The pumpkin patch is beaming with life! I love to watch the pumpkins grow. One day there’s a little pumpkin the size of a golf ball, 2 days later it’s the size of a softball. I hope your pumpkins are doing great.
The Jack-Be-Little’s are turning orange already. How are your sunflowers?
My sunflowers are taller than me. My squash and cucumbers however died after fighting a good fight with beetles.
Nice pictures.
Sunshine in bloom. My sunflowers are an inspiration surviving drought, shallow soil and roots gripping tar and gravel. They live in the alley and often fall victim to trash trucks, novice in-line skaters and snuffling animals. I just tape them back together, tie them up, and there they are.
Looks great. I’m so jealous! All I have to show after this disastrous English ‘summer’ is 5 small green tomatoes, one tiny spinach plant and one leafy lemony-tasting thing I’m sure I didn’t plant. None of my pumpkins, squash, zucchini, etc survived the lack of sunshine or the monster slugs.
Same here, lots of growth and no fruit on anything outside, melons and cucumbers in green house did ok but toms tasteless and no aubergines set at all and no butternut squash, courgettes seem ok though.
your little farm is ablaze with late summer colour.. how wonderful, the heat knocked our gardens hard so i will just have to watch you harvest your beautiful pumpkins! c
Glad your garden is doing well. Mine was a disaster this summer. Only things that have done well for me are raspberries, peppers and beans.
You have beautiful plants.
What beautiful pictures. Great job. And great job with your garden as well. Thanks for sharing.
Great photos of what is in your garden! Thanks for sharing!
Your cheating! I like also to READ your blog as well as see your fabulous pictures.
Thanks for being here yesterday.
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Great pictures, lovely sunflowers, ours never really got going with all the rain we had in the UK. I don’t have pumkin but I do have courgettes and they are doing well now
Love the blossoms, the sunflowers! Oh, the bee. Have mercy! Let’s eat. Well, not the bee. 😉
We are sooo jealous! Love the sunflowers on how beautiful they are! We would probably have some pumpkins growing if it was not for the deer that keep eating them. We do however, have a handful of JBL’s growing nicely! Love the photographs Dan! 🙂
Texas heat killed our garden! Glad yours is doing so awesome!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful pictures. This is the second year we planted pumpkins in our yard. We have four right now (from only three seeds) and they are HUGE! Can’t wait to see what they’ll look like in October.
I envy you the bees…no zucchini for us this year: no pollination, apparently!
Your pumpkins look wonderful, I took seeds from my daughter’s bought pumpkin last Halloween.Never tried them before. I have 5 plants at different stages, but one plant has a small fruit a bit bigger than a tennis ball right now, so I am hoping we will have at least one or two for this year.
We’ve planted three kinds this year–actually one planted itself and we let it. It is a standard carving pumpkin. To that we’ve added one of those little sugar sweet pie varieties and a standard french princess type pumpkin. All are doing well.
My sunflowers are doing great, can’t say the same for pumpkins, squashes or courgettes though. Too much rain when flowers are out, means no pollinators and no fruit.
I almlost feel sorry for that poor bee so laden (and covered) in pollin. Great photo.
My pumpkin and sunflowers are non existent 😦 because it’s mid winter here in Sydney. Sunflower seeds go in the ground in September. Squash, sometime after that as I plan to plant them around my sweet corn when that’s a couple of inches hight. The corn also goes in the ground in September.
I console myself in the knowledge that I’ll be gloating 6 months from now when you’re in winter and my summer garden is going gangbusters. Plus I have my peas, kale, spinach, lettuce… to keep me going in my winter crop.
Great pics! It really is crazy how fast a garden grows!
My single volunteer pumpkin is giving me great joy!
Looks like some good eatin there! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! I love the bee.
Our sunflowers struggled this year. One would start to open then die off. It was depressing. Mums just started to come out. We planted three mum plants and were excited to see them doing well, until the deer began eating them!
Maybe someday we’ll do pumpkins! I’d love a proper pumpkin patch one of these days. We planted a slew of sunflower seeds along the side of our house, and they grew so beautifully I can’t wait to do them again. Plus, the gold finches and honey bees LOVE them.
One plant that I was never successful in growing was a pumpkin. One day, one day……..
Gorgeous plants. My mouth is watering as I think of those pumpkins and what delicious pies they would make. 🙂 Hugs
Wonderful pictures – I am jealous!
Beautiful photos! I’ve never grown pumpkins, as I don’t have kids and am not a fan of the pie, but yours look awesome.
Awesome effort mate. Seem to be growing beautifully. From a jealous Australian who can’t grow pumpkins for another few months!
What a happy bumble, all covered in pollen! I need to go check on my mystery squash to see what sort of bees are in them.
My sunflowers are doing great. The goldfinches come to snack on a regular basis.
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The bees aren’t the only insect enjoying your squash blossoms. I spy striped cucumber beetles in there as well. The bees and beetles seem to bunk together in ours; I always find them nestled deep inside first thing in the morning.
Such wholesome photos!
Just looking at your pictures can make this city girl feel better.
Beautiful!
My sunflowers have died and gone to heaven. They bloomed early this year.
Great photos. I planted pumpkins for the first time this year, but wasn’t thinking! I had pumpkins in early July…I didn’t really want them then, but they were fun! Next year I’ll wait just a little bit…fall would be more compatible with my thinking! Yours are beautiful…Debra
wooowwww… congrats with the glorious harvest!!! the pics are the feast for the eyes… enjoy!! :))
Your garden is glorious looking. Glad it’s fairing so well despite the nasty heat covering many states. Looks like you’re in for a great fall harvest!
Great photos! My sunflowers are doing great but my pumpkins just ok. The plants look great and are very healthy but I only have 2 pumpkins. Several little pumpkins that formed a few weeks back, turned brown and rotted away. 😦
I love seeing how your farm is doing and all of the fabulous photos! My plantings are so far behind yours due to lack of heat. Remember all of those beautiful cukes you showed us earlier in the summer? I have my first full size pickling cuke just this week! 🙂
It’s lovely to see what vegetable futures look like! We are just starting to tickle spring here on Serendipity Farm and start our first year as vegetable growers. I have been hurriedly scribbling down names of varieties of veggies and realised that they are probably not even available here in Australia (DUH!). Oh well… at least I can see the possiblities 🙂
Great garden pictures of the crops…and my sunflowers were terrible this year! I planted at least 10 different varieties, not even 1 giant head to dry for the birds! and I can’t find my pumpkins in the weeds….being honest!
Our pumpkins were a miserable fail this year. Again! We are going to try a new space next season. Don’t know what we are doing wrong. Your stuff looks great! Congrats!
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Just when I thought that this unusually dry summer had did everyone’s garden in…
Here in the Uk my butternut squash have failed to open a single flower, I fear it may be too late now
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