[Diana in Wisconsin]

Random Farm & Garden Shots

'Soroya' Sunflower. AAS Winner, very little pollen so they make a nice cut flower. Throws out a lot of branches, so you get a ton of flowers off of one big plant.

Still Life with Sweet Corn. Stopping at our local Farm Market stand, today. It's probably Indiana or Illinois Sweet Corn at this point, but that's OK.

One of the corn fields, looking East. It was way past knee-high this 4th of July.

If I could take an aerial shot of the farm land around us, it would look like this picture, all planted in contour strips to help stop erosion. It's really quite lovely. Our farm has been a working farm since 1900, however, practices for preventing erosion at the time were not really understood. Therefor, we have a ton of rich, black soil in the pasture downhill from the farm, which we haul up for garden beds and landscaping. Couldn't ask for more!

[Califreak]

I’d love to be surrounded by farms. We used to have a lot of orchards around here but they’ve been replaced by cookie cutter houses and vineyards.

That’s a nice sunflower. I planted russian mammoth like I do every year but there is nothing mammoth about them.

They’re still pretty but I miss having the dinner plate sized flower heads.

Corn ears are forming in my yard and I made the first fresh tomato salsa of the season a few days ago.

[tubebender]

Thanks for posting these Diana. The lift my spirits...

[MomwithHope]

We used to grow tithonia for cut flowers. Smaller sunflower but bushy and lots of flowers.