Garden - August 2020 - second half of August

 

The second half of August brings an abundance of flowers and tomatoes.

The zinnias are almost as tall as he is!  We have as many as 7 bouquets in the house.

The front yard zinnias are in front of three rows of tomatoes.

In the foreground, the orangey-yellow flowers are calendula.

We had planted a few there last year, and these have self-seeded.

We have found calendula in all the gardens in front, back and beside the house.

I assume the birds have helped with seeding.

In the previous garden blogpost, in the first half of August,

the dahlia cage picture shows the flowers above the chest-high wire.

Here, you can see that more support, in the form of string, needed to be added, and the flowers are above his head.

The brugmansia now dwarfs the gazing ball.

We expected zero flowers this first year, so it was a pleasant surprise when several plants bloomed.

This is the only red daylily blooming this year.  We have bought more for next year and have divided some of our larger clumps.  I think we are looking forward to 83 plants for 2021 if they survive the winter.

And the joy of August is tomatoes!  

We planted four kinds, and three are shown here:

Cherokee Purple

San Marzano (a paste tomato)

Azoychka (an orange, early tomato)

Time to get going making sauce.

This tomato weighs 26.27 ounces!

And we are getting our fill of fresh tomato sauce on buttered linguini with cheddar cheese.

The sauce is simply tomato chunks, minced fresh garlic, basil, parsley, olive oil.

We found some excellent black olives on Amazon, and they go well with this.

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In the dog-days of August, Tommy finds shade under the rhododendron.

To see other garden pics:

This page.

First half of August.

2nd half of July.

First half of July garden.

Garden at the End of June

And the first half of June is here.

You can see the end of May, 2020, here.

Here is the first week of May

Daffodils 2020

The middle of April is here.

First week of April.