All the hibiscus are blooming. A few raspberries and green beans are still trickling in. The cucumbers are taking over with a vengeance. Once again, my squash succumbed to mildew and I wish I had planted more potatoes.
The sourdough starter I made last week was ready to use Monday and I baked its first loaf of bread yesterday. I stuck with the recipe from, My Sister’s Kitchen. It never does me wrong.
Beautiful flowers and bounty 🙂 Those tatties look good!
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Thanks, Val! Garden potatoes are so creamy:)
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Gorgeous and yummy post. 🙂
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Thanks, Judy!!
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I’ve been picking a half a pint of raspberries every day for a couple of weeks. They are close to the end, but I’m loving every one. And, this winter when I pull some out of the freezer it will be with a big smile. My squash are in bad shape too, and my cucumbers are covering the counter. Summer is a good season. Love your Hibiscus. 🙂
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Thanks, Judy. I love garden berries filling the freezer and having them all winter long! Hopefully, this winter will be better than our last, lol
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Gorgeous hibiscus. I’m going to check that recipe for sourdough starter!!
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Good luck if you try it. Use rye flour for the starter, it makes a big difference:)
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What kind of potatoes are those? They look great! The deer are eating our bean plants… oh well, it’s always something isn’t it 🙂
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I can’t remember what kind of potatoes …..I always go for the red and my friend at Agway orders me the untreated, organic ones. I didn’t know deer liked green beans. That stinks! They ate lots of my cabbage and all of my radicchio. Grrrr
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haha. Not much anyone can do about deer. We have some great golden delicious apples and the deer basically sleep under the tree in the fall… too bad too, since the apples are good and we’d like to eat some too.
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Hi Cynthia,
Hibiscus are such show stoppers, aren’t they? How do you store your potatoes over winter, Cynthia?
The homegrown kind are so much better than the store potatoes. I used to live across from a field of potatoes and I can tell you that we should put rubber gloves on to peel store potatoes. The farmer put up skull and cross bones signs telling people to not enter the field because of the poison used to kill the leaves before they harvest. What the heck is it? Agent Orange? Scary. I like to think of your world where you keep everything natural and healthy. Of course, I have no idea of what you look like, but in my mind you have a bib apron on (I have five.) and you are shelling peas still warm from the garden.
Ginene
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Lol, Ginene! I keep a bib apron hanging on my pantry door. That is so gross about the potatoes. Scary too! Mine are curing now, still dirty and all spread out in a dark spot in the basement. I’ll move them into baskets lined with sack cloth towels and they go under a bench where light won’t get at them, in my pantry .
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Thank you, Cynthia. I’ve always wondered.
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I wish every year I’d planted more potatoes! Marrying Polish does that.
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The Polish people have the right idea! Potatoes are the best!
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‘Gosh, she must have a wonderful garden’, said our Head Gardener as I showed her these great pictures. I’d have been very happy with that bee, and we thought the spuds looked marvellous.
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Thanks to you , Derrick and your Head Gardener… I do admire her so much!
As for the bee picture, I was happy with it but… You are the Man when it comes to photos… Your poppy and bumblebee picture is a masterpiece
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The Hibiscus are really beautiful. So many yummy things, I love having veg that is home grown 🙂
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I do too, Sharon! Which reminds me, we call Hibiscus ‘Rose of Sharon’ here.
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That’s interesting, we have a yellow flowering bush we call ‘Rose of Sharon’!
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Maybe it’s a hibiscus?
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yes, I think I need to do a bit of research 🙂
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We call it Rose of Sharon as well. When I was little I thought it was “Rows of Sharon” because people plant many plants into a hedgerow. Then I read Steinbeck.
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How does he reference Rose of Sharon?
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Grapes of Wrath – the daughter’s name was Rose of Sharon. I read it and thought ” Oh it’s Rose, not Rows” one of those a-ha moments.
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I love the hibiscus flowers of high summer. You have some beautiful cultivars
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They self sow and mutate like crazy. I planted a white and 3 pinks 14 years ago. Now they’ve multiplied to over 40 trees … Singles, doubles, purples, pinks and whites.
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Wow – that is good value 🙂
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Wonderful!
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It’s fun seeing what everybody has going on in their gardens, isn’t it? It’s wonderful for me to visit yours too!
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I’ll give you a hint on what to do with all of those potatoes. Can them! Scrub them up, cut them up and pressure can them with the skins on. They are awesome! And here’s my favorite recipe. After they are canned, drain the water, throw them in a gallon ziploc bag, add a package of dry onion soup mix, and some olive oil. Shake it up. Pour onto a cookie sheet and bake. Yum yum! “Healthy” fries 🙂
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Oh Cynthia, it all looks so lovely! your photos always make me happy! xo Johanna
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Yours make e happy too, Johanna. Especially the ones of your illustrations.
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Lovely post, Cynthia.
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Cynthia
Love the pictures , your photo’s make me smile.
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