This week’s TGP highlights include this Black and Blue Salvia from Garden Grumbles that has totally given me plant lust. It wintered over well and is big, but what I love is the bright green leaf contrasted with the blue flower. I will be looking for this plant for sure!
My dahlias have just started blooming for me and I was surprised to discover on Barb’s Handbook of Nature Study blog that it is part of the aster family. Who knew?
A number of people linked up articles about fall gardens. Michelle at Simplify, Live, Love is preparing a part of her garden for fall planting and included a number of links with more information.
My fall carrot planting didn’t take off, but I do have kale, cauliflower, broccoli and winter lettuce that are doing well.
However, I don’t have anything on Holly at Tasty Travels – she’s got a lot going on for the fall, and all of it she started herself! You go girl!
What are you harvesting, and how are you preserving the harvest?
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Love the contrast of the dark leaves and the salvia. Beautiful dahlias! Congrats on growing your own food.
Thanks for featuring my post!! I’m excited about my fall garden. Can’t wait to see how it grows. This week, I linked up some reflections on successes and failures so far in my garden. I’m already thinking about how to improve for next year.
It’s fun to reflect. Have a great week!
Thanks for hostessing. I love the color combinations in the salvia. They are outstanding. My harvest is minimal since most of my yard is flowers. But we had lots of strawberries, many of which got frozen. My blueberries are so new that we ate as we went along. The tomatoes now are a different story. I have a bumper crop in grow bags and they are just beginning to ripen. We will be roasting what we don’t eat with onions, garlic and olive oil and freezing those for the winter.
Yael from Home Garden Diggers
Hello Jami: Thank you for hosting another great garden party today–I appreciate it! I love the features this week; they are all really lovely. I am starting to harvest the fall raspberries, blackberries are still going, cukes are just starting, zucchini, lettuce and the tomatoes are ready to pick—it is a great time out in the garden now! I made zucchini noodles, which are just a zucchini that I peel over and over with a vegetable peeler and then quickly sautee, and had it with two different sauces for dinner last night-yum! Also got a deal on apricots, and made sugar-free apricot-orange preserves out of them–that went into the freezer. Enjoy your week!
I agree – this is the time we veg. gardeners look forward to: harvesting, making great meals ( zucchini noodles? Yum!), and putting up. Envious of your fall raspberries,though – ours all died and after enjoying them for four years I’m feelin’ the deficit.
Oh how funny. My Black and Blue just started blooming as well. I’m linking it up this week.