August: How Does the Garden Grow?

This year, I don’t have annual flowers in my garden, but I do plan to have some next year. The only exception is my pink petunias. I bought the seeds from a dollar store back in the spring. Whether the seeds weren’t any good or I didn’t water them enough, I don’t know, but I only got two petunia plants out of the entire seed packet. But I must say they are very pretty. I hope my two petunia plants will produce some seeds for the next year.



One morning, on my daily check of the garden, I noticed how pretty my green onions looked with the drops of water on them. I thought I’d take a picture and post it in my next garden report. Green onions grow all year around in my garden, and I like adding them to salads and omelets.

And now I want to show what I recently harvested. The plums come from my neighbors’ garden. Wait, I know what you are thinking, but let me explain ;-)



The tree grows near the fence, so I have many branches on my side. The neighbors kindly let me have as many plums as I want and can reach. So I harvest them liberally. Besides, if I don’t pick them off the tree, the plums will end up decaying on the ground in my yard and that is not pretty. These plums are not very big but sweet and juicy.

The tomatoes and onions are from my vegetable garden. I’m very happy with the tomatoes but not so happy with the onions. I expected my onions to grow bigger. The greens in the basket with the onions are rosemary. I picked several twigs as I was making baked potatoes with rosemary.

And this completes my August garden report. To see what others are growing and harvesting this month, visit An Oregon Cottage for Tuesday Garden Party.