My zinnias survived the moving van. I lost a couple plants and about 30 blooms, but honestly, that’s a drop in the bucket of what is out there. It still looks beautiful.
The neighbors did move out. I thought this would mean that our neighborhood would be quieter, but instead, they are fixing up the house, possibly to sell, who knows, but now there is the constant activity of workers coming and going. As long as they stay away from my garden, I don’t care what goes on over there.
Speaking of the garden, August is a glorious time in Portland for dahlias, and also harvesting veggies. Last night we all sat down to an amazing Mexican inspired dinner that included salsa verde chicken, chicken Tinga, peach salsa, corn salsa, kale and cabbage slaw, guacamole in our new huge molcajete, and The Peacemaker’s rendition of Rajas Poblanas, roasted poblano peppers with lots of cheese.
In order to give more energy to all the little blossoms and new peppers coming on the plants, a couple days ago we harvested anaheims, poblanos, and jalapeños.
We love peppers!
We also love cucumbers, but next year we’ll plant just a couple. We have harvested dozens of cucumbers already. They grow so fast!
We also had a bit of a tomato catastrophe. One of the plants got so heavy with tomatoes that the cage collapsed.
No worries though, I was able to salvage the lot. The Peacemaker is such a genius. His comment: next year we need a sturdier cage, 😂. Ya think?
We currently have 2 fig trees in the front, and a persimmon tree plus 3 apple trees in the back garden. This coming spring I’m planning to espalier a plum, and plant 2 dwarf peach trees near the apples. The rock retaining wall in the fruit tree garden is about half done.
Weirdly enough, today we had clouds, and tonight we had rain, but dahlias light up the whole house, regardless the weather. Rain is good. Today’s dahlia pics:
Dinner table bouquetGardening is a beautiful thing!
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try not to cry on my rainbow 
Wow, so many cucumbers and tomatoes, I am in awe! I planted both last year and got barely a thing. What an amazing gardener you are – hats off to you! SWxo
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Thank you, SW. Clearly I love gardening. Today we harvested 12 cucumbers and three dozen+ tomatoes. Also, bunches and bunches of table grapes. It’s been a very prosperous garden year with all the extra shelter in place attention. ❤️
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I love your garden and all of your photos… but sweet sugar-faced Lily! OMG! Sweetheart!
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She still thinks she’s a puppy and runs around inspecting everything. They are so sweet!
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OMG! Peppers!! I bet those are so tasty when you put them in recipes. I’m absolutely jealous!
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So good!
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Naw, Lily.
Such a beautiful thing to nurture during a pandemic. Love you ❤
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That old gal still likes to explore! Looks like you are having a smashing weekend! We’re off to meet Sunny’s mom at the beach house in a couple hours! Not as fun as your weekend! Took our first covid test. Waiting on results. Antibodies were negative. Doc said 98% that we don’t have covid although he said lots of people have no symptoms. 2020 is a bitch! 😘
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Have fun at the beach! 🌊⛱
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Was a lovely time being guests in our own home!
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I love dahlias too. Your garden is amazing!
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🙏🏼 Dahlias are just so beautiful, perfect, diverse in color and blossom. I’m in love with my dahlia garden. So worth it!
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