Well, mama is a bit sad because today she picked one of her last tomatoes and just look at the difference between her little pipsqueak and the last of her neighbor’s jewels.
And not only that, it’s time to pull up most of the exhausted plants in the garden and where will I snooze? In the asparagus plants? No way, Jose, because I would itch all day and all night the way anthros do when they touch those frilly fronds. Who’d ever think that lovely slim spears will come up in the spring to grace an omelette?
And this is the stuff she’s putting on the dirt where, excuse me, I happen to like to dig! I mean have you ever had to dig in HORSE MANURE? Well, it better be worth it for the fava beans that are going in just as soon as the moon is full and then waning, which is what our Catalan neighbor advises and mama listens to him. Here is HIS garden, still bursting with everything imaginable, including some pretty amazing lettuces that are going to his chickens.
That’s some salad patch!
Well, he gives us some, too, and now mama is going to turn those big green ugly things he gave her into jelly to go with manchego…num, num.
I wince at quince!
And her jelly jars arrived so the hot pepper stuff is on the march, too.
But there is the last rose of summer, valiantly blooming for us, and frankly, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s going to be planted in that horsy stuff besides fava beans.
At least she didn’t bring Pomponette into the garden to…well…you know.
“Hey, I’m better than that bought stuff! Why do you think your neighbor’s garden is so incredible? Yeah, that was MY doing!”
“Oh, Pomponette, take a hike!”
As for me, I’m taking a nap…
Pomponette “covers” your duties whilst you nap Loulou, 🙂
You would love Pomponette…a mule, not a horse but I thought it would be okay to raise her station in life.
Did your neighbor grow you some catnip for you, Loulou?
The mom will be pulling up her flowers this weekend, too. But she has some pretty mums!
Pretty mums for the pretty mum.
Nice garden, not a weed in it. I love the photo of you napping- so cute 🙂
Oh, boy, if you want to see nap photos, just you wait! Thank you…
Don’t blame you for napping. Enjoy the last of the summer veggies.
Well, if I nap until that dog food arrives, I’ll be Rip Van Loulou
Now we have to settle for snuggling into fuzzy blankets and cuddling with our humans to get good and cozy through the fall and Winter…
And we have to get our tomatoes from the store.
Keep warm…
Noodle and crew
OH, NO, store-boughten….as mama’s granny used to say just for fun. Mama does find a few every now and then on her last branches.