Late August Garden Tour: Massive Onions, Volunteer Potatoes & Fall Surprises

Good morning! It is late August if you can believe that. We just got back from a family vacation and this is now a fun tradition to come out here in the garden with you when I get back from vacation. I haven't been out here in over eight days and I was going to get out here about an hour ago and it was raining which is crazy. So I just went inside had a second cup of coffee and now we're back at it. It's kind of like misting but it's not raining. So I'm grabbing a basket because I'm sure there are things we can harvest out here. I can already see quite a bit on just these green stalks alone. Now I have replanted green beans three times and it looks like now that it is late August we are finally getting them. Normally at this point I would be well into green bean harvest but you know some years that's how gardening goes. It looks like we're quite not quite ready to harvest everything. I'm going to give these ones another two or three days and then some of them have a ton of blossoms and it might be about a week and a half before we harvest those ones. I'm hoping that out in the garden we have quite a few more green beans to get. This green stalk is crazy to me. This variety is called Seascape and we are still harvesting strawberries. We harvested a few when we got back the day we got back but I'm letting these kind of ripen a little bit and we are I think are going to be harvesting strawberries off this variety of strawberries until I'm guessing late September which is crazy to me. Normally our strawberry season where we are is June and then that's it but this variety is I believe in everbearing so it produces all year. Now this variety I wouldn't say is the sweetest variety of strawberries I've ever grown but the fact that we're still getting strawberries in late August is incredible and these strawberry cups are propagating really well. I can't actually pull out the strawberry plants anymore. They are rooted out really well and take this out and let's see oh yeah they're totally rooted out which is pretty cool. These are the little pins that held it in place. I'm going to probably cut this off here and transplant that plant so I can start propagating a few more because over here I've got a few holes. See even this variety I don't remember what variety this is. Let's see I think these are the strawberry plants that I had before. They're still producing which is crazy. Some varieties of strawberries are June bearing meaning they produce fruit once and then they're done for the year. Some are called everbearing and they keep producing fruit throughout the growing season. I mean look at that and then I am starting to propagate some strawberry plants from over here over here. Looks like this one's not doing that great but that's okay. Yeah that one I don't think is gonna make it and I think that a lot of these strawberry plants that I started even those ones were bare roots meaning I planted just the root out. There was no green foliage on the plant. Typically those actually do better the following year. So we have not had enough strawberries to like freeze or do anything with other than we come out here as a family and harvest and eat them which is so fun but I'm thinking that hopefully these plants next year will produce a bumper crop. That's my hope. I've got my basket here and I'm hoping that we're going to be harvesting quite a bit today. Now this green stalk is doing fantastic. We have so much to harvest off this plant. These are serrano peppers. I think I'm going to grow almost all my peppers this next year in green stalks because these plants are doing so well. They're doing better. Now I haven't been out into my garden in over a week so so far they've been doing better than the pepper plants out in my garden and these pepper plants on this in this green stalk I am going to try to overwinter. Pepper plants are perennials which means their root stock will survive and keep growing if it doesn't get too cold over winter. Where we live they are not perennials because it gets too cold in winter and so the roots die but if you can keep the plant warm throughout winter it will survive. So what I'm going to try to do is put this whole green stalk planter same with these calibrachoa flowers. These are perennials if they don't get too cold. I'm going to put this whole green stalk planter in my grow room and take care of it all winter and see if we can just roll it out of the grow room in the spring or early summer for me where I live and get a jump start on the growing season. I'm going to turn all these serrano peppers into more cowboy candy because what I made last is already almost gone. I have probably enough to put on one more dinner. Some of these peppers I'm going to let get a little bit bigger and I'm hoping they'll put on one more flush of flowers. It actually looks like they just did right here. If you look close that just flowered and that's producing a little baby serrano pepper same with right here. I think these two will turn into serrano peppers but some of these I'm going to let just get a little bit more mature. But look at that we already have quite a bit. I can tell that these plants are hungry. See all these tiny little where the flowers look dead. I think those all got pollinated. Not that one