Hi Bloomers! 🪻
Happy harvest season and also, fall planting! The time of year when we’re usually rolling in the fruits of our labour from the early summer months and getting ready to plant our perennials or seeds that need a cold start!
We’ve been especially lucky for having our first year of gardening in our new home produce as much of a harvest as we have this season! We can’t keep up with the tomatoes, cucumbers or green peppers were producing! I think it’ll be time for another batch of salsa soon🌶.
These beautiful harvests all led to a number of family dinners, salads, sandwiches, large batch of salsa (of course we gave the first can to our favorite realtor 🥰) and honestly a lot of joy in our house.
If anybody has any delicious cucumber recipes to share, please do! We can’t give them away faster than we’re growing them these days! 🥒
Along with our harvesting we decided to make some changes to the front garden areas of our yard. Though hostas have their place in the garden and plant world, I was eager to add more color to the front and possibly some flowers I could cut to bring inside and share with friends.
With that in mind, we bit off way more than we could chew by attempting to remove roughly 40 hostas!🪴
We (Ben, myself and our friend Caroline) mowed down the old hostas, rented a tiller to get out roots that went down to what I’m sure was the earth’s core, google says 18 inches bur i swear it was deeper.
Once we had the hostas and what root systems we could bear to remove, we got to work on creating shape to the front beds and giving them defined sides.
Let me tell you, when we realized the amount of work we had taken on, we knew it was far too late to back out, and really hoping the the payoff would be worth it come next spring!
Now was the time, the beds were prepped, our bulbs and seeds had arrived, our backs had rested from the prepping… the time for fall planting was now!
we ordered several varieties of tulip bulbs, bumble bee mixes and perennial flower seeds from Vesey’s Canada and they needed to to into their new homes!
The time it took to place all of these seeds and bulbs, the joy we once had, was long gone come the last of the 980 bulbs 🫠.
After all of this hard work over the past 4 to 5 weeks, it feels difficult to accept that we may not see any results, and the ones we will see, won’t come until at least the spring.
Talk about teaching a girl to be patient..
Now is our time to take a break, enjoy the items we have canned, froze and baked from the season and look forward to planning (and expanding) next years gardens!
Wishing you all a fantastic fall and a hearty end of season harvest!
Catch yah’ layer buds!
Alla Blooms 🪻