garden | The Overall[s] Adventure

The end of summer is always crazy and I have been busier than I have every been — mostly covering for people on vacation but I also have a few big projects going on at work. It has also been crazy hot, so on my days off I am usually pretty worn out and if I wasn’t, it has generally been too hot to work in the yard.

Upside of that is that, assuming I can keep them watered, the tomatoes have been great this year. I was pretty bummed out that the plant that was suppose to be a stupice (my favorite slicing tomato) turned out to be a grape tomato. Oh well. Also, once again, the stripy roma keeps getting blossom rot — problem with under watering. But the green zebra, black krum, and yellow boy are awesome and super flavorful, although not very big — think golf ball.

Black krums and green zebras

Lemon boys. These made awesome sauce!

The full mix, from a different harvest than the other two pix. The yellow boys became the sauce to go with the zucchini, which was transformed into a kick-ass veggie lasagna.

Feverfew is one of my favorite flowers. It is a comfort flower for me — reminding me of my childhood. My mom always planted it on the northside of the Loveland house outside my bedroom window. It has a very distinct smell — some people think it is gross but I like it. Plus it is cute and cheerful. When I started planning my first real yard in Portland at the rex Hamilton I searched everywhere for starts or seeds and couldn’t find it anywhere. Finally Mom brought me some she had saved from the Loveland house. It didn’t take long for things to get out of control.

Then when I moved to this house I somehow managed not to bring any feverfew plants with me and I felt like I was in the same mess. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) because of its tendency to spread seed like crazy, some plants came up in one of my pots. And next thing I knew it was everywhere — which in my first year garden I didn’t mind. This year, things are starting to look a little more established and the feverfew started to go bananas! Coupled with the chamomile that came up from seed from a plant Kaitlyn had put in one of my pots I have little white flowers with yellow centers everywhere!