tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post7713542299959999814..comments2024-03-28T02:24:12.428-07:00Comments on Oh, True Apothecary! : Contemplating FallUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-77875571616119958152010-09-30T11:44:23.254-07:002010-09-30T11:44:23.254-07:00WLA mostly. Very reliable source. Lovely oils. Top...WLA mostly. Very reliable source. Lovely oils. Top drawer.Justine Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16224192086918363871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-1498100465726552922010-09-30T11:18:18.930-07:002010-09-30T11:18:18.930-07:00I am sure there is a lot of thigns to do... I am b...I am sure there is a lot of thigns to do... I am busy with my new job and my perfumes will wait and wait... <br /><br />Where do you get your supplies?Bellatrixhttp://be-bellatrix.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-85615478369854888752010-09-30T06:51:26.329-07:002010-09-30T06:51:26.329-07:00My garden loves the heat, fortunately. Me? Not so ...My garden loves the heat, fortunately. Me? Not so much :)<br /><br />Oddly, the opposite happened in my garden. I used nearly all heirloom tomatoes in the garden and though they produced baby head sized tomatoes, they were few and far between. The romas, on the other hand, went gangbusters. My squash also went gangbusters -- we had patty pans and butternuts to pluck every single day for weeks on end. Who can eat that much squash? And the crap part about it was I had shared a flat of the squash seedlings with neighbors and family so they could grow their own, which meant there was nobody to give the overcrop of squash to! Made a lot of squash based sauces . . .<br /><br />I love beans. <br /><br />I haven't planted okra yet. Maybe next season. Okra reminds me of living in Texas, visiting the step-granmother who always kept a garden, and watching her deftly snip off a rattlesnakes' head with a pair of garden scissors, not missing a beat as she harvested the okra. For me, okra means snakes. Weird associations, I know.Justine Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16224192086918363871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-89696531452970166672010-09-29T20:12:39.813-07:002010-09-29T20:12:39.813-07:00That post-summer heat wave gardening is something ...That post-summer heat wave gardening is something else, isn't it? On the positive side, the corn I planted really late stands a chance. On another positive side, I'll get good development of the seed heads on my sorghum, and the tomatoes are continuing to kick.<br /><br />But man, the squashes were a bust this year. I only got good cucurbita action from the volunteers. A jarrahdale that was probably 'planted' by a chicken who feasted on seeds, last year, and then a couple Hallowe'en pumpkins which were planted the same way.<br /><br />I only kept watering the squash vines, cutting away the withered ones, to keep the orchard bees happy. For all their happy pollinating though, it is odd to not have many squashes develop at all.<br /><br />Something you'll like, that I plan to send you seeds for, is Chinese long beans. I have a red variety, and as the name implies, they're long. Like thick thick noodles, and boy are they prolific if you plant say six of them. I got one crop out of mine until the aphids returned in between generations of ladybugs. I really liked these in stirfries, and even added to pasta sauce. <br /><br />Do you groove with okra? I got great results with that, too. It lurves the heat.sarahttp://lobeliarama.comnoreply@blogger.com