I'll ask a j. clone to change this to The Fall Garden rather start another thread just because a page turned on the calendar.

Planted close to ten flats of pansies and violas this weekend, all in pots.

Bobert, I dug three wheelbarrow loads of violets out of my front garden beds this afternoon. I suspect I broadcast a lot of seed in the process. The seed isn't ripe yet tho' so maybe I did some good. I had let the violets go for a couple of years to see if they work as a ground cover--which they do---, but they crowd everything else out with their big clumpy roots and underground seed pods. (Just like everything I've ever read and everyone I've ever asked had told me they would. Imagine that.)

I would really like to lift and replant one large bed this fall, and where I live fall is the best time to divide and transplant most perennials. But it ain't likely to happen this year. I'd have to give up the Getaway to even get started on it, and I ain't about to do that!

Got lettuce reseeded after the first sowing rotted from too much rain.
The kale is of harvestable size now. I need to get crimson clover planted in the dormant veggie beds pretty soon.

The dahlias are absolutely breathtaking---so beautiful they hurt. The colors are particularly intense early and late in the day, in the clear fall sunlight. Soul food.

My son learned a lovely grace in pre-school that says it all, for me.

Earth who gives to us this food.
Sun who makes it ripe and good.
Dear Earth, Dear Sun
By you we live.
Our loving thanks to you we give.

Blessings on our meal.

Just received notice that the bulbs I ordered have been shipped. Glad they sent the e-mail, because I had forgotten that I had ordered them :0)

Janie