that one's didn't get pollinated but this one looks like it did and that'll turn into a mini serrano pepper. But I can tell these plants are hungry so I will feed them some liquid fertilizer this afternoon. If they're red they're definitely ripe. So oops didn't mean to do that. Green serranos are actually technically not fully ripe serrano peppers but I like green serrano peppers so I harvest them when they're green but you can wait and harvest them when they are red. So let's go see what we can find in the garden. I'm so excited to go out there with you all. It looks like my favorite dahlia is starting to put on a lot more flowers. I actually was going to harvest a bouquet. I had my vase ready my nippers ready and everything like that but because it has kind of rained this morning I don't really want to bring in the flowers that are wet. So this afternoon I'll probably come out here and grab a bouquet. But I can see all my dahlias need to be cut back. Usually this time of year I'll cut them way back and then they'll put on one more flush of flowers. It'll kind of neat and tidy up this area and they will put on more blooms for me. Now I have decided I am going to actually take out quite a bit of the dahlias that I have in my landscape and I am going to... Well what I'm going to do is go through and tag the ones that I want to keep. I started all my dahlias in my landscape myself from seed. When you start dahlias from seed you don't know what they're going to look like and I love some of them and then some of them are not my favorites. Like the color or the look or something are not my favorites. For example I love this one. It is a peachy yellow one and they all are a little bit different. There's bumblebees still sleeping because it's still pretty early. But this one right here is not my favorite and this one is my absolute favorite. It's actually the only dahlia that turned out to be a big double full like this. I love the singles. I love this variety right here. This one it's one of my favorites but this one is just too big. I have cut it back a couple times and you can see it's like seven feet tall and it doesn't look very good underneath this tree. And that one I'm going to transplant because it's too tall under this tree. There's a lot of bumblebees still asleep. Actually most of these dahlias under this tree I'm going to transplant or just dig up all together and I want to redo this whole area. When you start them from seed you don't know what they're going to look like. So it's been super fun but I am going to go to a dahlia festival at some point in the next couple weeks and I'm going to buy some tubers because then I know what they're going to look like and how tall they're going to be. So I can be a little bit more intentional with this because this to me is looking a little bit overcrowded. So that's a next year project but it's one I'm looking forward to. So now let's go into the main garden which I am oh my goodness friends. Okay so excited about because I haven't been out here in so long and I can already tell you look at this. Okay I see pumpkins over here. When I left there was only one plant that had pumpkins on it. So to see okay good we've got yellow pumpkins that I just showed you. We've got our white mini pumpkins in here. I was worried we weren't going to get any pumpkins. I'm always worried that my garden is not going to produce. And then look at that. Pumpkins, pumpkin, pumpkins. Awesome. Peppers. Okay so I'm going to get some of these peppers too. Lots of baby pumpkins. Let's get this growing out this way. And it does look like I overcrowded this bed just a little bit like I always do. Get those growing down into the walkway. In this bed I've got some pepper plants. These are my sugar rush peach peppers and they are definitely being overcrowded by the pumpkins a little bit. But that is what it is. I think overall I did better about not overcrowding but this bed is not an example and that one for sure is not an example. I can see that I have pumpkins growing up this vine with these beans. This variety of bean is a new one back here. I had quite a bit of bug damage here and that's why there's no beans growing up here. But it looks like they're figuring themselves out. This is the back side of this bed. We have pumpkins growing all the way out here. I've got weeds I'm going to have to take care of. And we're starting to get baby pods. These are the variety I'm going to put it right here because I can't remember it's something mother. They're a little black and white drying bean and the flowers are white and they're really pretty. I think I'm going to put this over here and let this kind of grow and fill in this space here. Maybe we'll do that same thing over here. We're going to train that to go sideways. We'll see if we can kind of fill this space in a little bit. But so far that's looking really nice. Again I think I'm going to take all my pepper plants next year and try growing them on green stalks. I never have the best luck growing bell peppers. Serrano peppers have always done really well for me. The sugar rush peach peppers usually do really well for me. They might not this year because they're crowded out. But if I get them all in green stalks they might all do better. Serranos have always been historically one of my best peppers and anaheim peppers. So now let's go over here. I'm kind of getting distracted by everything. I'm going to try to go in a logical order. This next bed I way overcrowded it. It has onions and kale. There's carrots in there. It looks like we need to get most of these onions. So maybe this week we will do that. Looks like my Walla Walla onions are ready. Okay yay I was so worried if I wasn't going to have any squash when I got back because my plants didn't look very good. But this one looks fantastic. This one I'm going to let go another day. That one I'm going to let go another day. Look at that. The Walla Wallas are massive. I'm only growing Walla Walla onions next year. Do you see how big that is? That is as big as a softball. These scarlet runner beans volunteered themselves and they have completely taken over. But that's okay. I kind of like the look of this. I know it's kind of messy and chaotic but I do think it is beautiful. Next week I'm going to harvest a bunch of this kale and I'm going to do an olive garden. All-you-can-eat soup and salad dinner with Josh's siblings. When we were in Montana we were in Montana with Josh's siblings and I realized I have not had them over for dinner in over a year and a half. I see them. We have dinner at least twice a month with them but they haven't been over for dinner. So I thought it would be fun to have them over for an all-you-can-eat olive garden soup and salad because a lot of the ingredients I need to make the olive garden soups are growing in my garden and so we're going to have them over for dinner and make all of those soups and breadsticks and salad dressing from scratch. So that's going to be fun. So I'll need a bunch of that kale for the soup of Descana. Now it is late August and I have not harvested one large slicing tomato yet. That's very typical. Usually it's either late August or early September before I get any sort of ripe slicing tomato. This might have ripened a little bit quicker if it wasn't being kind of shaded out by all the plants in front but I can see that I am going to get a harvest off that and we are always really slow here because we have a very mild spring and so I watch many gardeners like in the south or even Michigan where you don't have much of a spring. It goes basically winter, a little bit of spring and then summer and so things take off like peppers and tomatoes. We're really, really slow around here. So that's why our season is late and sometimes I can even harvest green tomatoes in like October and I can let them ripen inside and I can still be eating fresh tomatoes that I let ripen inside in December. So a downside of having a mild spring is we don't get stuff till later but a benefit is we get stuff into fall because we have mild falls before it gets crazy, crazy cold. Sneak peek on this bed. Those are sunflowers. So excited. So having that yellow squash is really exciting because I thought when I got back all my squash was going to be done. It looks like I don't have any ready to pick zucchinis off this plant but I do see some baby ones in there so hopefully we will get some zucchinis off that plant. It's obviously way overcrowded and that's why it's not doing super well but we're gonna head down here. I have black pole beans back here and they're doing fantastic. They're putting on a ton of pods. I can usually get about eight pounds of dried beans off one of these trellises so I'm really excited about that. My cosmos in the front look beautiful. I could probably cut them back and deadhead them a little bit so I could get some fresh blooms. The red onions are looking great. Some of them are really bulbing up. This one has not flowered yet so that's exciting. I might be able to store that for fresh eating. I can see some of them are starting to bloom so those I should harvest and get pickled so that we can eat them as pickled. I see a lot of... This is not great. A lot of flowers coming on. My onions did not do super great this year in the fact that a ton of them flowered and I'm not sure why but we'll still be able to eat them. That one looks beautiful and it's bulbed up nicely and it's not flowering. Because I had a baby in January, honestly any sort of harvest is a win in my book because this garden has had probably the least amount of attention any of my gardens have ever had and it looks like we're still gonna get a decent harvest. I mean look at all these green tomatoes on here. I need to trellis up a lot of these plants. We've got tomatoes on the dirt which we don't want. That's just asking for bugs to damage them but we've got a little bit of blushing on that tomato. So here shortly... That is a huge tomato right there. That is bigger than a softball or maybe that's two tomatoes. Nope, that's just one. But shortly we will be getting some slicing tomatoes and I'm pretty sure that tomato plant right there is gonna give me a ton of cherry tomatoes. I'm not seeing too much weed pressure which is great. I did a huge weeding before we left. Looks like I've got in here some peppers I can grab. Oh something ate that. Something's been eating these. So this bed has done only okay. The scarlet runner beans are doing fantastic. They kind of take over. These onions up front are starting to bulb up. The pepper plants never did super great. Like they don't look super healthy. I did just get eight peppers off them but for that