Around The Yard | Mid-Late Summer

It is wonderful to have all these pretty flowers in our yards to appreciate and bring inside with us. The veggies are always a little harder to care for and watch over til they are ready for picking. We aren't having the greatest luck with our corn and onions which are usually are biggest part of gardening. We do have tons of tomatoes and zucchini though. I'm glad you got to enjoy some of your harvest though. What a great weekend for you enjoying all this beauty and light. Happy Monday.

Hi Ali, perhaps it's downy mildew on your sugar snaps? Im from Australia but had the same thing happen to me in our Summer. You can fix it by spraying the plant with milk, as strange as that sounds! You may need to spray a few times to clear it up, but it worked for me so I hope it helps you too! :)

Hi Ali,again beautiful pictures. I have to agree there is nothing that give you an instant perk up like a flower. They are always just a wonderous surprise-like a little kiss from Mother Nature!

Thank you so much for sharing w/us. Those pictures just give off a sense of calm and just makes you happy. This weekend my family & I headed upstate which made for the kids to see things that they normally wouldn't such as cows,horses and LOADS of land. It was so good for them and me as well. Glad I had my camera to capture those moments.

Hi Ali, Love the luscious colors these flowers bring in the light. Glad to see you are enjoying the hard work a garden brings, I love fresh beautiful flowers. Hopefully next year you will have better luck with the vegetables.

I had to laugh when I saw your single grape tomato. I've only had two ripe grape tomatoes so far, picked on the same day last week, and I also took a picture of them - on a paper doily from my scrap stash no less, hahaha. My sister thinks I'm crazy.

Beautiful flowers. Just so pretty. Very very dry here in Michigan this year. Got some recently, I think that actually saved our farmers crops around here. Thanks for sharing, what a wonderful pick me up for a Monday morning!!!!

Gorgeous flowers, Ali. I am so jealous, as my usual are not to be this year in Kansas. The heat and drought have just about killed everything, despite daily watering. I generally takes lots of flower pictures in the summer, but neither humans (me) nor flowers like triple digit temperatures!

Hi Ali, so much lightness of being on your blog at the moment. Love it through all it's seasons!

ONE grape tomato???? We had - it had to be thousands! I've been giving them away by the gallon Ziplock bag full!! I will say we seem to get them by the 55-gallon drum full every other year - next year will probably net me only a few...
Good luck with your garden -

Our wisteria bloomed for the first time this year; we've had it six years. And, like yours, we're getting a second blooming on it. It's pretty much taken over the wrought iron arch entrance to our garden. Our dahlias are starting to bloom as well. Vegetables? Not so much, though the Yukon Gold potatoes are producing splendidly and only one wormy apple on the tree. DH is very disappointed.

L*O*V*E your garden!
my girlfriend does a cutting garden every year that is to die for...

It looks beautiful. Gardening is good for the soul.

My carrots took FOREVER, so be patient! They will be worth the wait! I'm thinking about a cutting garden next year too. I had some nice zinnias this year that I enjoyed, but it would be really nice to have a variety that would look nice together in a vase.

The white powder is probably powdery mildew. It means you don't have enough ventilation around the peas (better job of trellising needed) or not enough sunshine (they really want full sun). Also can be caused by too much nitrogen (they are a legume and don't need any supplemental nitrogen, the first number in any N-P-K analysis on your fertilizer) and by not enough calcium and potassium in the soil. Good sources for calcium are oyster shell lime and for potassium greensand or sulphate of potash. For cures, either a fungicidal soap or wettable sulfur would be OK to use and wait a few days to harvest again. I love cutting flowers also. I want to plant more dahlias too. TFS
Aloha, Kate

Gorgeous photos :-)

Exquisitely beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

pretty pics!! yummy veggies too

I love cut flowers in my garden too Ali & dahlias were my Dads favourite...alas, My garden would never be complete without feasts & feasts of beet greens! Happy Day & thanks for sharing :o)

Love your pics. I love gardening but with 105 degrees and 95% humidity outside, this will not happen until late fall or next spring :( bummer