I altered 2 of the blocks I showed yesterday and had fun making a bunch of smaller blocks. I'm only using the scraps in the bag so far. I need to cut some more black and white fabrics into scraps.
I guess this is the best bloom I'm going to get on the little Flare Hydrangea. I have been trying to be faithful watering it since the directions said it needed to be watered every week. I hope the little bush will get larger next year.
My luck with planting flower seeds this year has been about 1%. All of the zinnias got eaten by bugs, the cornflowers were dug up twice by little critters. I planted Forget-me-not in this pot and 2 months later nothing had come up so when I found a fifth volunteer tomato plant I put it in this pot. Then 2 Forget-me-not plants came up. The first has withered and dried and this is the second one.
This little volunteer tomato plant was pretty frail and it has still produced Sungold tomatoes.
This is 4th of July variety still producing.
Lots of clusters of tomatoes. These are Early Girls.
This is another Branch of 4th of July variety. I made use of my short shepherd hooks holding up the long branches.
This is the top of the SunGold cage, 5 feet high. These are very prolific.
I have a few tomatoes on the Rutgers plants and quite a few large ones on the Big Beef plant. The squirrels take bites out of any that are near the ground so I need to prop up a branch with about 8 tomatoes on it.
If you are interested, I have a destash sale going on at my WandafulQuilts blog page.
Those are pretty blocks. Looks like your garden is still thriving. I have a volunteer Sungold too, but I have seeds for it for next spring!
ReplyDeleteLovely scrappy blocks--I like the addition of the B&W's, Wanda;)))
ReplyDeleteYour tomatoes really did well this year...hugs, Julierose
I had no luck with seeds this year either. I had one marigold come up out of hundreds I threw down. A friend gave me some poppy seeds and not a one of them came up. Your tomatoes are still producing well. Those blocks are so pretty!
ReplyDeleteThe blocks are shaping up joyously. Zinnias are Zion's flower and I have spectacularly UNsuccessful in growing them.
ReplyDeleteamazed your tomatoes are still producing
ReplyDeleteLove those happy blocks and hope you're enjoying imagining them into reality!
ReplyDeleteYour tomatoes are astonishing for this time of year, but then, we have marigolds coming up and are several inches tall. What is up with that?
Hugs!
I don't do well with planting seeds instead of already-started plants - always disappointed in the results. Your tomatoes look great (ours have been gone for a long time now). And I LOVE the playtime blocks you're making.
ReplyDeleteI agree back to your cutting table for more black ‘n whites. They add so much to those blocks. Back to “Play Time 4” 🤗
ReplyDeleteThat anonymous was me Wanda … I didn’t realize I hadn’t registered for Google again.
ReplyDeleteMy BIL grows tomatoes and gave us a few. So delicious. I need to learn how to grow them.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you're going to have a good crop of tomatoes. It's been a few years since we had some in the veg patch, they were finished off by the bugs unfortunately!
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