many pepper plants I should get more. A theme throughout... Oh my goodness. A theme throughout this garden is that I think the compost that I did not apply this spring is what is affecting some of these plants but clearly it hasn't been a problem. Look at this. This is why I like to wait and come out here with you all when I haven't been out here in a week. These are my African marigolds and they are absolutely stunning. I did put some petunias in here and I did put one cosmo and then look at my eucalyptus. It's grown exponentially since last time I was in here. That eucalyptus is now probably six feet tall or seven feet tall and it's in this tiny little pot. I know the taproot has gone through this soil or not the soil the gravel and is going down deep into the soil. So these live here. If we have a really hard winter they will die but for now this looks incredible. And then cucumbers. Oh my gosh. Okay I have not grown a cucumber in my garden in so long. The last two years my garden has refused to grow cucumbers. I don't know why. And look at this. It smells so good. It's growing up this eucalyptus plant which I'm fine with. So we have two cucumbers. Cucumbers are not my favorite vegetable. I like eating them out of my garden and making tzatziki out of them. So that's what I'm going to do with these. And honestly if I get three and I can make a cucumber tomato salad one this summer I'm going to call that a huge success because the last two years I have not gotten like but one cucumber. So that's awesome. But look how beautiful these African marigolds are. So pretty. I opened when we got back from Montana I made some enchiladas and I opened my second to last green salsa canning jar. So I'm hoping that these tomatillos take off and we get a ton of those this year. But for now they're not quite ready to be harvested. I see a lot of them on there but they're not quite ready to be harvested. And they do look hungry. Look at that yellow leaves. So I should fertilize those. These are more black beans and they're looking fantastic. Lots of pods on here. Oh that's a weed I'm gonna get another one. I think I'm going to grow some more types of drying beans on these trellises next year because they just do so good. They fill them out so nicely and they're so beautiful. Okay this is encouraging. I see one, two, three, four, five, six pumpkins that have been pollinated. But honestly these plants don't look super great. This is calendula in here. I don't know if it's the calendula or what. But these pumpkin plants are just... I am not going to get the pumpkin harvest that I have had in years past. I mean look at these ones. There should be pumpkin vines growing all the way out here. The calendula planted itself, it goes to seed. It's basically like an invasive weed at this point. I don't know if that's the problem or if the fact that they haven't been fed that much is the problem. I'm going to get a few pumpkins. Definitely not going to be the pumpkin harvest of years past. That's okay. Over here... Okay this is encouraging. So I was hoping I'd be able to harvest some more green beans at this point. But I think it's going to be about a week and then I will be able to come in here and get a ton of green beans. They're just a little too small yet. But I see lots of flowers and I see lots of baby green beans. Carrots, more green beans, some lettuces coming up. I need to plant that again because the lettuce... I did plant lettuce all throughout here. This I'm going to pull. This is an ornamental from this that self-seeded itself. So I need to plant more lettuce because I didn't have obviously very good germination here. Over here, this was the sunflower bed that I just showed you. And it looks like this zucchini plant, or yellow squash plant I should say, still looks very healthy. So we're going to get this one. I think we'll be able to eat this. The problem with these yellow squash is they have really big seeds really quickly. So we'll lose a lot of that when I cut this open. But we'll still eat it. But it looks like we've got some more baby ones coming on. I didn't plant very many zucchinis. I planted more yellow squash and I regret that. So next year I'm going to plant more zucchini and less yellow squash. Very shortly, this is going to be a full sunflower bed. More scarlet runner beans, which I have yet to taste. So I'm going to taste them this year and hopefully we like them. Because I'm going to have a ton of them. As you can see, they're there and way down there. From here, we've got our zinnia bed and some volunteer nasturtiums. This just looks beautiful. The first pumpkin plants I showed you are at the end of this bed. And I've got tomatoes in here, which I can grab some. These nasturtiums seeded themselves this year and they look really pretty. But they are a little out of control and I'm okay with that. There's more tomatoes in here I can harvest. But what I need to do is train these plants up. Because there's about three feet of tomato plant just bent over here and here. That definitely need to go up. Let's see, I can see tomatoes in here. With these tomatoes, I'm going to make Josh and I's favorite tomato zucchini dish. I need to go grocery shopping and get the sausage we like to add to that dish. Actually, these are the only ones. That should be enough though, tomatoes. The day before we left, I harvested a ton of these. And so I think that's why there's not as many cherry tomatoes right now. The zinnias are looking fantastic. And look at this eucalyptus tree. It is probably 12 feet tall now at this point. Again, that taproot is well into the gravel path. That is incredible. Oh my goodness! Okay, I was sure that when I got back this plant was going to be dead. Because it had struggled with squash bugs and I treated it. I didn't treat it with anything. I came through and I removed all the squash bug. There's a ton of them right there. Squash bug eggs. And there's a bunch that have just hatched. So I'm going to smash those. Oh, there's more eggs there. Yuck. Those are the eggs. Those are the baby bugs. I'm going to smash them. But I thought that when I got back this plant was going to be just done for. But look at this. We got two zucchinis. There's one that's going to ripen up here. Here's one that's ready to be pollinated. Those two are ready to be pollinated. You don't see any more eggs or baby squash bugs. Let's go ahead and put this down here before I spill everything. The peas are done. Definitely done. I have tons of anaheim peppers. Before we left, I harvested a ton of anaheim peppers and put them up in the freezer. And it looks like we're going to get some more anaheims. Usually I can get three harvests of anaheim peppers off my plants. Here you can see more anaheims. This plant had none on it when we left. Maybe they were little. I'm not sure. Last year I grew pinto beans or these are rattlesnake beans, but they taste like a pinto bean on this back trellis. And some of the seed must have dropped and it planted itself. These are some sweet peas. These are flowers. These you cannot eat. And the rattlesnake beans you can eat as green beans or you can let them dry and eat them as like a pinto bean, which is my favorite way. But I might harvest some of these and eat them as green beans because we have had such little green bean harvests here. But all of these planted themselves, which is kind of cool. Over here, this bed is looking pretty. I already harvested all the onions and I chopped them and froze them. And it looks like something. I'm sure it was a bunny. I don't know. That looks like... I don't know what would have done that. But Josh needs to fix that irrigation. But these are Roma tomatoes in here and I'm seeing lots of green fruit. Look at that. That is exciting. So nothing that I need to take care of yet in here. Over here, this is really encouraging. I've got lots of carrots. These are back here, some sugar snap peas or snow peas. I can't remember what I planted. We've got lots of flowers. So we're going to have a second flush of those here shortly. The carrots look fantastic. That was a garlic bed. And now we're going to get a second harvest out of it. Over here, here's yet another pumpkin plant that is not doing much. I guess it's not my pumpkin year. If you watched last year, my pumpkin harvest was incredible. I harvested... I see something exciting. You see it? That's what was exciting, is that sunflower. Last year's pumpkin harvest, though, was out of this world unlike anything other that I've grown. And I love growing pumpkins. And I'm going to get pumpkins this year, especially little pumpkins. But I don't think I'm going to be decorating my porch with the amount of pumpkins I did, as I did last year. I actually gave tons of them away. Just anyone who wanted pumpkins, come over and grab pumpkins, because I had more than I needed. And it's not going to be that year in my garden this year, but that's okay, because some years you get lots of other things, and this year is just not my pumpkin year. This is another Roma tomato bed, and it's looking fantastic. It looks like the onions that I left in here that I didn't harvest when I harvested the other ones are starting to go to flower. So I'm going to need to harvest these, chop them, and do something with them. Yeah, I don't know why. They're all just going to flower this year. This is pretty. I have, again, dahlias everywhere. Some of them have self-seeded themselves. Some of them I started, and I'm going to be doing a big dahlia cleanup, because I just have more dahlias than I need. Oh, there's a hummingbird sitting on... Oh, did you see its tongue just come out? Anyway, I love hummingbirds, and they love the pole beans so much. So anyway, it's so pretty. All that I was saying is that I have too many dahlias of... This is actually a new variety I planted this year. This was another one from seed. I'm not going to start any more dahlias from seed. I've decided that going into the future, I am going to invest in some tubers so that I know exactly what they are going to look like. I have had a lot of fun growing them from seed, because it's kind of whimsical to see what you're going to get, but at this point, I just have too many of them. So I'm excited to kind of go through and keep my favorites, and then give away... I won't throw them away. I will pop them up and either give them to my local library or my mother-in-law's church. My mother-in-law's church, there's a lot of gardeners in there, so I can gift them away that way. And my local library loves taking free plants that you can put free on the outside of the library, and people will pick them up, and it's kind of a fun way to share in the