everyone again!   The first week in September has brought us much cooler temperatures here in Southern Indiana. as well as some rain showers!  Everything seems a bit refreshed!  I have been collecting up seeds and searching my garden for seedlings. 
Below, I found this seedling plant from one of my Crepe Myrtle bushes!  I was so excited, now to just baby it until I can move it to its own location!

 Four o'clocks are nice seeding plants!  The seeds are very easy to collect and grow easily when sown directly in the ground after danger of frost in the spring!
 I have also collected some seeds from a couple of my daylily plants!  I have placed these in the refrigerator in baggies to hopefully be succesful in planting either in pots this winter or in the ground this next Spring!  I have not tried this yet, so hopefully I have some luck!

To all my friends, I look forward to keeping my blog up and have enjoyed this little post very much!  It has reminded me of how much fun this blogging is! 

I am still in the process of planning my shade garden and thank you all for the great input on shade plants you have had luck with!  I have been looking at the Park Seed and Wayside Garden web sites for neat plants! 

The bunnies (Oreo and Daisy) are doing great and growing like weeds!  Hope to post some pictures of them soon!  They are certainly enjoying this cooler weather! 

Hope the cooler weather finds each and every one of your gardens! 
Happy Gardening!
Mindy

Monday, July 25, 2011

MY DAYLILES

Today I am joining Mary at http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/ for Mosaic Monday.  Check out her site to see all the beautiful and creative mosaics everyone is sharing.

These are some of my different daylilies!  Hope you enjoy!
Happy Gardening!
Mindy

Thursday, July 21, 2011

FERTILIZER FRIDAY/FLAUNT YOUR FLOWERS FRIDAY 07/22/11 EARLY!!!!!

Well my gardens here in Southern Indiana are really getting some heat thrown on them, our temperatures have been 95+ with a heat index above 100 degrees all week.  There is no relief until possibly Saturday.  Even though we have had such oppressive heat, I have still managed to find some blooms in my gardens. 

I am doing my "Flaunt your Flowers Friday" early because I have to work tomorrow and will probably be unable to do it, as I will be working about 11 hours or more!!  Hope it is O.K. to share my photos early!  Check out http://tootsietime.com/ and see whats blooming all around!

HAPPY GARDENING TO ALL!
 

Sunday, July 17, 2011

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GARDEN!

 
My "Hanging Tomato" system!

Today I wanted to share some exciting things I found in the garden!  I absolutely love vegetable gardening!  There is something very exciting about growing and caring for plants that in turn give you yummy food to eat! 

This is a picture of the "Hanging Tomato" system that my husband built for me.  We created this after many years of trying to keep our tomatoes staked up properly.  The only tricky part is that it is very important that they are waterered daily!


Here is a picture of one of the gardening systems that my husband has created for me.  This is an earlier picture so you can get an idea of what it looks like!  The plants are very grown up now and it is hard to see exactly what the system looks like!  I have a lot of fun with this!  As you can see I have a potting table in the center of the structure where I can work! 

Here is another earlier picture to give you an  idea of what it looks like!  This side has a raised bed on the ground, along with some container planting as well. 
I hope to add, this fall, one or two more raised beds next to this one with a walkway in between each!  I will have to fence in the area where I will plant my lettuce, as the bunnies love it way to much! 

I love it when the tomatoes begin to turn red!  They are so yummy!  We usually have to pick a few green ones early to make "Fried Green Tomatoes"
 In this picture I was able to get a green tomato, as well as red tomato hiding amongs the leaves!


In this container I have a "Tomatillo" plant, a "Yummy Bell" pepper plant, and the one closest in the picture is a "Mini Belle" pepper plant which I started from seed indoors back in April.  It is especially rewarding to start plants from a bag of seeds that was around $1.50.  I am very proud of this one, considering the entire bag of seeds cost $1.19 and I currently have five of these plants growing in my vegetable garden! 




 In this container I have: A regular "Jalapeno" plant.  A "TAM Jalapeno" plant (this is a mild Jalapeno that was created at Texas A & M University) It is very mild and delicious! Also planted here is a Bonnie "Bell Pepper" plant! 

This container system was all built by my husband.  It is all very nice because it is all within arms reach and very easy to take care of! 

In addition, the bunnies cannot get to the plants! 

To the left of the pepper container, in the white colored planter are some seeds that I planted of Wisteria!  I am not sure where I am going to put those yet, but will have to be deciding soon!









Of course my post would not be complete without at least one or two pictures of some of my flowers currently blooming
 
Pink Garden Phlox with Shasta Daisies
  
Triple Blooms on Hibiscus Plant

Pink Crepe Myrtle

Rose from my mini rose bush!

HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE LITTLE TOUR OF SOME OF MY GARDENS!  HAPPY GARDENING!
Mini Rosebud
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES!