My little man in the garden

I never finished cleaning up the garden like I talked about here and it turned out to be a good thing.  I thought I'd share some pictures of what's going on in the garden in mid-October.  Mostly my little man getting into stuff.  He's learning to walk and the garden is a good place to fall down in, poke at things and learn a lot.  I am very laid back about "germs" and "dirt" probably to a fault in this case.  As in, I don't even think about it.  Oh well, lots of farmers had lots of children grow up just fine. Besides, he hasn't eaten that much dirt.....

In the nasturtiums.   A dear friend gave me a ton of seed and they've done really well. Also, these smell lovely when you walk past them?  I've planted nasturtiums for years and never noticed them having a sweet smell before but these do.

 

 

My favorites dahlias, truly.

This seed tray has been sitting out there all season long.  We spent a good 10 minutes sticking straw into the plant cells.

I should probably harvest that parsley.

No one is happier than a little boy sat down in a potato patch with a stick and told to "go to town". 

We brought a big armload of flowers with us when we came inside. I am really, really going to miss all this when we're snowed in come December.