First tomatoes 2016

I have picked four tomatoes so far and they are so delicious...not big but with powerful taste...I have been buying Ontario produce at Farm Boy and it is yummy....but....there is nothing like your own garden produce..

Heat Wave Now

We are having a little heat wave ...the day starts out cooler but progresses to almost 30 degrees Celsius...I do not hang out in my greenhouse when it is that temperature and I have to water my greenhouse plants daily...they love lots of water...fortunately, a lot of my greenhouse plants are succulents, but they droop a little in the heat wave...like we do.....Canadians love to complain about the weather.....fun!

This is my gorgeous pink geranium that lived in my greenhouse last winter but loves the patio now.

Clearing some of the garden

It seems early to be clearing plants from the garden but last night I pulled out some dill-covered with little orange bugs that nest in the dill flowers which makes it uneatable....I tried just knocking them off but they came back with a vengeance.  The poppies are finished flowering so they will be going into the compost heap at Lappan's Lane in the not too distant future.
I have been weeding my garden this past week and it is looking much better...the herbs and flowers have more room to grow now.  I planted old fashioned four o'clocks and can't wait for them to bloom.  My dahliah is progressing well and the Rose of Sharon has buds now.
Tomato plants are slow growing but do have little tomatoes on them.
Love Gardening.....

Robins

Robins nested in our tree this year and when gardening the mother robin was so angry with me for being under the tree where her babes were.......

I tried to tell her that she was lucky to enjoy birthing in my tree but she just swooped down and tried to bomb me......Robins are Hilarious!

Getting back to blogging in July 2016

Whew...it has been a crazy year for myself and my family...could not begin to describe things...so...I will proceed into July 2016 and talk about my greenhouse and garden....my greenhouse is doing great ....not much going on in there except for repotting new aloe vera plants and aloe juvena plants...all the geraniums are thriving on the patio in pots and the cosmos seeds that I started in the greenhouse in March are gently waving in my garden and producing blooms....the cosmos  I am growing this year are called Seashell cosmos....they are not as tall as the old fashioned cosmos and colours are pink and burgundy....now...they are just starting to bloom so I still hope for white flowers.....In my herb garden in front of the greenhouse, I have planted two tomato plants and they are now forming tomatoes...can't wait to taste them....all in all, I am pleased with my garden this summer.....