One, it's not too late to significantly decrease the effect of the drought on your family: plant late -
summer and fall gardens.
Not exact matches
As I gear up to begin seeding for this year's
garden, I'm reminded of the simple — but incredible — power of the home
garden,
and that for a 3 or 4 month stretch in
summer -
fall, I buy very little at the grocery store, my food coming from my own little rectangle on this planet, or, for what I can't / don't grow, from the local farmers» markets.
My husband
and I have started our first year
garden of
summer vegetables after a not so bad first year of a
fall / winter veggies
garden.
After decades of
gardening it still amazes me when I take my collection of seed packets in February
and spread them out on the living room floor, realizing that in mere months, an entire
summer's
and fall's worth of food will spring from these seeds.
Root vegetables are hearty, delicious, filling
and perfect from
garden fresh
summer meals to warming
fall and winter sou...
Sometimes it feels like everyone goes on
and on about all of the amazing
summer vegetables that they're picking from their
gardens and when
fall gets here all of the colorful, flavorful
fall vegetables don't get nearly as much attention as they deserve.
Amaranth (Chinese Spinach) Artichokes Asparagus Asparagus Pea Beans Beets Bitter Melons
and Wax Gourds Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Burdock (Gobo) Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Chinese (Napa) Cabbage Citron Melon (For candied citron, pies, etc.) Cantaloupes
and Melons Cardoon Celery Chervil Chicory Chives Collards Corn
and Ornamental Corn Cover Crops Cowpeas Cucumbers Eggplant Endive Fava Beans Finocchio Garland Chrysanthemum Gourds
and Decorative Squash Jicama (Mexican Yam) Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce
and Mesclun Loofah (Luffa) Sponges Malabar Spinach Mache (Corn Salad) Micro Greens (Baby Greens) Minutina (Buckshorn Plaintain) Mustard
and Other Greens Oats (Hulless Oats for cereal) Okra Onions / Scallions Orach (Mountain Spinach) Ornamental Corn
and Grain Pak Choi / Bak Choi Parsley Peas: Early Spring Peanuts Peppers Super Hot Peppers Popcorn Pumpkins Quinoa (Cereal, Superfood) Radicchio Radish Ramps (Wild Leeks) Rhubarb Rice (Can be grown in
garden soil) Rutabaga Salsify (Oyster Plant) Saltwort Scorzonea Shallots (From Seed) Sorghum Soybeans Spinach Squash
Summer Type
and Zucchini Squash Winter Type Squash Japanese Kabocha Type Squash (
Fall and Winter Decorations) Strawberry Sugar Beets Swiss Chard Tomatoes Turnip Watermelon
The
summer and fall crops collide, our own
garden is heaving,
and it'll be that way for another month or so.
* My
garden (during the spring,
summer,
and fall.
The Learning
Garden is at its best during the late spring,
summer,
and fall months when program participants
and campers help us plant, maintain,
and harvest.
If you've ever stopped in for a visit during spring,
summer or
fall, you've most likely seen somebody out working to weed the
gardens or to pick the various herbs
and flowers that we use!
We have a lot to learn about
gardening, especially in this new climate, so we just showed up at the store picked out lots of seeds for tomatoes, onions, arugula,
and everything we'd like to put on pizzas
and salads all
summer long (
and into the
fall... Kate was passionate about buying pumpkin seeds.)
Full of blooming romance in the spring
and summer, richly gold
and orange come
fall and icily beautiful in the winter, the
gardens are a perfect date whatever the season.
Frequently described as one of the city's best hidden gems, Tulsa Botanic
Garden is a beautiful setting for a date any time of the year - think vibrant spring flowers,
summer picnics, gorgeous
fall foliage,
and crisp winter scenes.
With an allusion to the Biblical
Garden of Eden
and the many temptations that resulted in the
fall of the world's first happy couple, one gets the filling of trouble - in - paradise early on as their idyllic
summer abode is persistent encroached upon by snakes
and other slithering creatures, not the least of which is Harry, the manipulator,
and the forbidden fruit of the young woman he has in tow.
This is the rarefied environment in which Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name is set, a world in which beautiful
and / or flawlessly erudite people spend balmy
summer days
and nights,
fall in love, ponder on the vagaries of life, in
and around a stately Italian villa, while almost invisible domestics — at least, they're occasionally glimpsed, but have next to no dialogue — tend to their needs, cooking,
gardening, or presenting them with handsome, freshly caught fish.
Our big flower
garden needed sprucing up with
fall flowering plants, because the
summer flowers were dying off,
and the Buick Enclave was the best vehicle in the test fleet for the huge chrysanthemum buy at the local greenhouse.
In this book you will learn organic
and sustainable growing practices on a range of
gardening topics:
Garden bed preparations, soil life, spring
gardening,
summer gardening,
fall gardening, watering, composting, planting,
and more.
With hammocks, twinkling lights, games, floating barges, food, beer
gardens and a carnival - like atmosphere, it's a go - to spot in spring,
summer or
fall.
A couple of skaters, one of whom seems visibly uncomfortable because of the camera, chit chat regardless of one's elbow dripping blood after a
fall; a couple — a blondie with a
summer dress
and her nerdy yet fedora - equipped partner — make out in a car at a gas station; a group of African - Americans play dominos while smoking cigarettes in a
garden, with a few dollars on the table to spice the game up.
In a series of extended residencies at the Lynden Sculpture
Garden beginning in the
summer of 2013, Dan Torop made photographs on the grounds which integrate an historical text — Meriwether Lewis's June 14, 1805 diary entry describing a day
and night in the environs of the Great
Falls of the Missouri River — with present day visual explorations.
