Potato Harvest Smashed Potatoes

Don dug a bunch of potatoes this week so we made a feast of smashed potatoes with rosemary for a family brunch.  Delicious! 

Autumn Flowers

Autumn crocuses

Perennial sunflowers

Rudbeckia and nasturtiums

Rudbeckia, nasturtiums, and cosmos

A Fall Crop of Broccoli

We've got several large pots on the patio filled with individual broccoli plants.  This is the first to starting heading up for a fall harvest! 

Autumn Fruits

Today's Harvest: Italian plums and a really large Rescue pear

Mid-September Gardens

Still lots of lovely growth this month!

The scarlet runner beans extended tipi is about 10 feet tall now.

Sunshine in the Summer Gardens

Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) in front of the vegetable beds

Divina butterhead lettuce and Umpqua broccoli seedlings

Sorrell, savoy cabbage, red cabbages, and fall spinach

Onions, leeks, and pole beans

Cosmos in the carrot beds

A new planting of carrots and onions for fall

Square foot garden bed with new carrots, beets, spinach, and cherry tomatoes

Black-eyed Susans , nasturtiums, and vegetables in all their glory

The full view

Volunteer Sunflowers

This is one glorious cluster of volunteer sunflowers that self-seeded from prior years.

7 Peaches and 35 Plums!

The harvest continues!