Patiently Awaiting Fall

Category: My first Gardening experiences | Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:41 pm

Well I'm about over summer. I'm patiently awaiting fall, see this is going to be my first fall actually growing things. Don't get me wrong I've had plants for years, but I wasn't any kind of gardener, I didn't know what plant was what. I just knew I liked plants and I half heartidly cared for them. My White Birds of Paradise is living proof of that era of my life. And last summer I was mainly veggies and annuals so after they let on I left my beds to just grow in. But this year I accumulated quite a collection of perinnials, biennials and evergreens.

So my annuals that are currently growing and not far from there life cycle are the Marigolds and Morning Glories. And I have 3 Mammoth sunflowers just starting to show petals, they are only about 3inches in height. I have 1 Shasta daisy sprout left and honestly I don't have high hopes for the lil guy, I haven't had much luck with the seeds, but I bought them late in the season so the weather hasn't been favorable. Same with the Astors which I have 3 sprouts that are looking pretty good and hope they bloom this fall. I just found a celosia in the daisy pot and its about 2 inches tall, must be a baby from the first celosia I had this spring cause its pink, my rescue rack celosia is orange and its not looking good already. The flower has faded a lot.

My Veggies and Herbs are still growing this season. I have 5 Romaine Lettuce plants just about a foot tall and just now starting to produce good size edible leaves. And I have 13 sproutlings. The Okra is still producing and probably has a good 5 weeks left in them. The oregano and mint are still doing great. The leeks are still growing but hasn't sprouted any new ones. The only hot pepper plant left is nice and full but the flowers just keep falling off and nothings coming of it. I have 2 new sprouts and hope to harvest some hot peppers this year. My 4 pineapple grew a lot over summer but still no fruit and this is the second summer for them. I also have 5 cherry tomato plants that are flowering, they are actually grown from seeds from a store bought plant that died over summer. When fall hits I'm still going to grow the veggies until they die off and hope to keep my herbs over until next spring. I'm hoping to start a crop of cold weather veggies, I'm just still undecided besides lettuce.

My perinnial, biennial and evergreen plants that I have currently growing are African Iris, Daylily, Angelonia, Coleus, Cuphea, Periwinkle, Sweet Williams, English Ivy, Kalanchoe, Butterfly Bush, and Columbine. I have done my research and its best to leave the foilage until it gets close to the end of winter. And then cut them back. I'm pretty sure that covers all of them except the Ivy. Ugh I think.... I gotta do a bit more research. I haven't seen half of these in full glory or bloom cause they are mostly off the rescue rack. So next spring is going to be so awesome. I can't wait to see the Iris and Daylily blooms.

I have some seeds thanks to a few wonderful Stewbies that id like to grow. Some from what I've read I will have to wait until next spring. But a couple I can probably grow this fall. And after the okra finishes I want to replace them with some Mums. This week I'm going to go pull all my fall/halloween rubbermaids and start decorating to get in the mood. I am patiently awaiting fall!

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