Having been away for most of August, I missed the last of our garden in flower! And, missed my weekly virtual wander through everyone’s lovely gardens.
When we came back from holiday, I looked at our garden and saw it getting ready for Fall. The flowers were gone, the acorns were falling, our (two!) cucumbers had been harvested and eaten!
I had given up on the Morning Glory that my 4yo had planted. He was disappointed that his seeds hadn’t flowered, I was upset for him. We had moved it so that it trailed up and around our fence. It had thrived and covered a section of the fence beautifully. But, no flowers.
Then, suddenly, it flowered! It was the most wonderful, vivid blue. Over the day it turned lilac, then purple. The 4yo was absolutely thrilled :)
As we prepare for autumn, my last task (before I start looking at what I should be planting now, in preparation for spring… Novice gardener here!) was to pick all my Basil before a first frost killed it!
The Basil had done really well, I’ve never seen Basil plants that big before (far too big to bring indoors…)! We’ve been using it in pasta sauces – the boys have loved picking it and adding it to the sauce! – but there is quite a lot and I didn’t want it to go to waste. So, I picked it and put it into ice cube trays. Now I have perfect little portions of Basil for the winter :) It smells divine!
I am looking forward to seeing the garden change colour as the wonderful New England fall approaches. It was stunning last year, even if we did spend every weekend sweeping up leaves!
I am linking up with the wonderful Mammasaurus again for her ‘How does your garden grow?’ linky. Click on the badge and be inspired.
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What a great idea to do with the basil leaves, I must do that with my mint before that starts to vanish too.
How sweet that your 4 year olds Morning Glory sprung in to life, he must have been chuffed to bits!
Thanks ever so much for sharing again my dear x
My pleasure! I missed joining in during August :) The 4yo was thrilled! Thanks for hosting xx
love the morning glory and how clever of you to freeze the basil for perfect cooking portions!!
Thank you! The morning glory was very pretty, we’ll be planting lots more along the fence next year :)
Your basil is huge!! Great idea for storing it over the Winter too. Glad your Morning Glory flowered in the end :)
Thank you! It was a relief when it flowered :)
Wow what a fabulous sight, the Morning Glory is rather beautiful isn’t it. Your 4 year old must have been made up! You must show photos of the leaves when they come, bet they look wonderful. It’s definitely autumn in the UK!
It’s so pretty, isn’t it? The 4yo was thrilled to bits, he kept running out to look at it, and insisting on showing people! Very sweet. I will definitely take lots of pictures of the leaves – it’s a beautiful sight :)
What amazing colours! And you can never have too much Pesto…just discovered it myself, altthough I must read up on when it dies off….freezing sounds like it may be the way forward!
Thank you! I agree on the Pesto – sadly no one else in the family does :) I just had visions of coming down one morning to find it all looking very sad having been frozen over night!!
The morning glory is fabulous, but I do always chuckle at the name! (childish I know..) I love the cucumbers and freezing the basil is such a good idea.
Yeah, it makes me smile too :) It’s very pretty though!
I like home grown cucumbers – they look and taste so real compared with the shop version. Your cucumbers look so real – juicy, vibrant and big hearty seeds.
Glad the morning glory came good.
The cucumbers were great – we’ll be more organised next year and plant more, in a better location! Definitely something special about eating homegrown!
I love that you can just freeze the basil leaves! I had no idea that was possible, So lovely that the morning glory surprised you all with a late display and made your son’s summer!
They have frozen well, still smell amazing and we’ve used some already! My son was absolutely thrilled when the morning glory finally flowered :)
Oh Sara his Morning Glory are just beautiful, he must be delighted. I love your Basil freezing idea and never even thought about doing that. I can’t wait to see the start of your fall pictures. It’s one of my Bucket List dreams to see New England in the fall x
Thank you Nichola :) He was so chuffed! I’m looking forward to Fall – the colours last year were amazing… I will bore you to tears with photos ;)
What a fabulous idea for the basil – I hadn’t thought of that! And what a beautiful shade of blue/purple the morning glory is. Well done the boy for being such a greenfingered whizz xx
Thank you :) The boy was so excited when it flowered – he’s now talking about what we can plant next year!