My grandson and I visited the Texas Discovery Gardens new indoor butterfly house a couple of weekends ago. It is wonderful. Met one of my gardening friends there and he took a snapshot of us watching the butterflies!
And here is a picture of a butterfly that landed on my grandson – he wasn’t leaving until one landed on him. Proud of him for being so patient.
We have had cool weather and rain for the last several days. So still waiting to get my fall veggies in. Texas State Fair starts tomorrow and it is going to be sunny and in the low 80’s – perfect!
Archive for September, 2009
Discovery Gardens
My cucumbers were Armenian!!
Am so embarrassed that I didn’t know what kind of cucumbers I grew so I did some research today and found out what they were – Armenian! I thought I had purchased some type of Asian cucumber but had thrown out the seed packet last Spring. I will definitely plant them again – they were both delicious and prolific and BIG – see my previous post!
Am getting ready to put in my Fall vegetable crop – broccoli, kale, lettuce, beets and maybe some turnips. Already have two tomato plants in and my eggplant is still producing. Also have some cherry tomatoes in a pot that are still going. Of course, I have tons of herbs as always.
BTW we found out here in North Texas that Oprah is coming to the State Fair on October 12th Not sure if my cucumbers will be featured but at least I now know what variety they are! Think that would teach me to save seed packets!
Oprah called me!
Well, not Oprah herself but one of her producers called a while ago to ask me if I was the Barbara Michaels who grew the large Texas sized cucumbers! The article that Lottie wrote for the examiner a few weeks back somehow made it to the folks at Harpo! Seems they are thinking about doing a show about the Texas State Fair – they would come here and do the show onsite. She said they had heard that the fair was a lot of fun – she even knew about the fried butter. I certainly encouraged her to “come on down”!
She wanted to know all about our garden club and wanted to know if anyone else grew large vegetables. I had her call Mike Schmitt. Can you think of anyone else who had an unusual veggie this year? I think it is that Texas thing about growing the biggest! I told her about the sculpture garden at the fair and Lottie and about my blue ribbon for the relish. She asked how many times I will go to the fair and I said at least three times – with my grandchildren, my knitting friends, and my garden club! We will see if they show up. What fun that would be! Isn’t the internet amazing????
Barb
Here is the famous article by Lottie if you haven’t read it!
Right before I composted the now famous cukes I got this picture! Alex was impressed with Grammy’s cucumbers!