abundance. But here's another look at this bed. A lot of my petunias are kind of done. They're starting to show signs of just kind of being done. But our tomatoes will be ready here shortly. Now this bed, I have cut this sage plant back once already this year down to the ground, and it's already grown up tons. I think I might actually rip that up and move that, or maybe I won't. I don't know. But here you can see I have serrano peppers in here. These plants don't look super great, even though there are lots of serranos on them. These ones, for some reason, they're in the same bed, and they look a lot better. Like just the leaves and everything look a lot better. They're a lot greener, and there are a lot of serranos in here that I can get. And then this again is the same pole bean that is up on that first trellis, and it's looking fantastic. And then these pumpkin plants died. Something ate the plant, and then something's been scratching this. I bet it's a bunny, because I have bunnies in my garden every day. Yeah, that's not even attached to the ground anymore. Before I left, I noticed that this was chewed off at the base. Now this bed is, well, it looks like a mess, but you might be able to hear my neighbor. He just came out to work. It's like the perfect weather to work right now, because it's cool and overcast, and it's been in the high 80s. But this bed is a russet potato bed. My parents are coming over to harvest this bed sometime either today or sometime this week. I'm not sure. They're going to text me if they're coming over today or if they're coming over later this week. But I had planted potatoes in here from seed that I had saved from potatoes that I grew last year, and they grew, they flowered, they died back. They died back probably about two, three weeks ago. So these really need to be harvested. I turned the irrigation off to this bed so the soils had time to dry out, and I planted a cover crop of lettuce. But I planted the potatoes, and then a week or two later, I planted the lettuce. The lettuce started to grow, and then the potatoes took over, and the lettuce was underneath the potato plants. And then the potato plants have died back, and you can't really see the potato plants anymore. They've kind of composted into this bed. But what that did is it gave room for the lettuce to start growing again. And so let's see what this soil looks like. It's pretty dry, so this will be good. We're going to harvest the potatoes whenever my parents say they're coming over. I hope they're coming over today, but I'm not exactly sure. And then here we have, this is the scarlet runner bean trellis that overwintered, and it is just crazy. I don't know what I'm going to do if I'm going to let this grow back again another year. It might die back if we have a harsh winter. But this is just crazy. I mean, look at the size of these leaves. I feel like the leaves are bigger, and the vines are thicker than when they grew the first year. They just are absolutely huge. And it might actually, I don't know, I'm kind of worried it might actually collapse the trellis with the weight of it. I'm not sure, but it has just gone crazy. And so we'll see. I really hope I like eating these. We're going to try them together this year because I'm going to get a lot of them. Now over here, this is our second pumpkin bed. And for some reason, I only have one variety of pumpkin in here. And this variety of pumpkin is doing absolutely fantastic. This, I believe, is called Blaze. And they're already the size they're going to be. So they're probably the size of like a small cantaloupe. Last year, I turned these into a beautiful flower arrangement. They actually like cut a hole in the top and dug out and turned them into a flower arrangement. And it was beautiful. And I plan to do that again this year. But these might honestly be the best pumpkins I get. And they're a bush variety, so they don't vine. They just kind of stay in a bush form. So they've already put on all their fruit, I think. And now they're just ripening. This bed has also produced my very first sunflower of the year, which is exciting. I've got another sunflower here and another one there. And then I have a couple zinnias as well. So from there, we are going to harvest this bed when my parents come over to harvest potatoes. This was a volunteer potato bed. I did absolutely nothing to this bed this year. It has grown potatoes that have died back. Some of them are sticking out, so that's not great. Like that one is a little soft, so we probably won't save that one. But there's a lot of potatoes in here. There was snapdragons that have started to die back. Lots of weeds. We have a volunteer dahlia here. This one's really pretty. I actually really like... See, like this is a short one. So like this is one I would want to save. So maybe I will dig this up and put it in one of these pots and save. And I would put around that tree up there. Because that is like an appropriate size for around a tree versus... And like this one is even probably four feet tall. I don't really want these super tall ones up in my landscape because they just look a little lanky. Versus this one's kind of like short, compact, cute little flowers. So that's going to be a whole project in and of itself that I'm going to have to kind of tackle. But we have lots of potatoes in here. This