About a month ago we pulled a bag of potatoes out of the pantry. It was stinking and had started rotting. My daughter tossed them in the trash. I pulled them out and planted them in our garden box. Even though they were smelly, rotting and nothing we wanted in our lives I saw the potential of what they could be with a little help and love.
Be a potato.
Ate my first green bean off the bush today. Time to get back at a morning gardening session each day. Plants are threatening to explode on me!
First tomatillo husk (sometimes they bear fruit and sometimes not)
Pretty plants - I might have to divide, they’re getting crowded.
Holy moly look at my mint @anon9289869 
Other herbs and the Marvel-of-Peru coming up in the back looking good. I’ll definitely have to wrangle the mint.
Oh wow is that the mint that was at the front a few weeks back starting to show a few leaves?
I’m really wanting my lemon balm to go wild on me I love it in a tea in the evenings with chamomile.
Sure is! I looked for a lemon balm plant for didn’t find one this year. Turns out I don’t have space!
Woah! The leaves on that are huge!! 
That is one of the more visually appealing mint variety. Is that dill growing next to it?
It’s lovely tasting, too. Yup that’s dill next to it that seeded itself from last year. Sage and rosemary in the pots. Not sure if they will over-winter, but at the end of the season I’ll plant them in the ground like I did with the thyme.
I brought my lemon balm form amazon 
I loved this one!
My sage survives my winters in a large planter. My dad has had trouble with rosemary but it did survive 2 or 3 winters before it failed. I need to give it a try up here.
Today I moved my cucumber and zucchini plants to their proper pots and prepped them to vine up instead of grow sprawling across the ground. It will be an interesting experiment. I’ve already had to treat for powdery mildew with neem oil so this is just in time.
Neem oil hey? Been wondering what to use
Wow I love gardening we have 2 this year
It has worked wonders for all sorts of issues for me. I took out an infestation of aphids on another plant with it, too. I like that it’s natural. Sometimes takes more than one application but this time it took care of the powdery mildew like a boss. Just be sure to dilute and apply properly so as not to burn the plants.
Solution to excess mint: dry and use for stovetop potpourri boil after stinking up the house making a balsamic reduction! House smells great now.
Just in the wild? Cool! 
I bought and planted 3, only two came up.
Hope they will bloom!
Not exactly…there’s a house along our walking route where the owner tends to a vast and beautiful flower and foliage garden and he had put a sign that said “free dahlia tubers,” just piled up by the side of the road. So we changed our walk to come back that way and I got a dog poop bag and armful of tubers 
and carried them back home. I read that in our zone they can be better grown in pots to be collected after the season and kept inside dormant over the winter so I planted them here:
I hope they grow fast for some fall flowers!
Aha! What a nice gesture!
I have mine in a pot too. Planted 3, 2 came up and nr 3 was rotten.
Darn those critters You can’t tell from the photo, but there are shoots coming up!