Selected Group Exhibitions — Invitational & Juried: 2010 «Best in Show» Taubman Art Museum, Roanoke, VA 2010 «11th Annual Juried Show» Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA 2010 «Bath County Art Show» Hot Springs, VA 2010 «Art with a Twist» Logan Gallery, Roanoke, VA 2010 «Paintings from Provence» Westlake Library, Moneta, VA 2010 «The Painted
Garden» Beach Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA 2010 «Best in Show» Taubman Art Museum, Roanoke, VA 2008 Westlake Library, Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, VA 2008 «Chica's Choice» North Gallery PVCC, Charlottesville, VA 2008 «Paint Lexington» Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA 2008 «Bath County Art Show» Hot Springs, VA 2008 «Academy of Fine Arts Juried Art Exhibition» Lynchburg, VA 2007 «Pictorial Strategies» Andrews Gallery, W&M Univ., Williamsburg, VA 2006 — 2007 «Facets of Perception» Zeuxis traveling exhibition 2005 «The Black & White Show» Nelson Fine Arts Gallery, Lexington, VA 2005 «Bath County Art Show» Warm Springs, VA (H.M) 2005 «Mountains
and Rivers» Warm Springs Galley, Warm Springs, VA 2005 «7 Views» Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA 2005 «Faces of the
Fallen» Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC 2005 «32nd Annual Juried Competition» Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 2004 «Within Our Borders - The Virginia Landscape» Hermitage Foundation, Norfolk, VA 2004 «Past, Present, Future» Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, VA 2004 «George Nick Selects» Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 2003 «Sense of Place» Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA 2003 «Bath County Art Show» Warm Springs, VA (Best in Show) 2003 «Light & Landscapes - Reflections of Italy» Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2002 «Art Educators of Virginia» Jefferson Center Gallery, Roanoke, VA 2002 «3rd Annual Juried Art Show» Nelson Fine Arts Gallery, Lexington, VA 2002 «Plein - air Revisited» W&M Andrews Gallery, Williamsburg, VA 2002 «Larger than Life» Jefferson Center Gallery, Roanoke, VA 2002 «Bath County Art Show» Warm Springs, VA (H.M) 2002 «The Mountain Lake Hotel Workshop Exhibit» Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, VA 2002 «The Mountain Lake Hotel Workshop Exhibit» Jefferson Center, Roanoke, VA 2002 «Open Studio Tour» Roanoke, VA 2002 «Roanoke City Art Show» Roanoke, VA 2002 «Lynchburg Area Juried Art Show» Lynchburg, VA 2002 Staunton Augusta Fine Art Center, Staunton, VA 2002 «Artemis - Winter Lights» Roanoke, VA 2002 «Artists & Their Studios» Jefferson Center, Roanoke, VA 2002 «Since September 11, 2001» Jefferson Center, Roanoke, VA 2001 «Lynchburg Area Juried Show» Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA 2001 «George Nick Selects» Concord Art Association, Concord, MA 2000 «Roanoke College Biennia», Roanoke College, Salem, VA 2000 «The
Summer Show» Gross McCleaf Gallery,, Philadelphia, PA 2000 «Jane Piper & Philadelphia Colorists» State Museum of Pa, Harrisburg, PA 2000 «Landscape in Virginia» Va..
With the ideal of a
garden as a year - round pleasure, it may be easy to delight in
summer, but gardeners may be less certain how to sustain interest
and color from
fall...
Closer to home, a clematis thriving in Wave Hill's Wild
Garden displays exquisite, pale purple, bell - shaped
and sweetly fragrant flowers as it blooms freely from
summer to
fall.
Summer keeps hanging on in most of the
garden, but
fall is making its first appearance with fruits
and berries,
fall - blooming bulbs
and the...
As the Curatorial Fellow in the Visual Arts Department, I have had the opportunity to enjoy the
gardens and gallery at Wave Hill during the changing seasons from
summer to
fall and now to winter (though of late it has felt much more like spring than the frigid temperatures we're used to).
In the late
summer I'm loooking for signs that our monsoon rains will arrive, in the
fall and spring I look for freezing temps that will affect my
garden, in the winter I'm seeing if I need to bring in wood for the stove,
and in early
summer, I'm keeping an eye on high temperatures
and winds that will dry out my trees
and garden quickly.
It remains to be seen how the
garden grows throughout the rest of the
summer and fall, but if it's this exciting when the plants are brand new, I can't imagine how thrilling it will be to harvest larger, fully ripened vegetables.
The other thing «that's next» for me is to learn how to can, freeze,
and preserve all the bounty from my husband's organic
garden this
summer and fall... so we can enjoy during the winter months next year.
In our Mississippi State trials, we gave them a light trimming in late
summer to have them at their peak performance for our annual October
Fall Flower
and Garden Fest.
Crocus
and Chrysanthemums — Hume says,
summer and fall flowering chrysanthemums will begin to bloom
and container grown plants can be planted directly into the
garden now.
My
summer garden is beginning to fade
and I am anxious to plant
fall colors
and get out my scarecrows.
Crazy loving the fact that it just looks so good outside now, especially since this Indian
summer seems to be lingering giving me lots of opportunities to sit outside
and enjoy my little
Fall garden table decoration.
What I love about
fall: My thoughts turn from
gardening to snuggling up in front of a warm crackling fire, a good book
and mug of hot chocolate piled high with whipped cream... When it's still 80 degrees
and it feels
and smells like
fall... The sound of the school bus ambling down our street on the first day of school stopping at the corner to pick the precious cargo of squealing kids... As I walk through our yard hearing the crunch of crackling leaves... Chunky winter sweaters - every September I buy a new one... Watching our resident squirrels scurrying around our yard gathering
and burying their winter stash... Replacing
summer flowers with purple
and white cabbages.
I
fell in love with this house in the
Summer 2009 publication of Better Homes
and Garden «Decorating» magazine.