#gardening

This is what resiliency looks like and what hope feels like. Head up, heart strong. 

Such a gift to be able to harvest tomatoes and pick sunflowers from our property still this summer. 

So happy to see these sunflowers. 

A ripening pumpkin from another volunteer plant. 

Volunteer sunflowers that are twice as tall as I am in Opa’s garden beds.

Backyard summer treats!

First ripe raspberries at my parents’ house.

Wild turkeys making themselves at home. 

A pumpkin plant on the property that already has vines several feet long and a pretty good sized pumpkin growing on it. (It amazes me that these are all growing without any water, other than what they are getting naturally through the ground or dew in the mornings.) 

We found a little frog while working! 

One of the many tomato plants that’s popped up around the property on its own that even has tomatoes growing on it! 

pragmaculture:

The courgettes were my big failure this season. I grew a mixed variety from seed, started them early, planted them in the ground with lots of worm castings and other goodness, then… nothing. They just stopped growing. It’s probably just from not enough water: this past summer has been ridiculously dry. We’ve had two, maybe three pathetic little ones, but that’s it! From like, eight plants! Ah well, next year I’ll try planting them somewhere else and hope for the best.

pragmaculture:

Hullo broad bean baby! We had a beautifully warm autumn afternoon yesterday, and they all popped up in the space of a few hours like magic!
(also, look at my sexy soil)