Last Harvest

Harvested a great batch of award winning size and blemishless turnips.

Lynda (one of my grandaughters) and I planted an iris she had "borrowed" from one of the vacant houses yard. She named it "Lil Kim" after a rap artist....a very lewd one at that. I bloomed the next year with a slightly dirty yellow. The stocks have a tendency to grow bent.

End of the season

While in the yard today I heard this great comotion of birds behind me. When I turned around they all suddenly became quite. There were about 10 sparrows perched in the mock orange bush. When I turned around and headed back to the shop they resumed their squabbling. Suddenly they all lit off in a cloud of aviary angst and into the chain linked fence, then as quickly as they had left they were back in the mock orange and quite.

It is nippy today and the garden has just about gone dormant. I plucked off the spent flower head of the marigolds and put them up for seed next year.