CSA Shares: Week 12

The final week! 

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 10 (September 7-13/2014):

Bachelor's Buttons

Callendula

Celosia

Cosmos

Dianthus

Gomphrena

Lavender

Salvia

Snapdragons

Statice

Yarrow

Zinnias

CSA Shares: Week 11

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 11 (August 31- Sept 6/2014):

Callendula

Cosmos

Dianthus

Gomphrena

Lavender

Snapdragons

Statice

Yarrow

Zinnias

p.s. It just occurred to me that I should have at least done a little more window cleaning before I took all of these pictures all season, oops! 

CSA Shares: Week 10

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 10 (August 24-30/2014):

Callendula

Dianthus

Gomphrena

Snapdragons

Yarrow

Zinnias

CSA Shares: Week 9

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 9 (August 17-23/2014) :

Baby Blue-Eyes

Bachelor Buttons

Callendula

Celosia

Daisies

Rudbeckia

Salvia

Snapdragons

Sunflowers

Zinnias

CSA Shares: Week 8

Whoops! Forgot to take pics of most of the shares this week! Life got a little crazy with visits from cousins and getting ready to go back to school:) 

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 7 (August 10-16/2014):

Hydrangea

Seedum

CSA Shares: Week 7

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 7 (August 3-9/2014) (We skipped a week for vacation):

Baby Blue-Eyes

Bachelor Buttons
Callendula
Candytufts
Celosia

Cosmos

Lavender

Nigella Love-in-the-Mist
Rudbeckia

Salvia

Snapdragons
Statice

Sunflowers

Zinnias

CSA Shares: Week 6

In the Flower CSA Shares Week 6 (July 20-26/2014):

Baby Blue-Eyes

Bachelor Buttons
Callendula
Candytufts
Celosia

Dahlias
Lavender

Nigella Love-in-the-Mist
Rudbeckia

Salvia

Snapdragons
Statice

Sunflowers

Zinnias

Last week's shares marked the half-way point of the season, I can hardly believe it!  When I felt like it was a crazy idea to even fathom in the early spring, it felt like such a huge task to undertake.  It's amazing how practice and time and planning and actually enjoying the work you're doing make the work you're doing hardly seem like work at all!  And it has worked.  Amazingly! I'm enjoying it like crazy and already thinking about how to grow and plant even more for next year!

In the Garden:

The crabgrass is insane.  I've been able to keep up with it for the most part until now, but I feel like I'm starting to lose the battle! Not giving up, though, just researching more organic ways to fight it that won't damage the soil and that don't involve my favorite method up until this point - me pulling every bit that comes up by hand. I got out there for one last big push to get it by hand on Friday, but I think it's going to need to involve more aggressive tactics from now on! If anyone has any favorite methods, please feel free to send my way!

The sunflowers are starting to bloom even more and so are the Dahlias, both of which are making me happy.  I also have a few Sweet Peas that I planted early in the season that I thought were a lost cause this year that are just starting to make an appearance! For as much as I thought I didn't care too much about Zinnias when I planted them, those girls sure are pretty.  They're colorful and cheerful and easy to grow and predictable and just keep producing and loved by all of the bees in the backyard.  I thought they're just sort of be something to be able to count on this year, and they have been, but I didn't think I'd be staring at the start of August and already thinking of how many more varieties of Zinnias I want to plant next year!