was a potato bed years past and I did nothing to it. We also in here had some onions and some garlic that volunteered themselves that I've already harvested. So this whole bed has lots of weeds in it. So we'll take care of those today. And we'll get what we can get out of this potato bed. So it's kind of fun to have a bed that I did absolutely nothing to. Lots of snapdragons that have started to die back. We have a wild blackberry that needs to go. And then over here... What is this berry? I plant... I got these from Azure and I don't know if they're ripe. I don't know. I need to look and see. They're kind of soft. These are a berry that you all told me that I cannot eat raw. So I need to cook these and turn them into jam and then they're delicious. But there's quite a few fruits on them. I will put up here what they are. And then this here is another dahlia bed that needs to be cut back. And I'm going to reclaim this bed for some other plants next year. So I'm going to dig up all these dahlias and I'm probably going to give all of these away. Now what are these? I'm going to have to go back and look because these have a different flower. This is like a light pink flower. These volunteered themselves also but these look the same. I think they're just a different variety of some sort of scarlet runner bean. But they volunteered themselves so I didn't have to do anything there. And I didn't do anything with this bed. I've already harvested a bunch of potatoes right here. And then there's a bunch of potatoes to harvest. Oh my goodness. So my parents when they come over... Oh my gosh that one exploded. Okay so we need to harvest all the potatoes out of here. And there's another volunteer dahlia. And then this is comfrey. I'm going to cut all this back and we're going to clean this up whenever my parents come over to help me with harvest. So three beds of potatoes. I only intended to have one potato bed but the garden had other plans. And it's kind of an amazing thing. I never was a huge fan of potatoes. I love growing potatoes because one, I love harvesting potatoes. But potatoes have never been my favorite thing to eat. But for some reason over the past few months I've really come to love potatoes. And so I'm very much excited for this. And this is a volunteer potato. I had planted some purple potatoes in here. They're purple skin but white flesh and they're delicious. So I'm excited to see what's going to come out of this bed. I have, like I said, I've harvested right here. But there's still a lot of potatoes under the ground here and here. I am super excited for this haul. This is going to be this week's groceries. I have not planned what I'm making for dinner. This week yet. Like I said when we got back from Montana I pulled out some burritos. And I opened a jar of enchilada sauce and we had enchiladas. We had some french toast that I had had made and frozen in the freezer for breakfast this morning. But before I really planned my menu for the week, I did want to come grocery shopping in my garden. And there's a lot more to come out of this garden. Hopefully my parents, I have to look at my phone. My mom I think is coming over today at noon. But they said wait and I'll text you in the morning because of some things that might come up in their schedule. We might have to do it later in the week. But we've got tons of potatoes. I'm guessing probably 100 pounds of potatoes at least. I mean we'll see. That's the fun thing about potatoes. You never know until you start digging them up of potatoes coming out of the garden. It could be a very small harvest. Maybe we waited too long to harvest and the bugs have gotten to them. So time will tell on that. But tomatoes are just starting to come in. And it's just I'm excited for the zucchinis and the yellow squash and things like that that I thought, honestly I thought when I got back those were going to be done. Just because of how I planted them and the bug pressure which I don't normally have. And I'm just super grateful for anything that's coming out of the garden because like I said, I mean I have put a lot of work into it but compared to years past, so much less work has gone into this garden than in years past. And so I feel quite frankly very very blessed with the abundance out of it because I feel like the garden knew that I just didn't have the energy to put as much effort into it and it was able to kind of meet me halfway. So it's really exciting. So thank you for being here as we did this whole entire late August garden tour. Lots more to come. Carrots, hopefully tomatillos I'm thinking. And like with anything if I don't have a good harvest on something like pumpkins, I can go to our local pumpkin patch. We have tons of pumpkin patches around here and I can buy pumpkins to decorate my front porch. If my tomatillos don't end up producing like they've done in years past when I've grown tomatillos and I don't have enough to put up because I only have one jar left and it's Josh's favorite, I can go to my local farmer's market and pick up tomatillos. It's not a problem at all. I'm just grateful for what has come out of my garden. I'm grateful for you for inviting me into your home. Let me pop some videos here you can go enjoy between now and my next upload. I hope you're having a great day and I can't wait to see you next time. Bye friend.