Sequee... Ya poor dear. I feel for ya, but so glad to find out that I not alone with having days like yours. It enough to make ya cry at the time, but years down the road it wil be a great story that ya wil be laughing over.
Glad ya had such a beatiful flower to at least brighten your day up. : )
Bad day in the Garden!
that's a black swallowtail caterpiller
Hineni, you should be able to tell by the smell/taste :)
Sequee, what kind of fennel? Did you grow the "eating" kind, or the flowering kind? I've been reading so much about fennel in the last few days that I had to buy some yesterday, and it'll be dinner tonight.
Mine are so small right now, it may be a while before I can smell 'em. Of course, I do have to weed that area so....I think mine is dill, although one of the tags did say Fennel. I had a fennel plant when I lived in downtown Atlanta - it was always covered. And this one here flowered yellow, and I don't recall the fennel being yellow, I thought it was white...but that was a few years ago.
Depends on the type of fennel, I think. I got pictures of fennel that grows wild in TN, and it's flowers are very much yellow. But, aren't dill flowers yellow, too? Can't remember.
I thought all fennel was the eatin' kind! I grew Bronze Fennel.
BTW, the Brandywine branch that I "fixed" with scotch tape seems to have mended itself and is looking stronger every day.
Sequee, does the Bronze form bulbs? The blurb I read didn't indicate it, but I may be wrong. Wouldn't be the 4357th time....
I have seeds for "Green Ruffles" (or something like that) coming, I'll read the package when they get here.
Maybe I need to google again ....
Woohoo on the good news re: the Brandywine Sequee! Brigidlily does squash surgery, and now you're an EMT for tomatoes :0
I've resuscitated more than a few breaks in stems, but never on the limbs before. The first couple of days it looked so wimpy I almost yanked it off. But w/ my "gentle touch" of late, I was afraid I'd rip the plant out!!!
The bean sections I stuck in dirt bit the dust. RIP little troupers!
They're baaaaack! The bean section looks like h***, but is producing beans galore - YEAH!
This just in...
Yum, is that a melon upper left? Your cukes look like mine.......when I first see them say to myself "will get it later" then later it is 12" long. Same thing happens with the squash and don't even want to mention the okra. Already frozen 13 qts pole beans, 8 qts purple hull peas. Now, can't wait for the Silver Queen corn.
Not positive, but it was ID'd on the veggie forum as on oriental vegetable, commonly known as a "hairy squash/hairy cucumber - sweet and mild". Cut into it expeciting it to be a sauteeing veg, but NOT!!! Definitely a cuke!
These guys are a bit past their prime, but still yummy.
Believe it or not, that cucumber to the right is perfect!
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I hear ya about the...'I'll get it tomorrow (which turns into 2-3 days) and by then whatever I was planning on picking is now HUGE. Plus, I still don't know the identity of half the squash-type plants that are growing here.
Sequee, that harvest looks mouth-watering. I'm still eating my way through the squashes and cabbages from the neighbors...LOL! I received a few cukes this week too - looks like an attempt at dill pickles is due, since I tackled bread&butter pickles and they turned out okay :)
I've never really grown enough cukes to "worry" about pickles, but this just might be the year!