Garden Update 7 (8.29.19) Loads of peppers, flowers and corn!

[@SteffonisAnubis]

Your sunflowers are amazing.

[@lorettahenderson8979]

Lovely garden!🌻

[@lillianstewart6275]

Looks great Erica.. I love your plants. 😊

[@EricaDHouseMA]

Thank you! It’s been a fun first year.

[@linmac9697]

Love your garden, I like to make pepper jelly every year!

[@EricaDHouseMA]

My husband bought some strawberry jalapeño jelly from a farmers market this summer and it was so good!

[@chariprice]

You have a nice little garden! I haven't filmed mine this year because I can't keep up with the weeding and it looks horrible. We have had awful heat this summer in OK and I just don't want to be out in it ;-) Love your white pumpkin! The seeds I planted in my raised beds never really took off (probably because I never got around to mulching and fertilizing--again that heat!). However, we had a few seeds from our jackolanterns we carved on our front porch last October that fell into the flower bed, survived the winter and took off this spring. One plant has grown so big and we have 8 pumpkins on it so far! It is so ironic! They are small pumpkins though :-( At least I will have several to decorate indoors this year. You mentioned that one tomato on the fence line was diseased and not doing well. I am not an expert, but it nearly looks like all of those tomatoes along that fence line are suffering from a bit of herbicide drift. Any chance your neighbor behind you sprays roundup or something on his side of the fence?

[@EricaDHouseMA]

It’s funny I posted a pic of my tomatoes in my local gardening group and someone else suggested the same - neighbor using pesticides. My neighbor on that side does use pesticides out front but he’s got a big veggie garden in the back too so I assumed he wouldn’t spray back there.

[@olgaromero5987]

That's a Cosmo flower, we had them take over our garden, looks like a forest of Cosmos. Our Veggies did not do well, potatoes and carrots, we are wait to see if we get zucchini. Not a good year for us.

[@EricaDHouseMA]

Thanks for letting me know what it is! My potato’s failed big time. Definitely want to try them again next year.