Category Archives: gardening

Mystery flower

August 12, 2020gardeningsusanmanzke

I don’t remember ever seeing this lily in my garden. Never. Ever.

Any ideas what this lily is?

I don’t remember planting any kind of lily this year.

It’s pretty in pink.

It came up in a weedy patch of overgrown poppies, right next to the house.

I’m happy to see it, but I have no idea what kind of lily it is. Ideas are welcome.

Potatoes

August 6, 2020food, gardeningsusanmanzke

Don’t feel sorry for me that my potatoes are small. That’s what I planted.

Oops, I turned the camera the wrong way, but I think you get the idea.

It doesn’t take much to cook up little spuds.

Boiling some in heavily salted water for 30 minutes and then let dry. You have a nice vegetable or snack. By the way, you keep the skins on. If you tried to peel them there wouldn’t be anything left.

Daylily

July 16, 2020gardeningsusanmanzke

I do like daylilies, especially since they are pretty and come back every year.

I also like to find a surprise in my flower garden. Like the time I came upon this little frog friend.

A toad hopped near my feet this morning, but it didn’t stay around for me to get its photo.

A special BLT

July 11, 2020food, gardeningsusanmanzke

Summer brings great vegetables, but most take months to grow. I’ve been craving a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, but had no homegrown tomatoes.

There are tomatoes on my plants, but it will take a couple weeks before I get any red enough to eat.

These tomatoes need a little weeding, too.

I continue to crave my BLT. Lucky for me my friend, Kathy, brought me a few little cherry tomatoes. I cut these into three pieces each and created my first BLT sandwich of the season.

The only trouble using cherry tomatoes is that pieces often slip out when you are eating.

The sandwich has to be held firmly, or risk losing one of the important ingredients, the tomato.

It was worth the trouble. I totally enjoyed my lunch and look forward to a time when I can step out my backdoor and pick a tomato for another BLT sandwich–or just to sink my teeth into one fresh homegrown fruit.

My tomatoes can’t come soon enough. I’m drooling for one right now. But that’s how the garden grows.