Are those little green buds what I thing they are? Brussel
sprouts!!! I had all but given up on my lovely brussel sprout
plants, which have existed alll summer without sprouting...the very
ones planted from seed 8 months ago, in March. I guess they were
just waiting for the cooler weather! They take a loooong, looong
time! (-:
And here's another oddity:
I was clearing out the beds of the withered summer plants, and also
pulled the remaining carrots. This one came out like this!
The other side looks like a regular carrot, but this side looks like it
had been split in half! You can see the center taproot, and the
meaty part looks hollow. Isn't that neat?
these were the prettiest wildflower/weeds of the whole season...
Artsy gave me the pumpkins from her garden
Our sycamore tree in it's fall bronzyness...those balls are seed
pods. WHen they mature, they fall to the ground and poof open,
releasing thousands of seeds. The kids like to pull them apart,
but do they ever have strong, dusty pollen! Achoo!
