Summertime and Fall Dahlia's

There are many more than the 64 varieties of Dahlia's that we are going to post from the previous summer time, I had hoped to do this months ago, but it has taken a lot of time to go through everything and make sure we are not doubling up. I am going to start by posting up photos of different strains of Dahlia's, once we get all the pictures online, I will go through and lable them with the appropriate tag. Here is the first small batch...

Garden 2023, edible flowers

2 types of nasturtiums, orange and yellow flowers. Thnik most of the time this year they were used in cold salads. Then you have the zucchini/squash blossomes that we ususally use a lot, stuffing and then frying and or steaming, we just didnt do to much with them this year. Lastly, there is the fennel. Haley uses a lot of fennel and dill for her butterflies and caterpillars, I get left the leftovers.

Garden 2023, Melons

Unfortunatly, this year again was a bust on raising watermelons. The space is to small and believe it or not watermelons/all melons, can more easily be over watered than under which is another reason for the poor quality.

Garden 2023, Cucumbers

for some reason it took years to figure out growing cucumbers was way way easier than we had thought. This year we bought a metal scaffolding for the garden and let the cucumbers grow and flower on it. 7 feet tall x 3 feet wide. See the first photo. Great things about doing cucumbers is that all you must do is water them daily and keep them from a lot of direct sunshine. 2 varieties, Kirbies and the regular longer salad cucumbers.