I just wanted to write 09-01-09.. Welcome to September in New England 2009 where we may actually have a week without a Hurricane Threat. Our NECN forecast shows sunshine into Labor Day. I am taking advantage of a quiet weather pattern to talk about, and hopefully, get some time in, the garden. There has been no improvement to my tomatoes, many of the vines have completely died. I left the tomatoes on the vine anyway, though I am sure they would ripen equally if I picked them on placed on the window sill.
During my last in depth discussion, my final though was ‘more on pumpkins next time’. I was going to talk about pruning the vines to possibly increase quality, perhaps at the expense of quantity. I was going to reduce the number of vines from the individual plants. But.. I never got to pruning those vines, now the pumpkins have taken over. I agree with Amy form her weekend post, pumpkins are easy to grow, but you never know how many you are going to get.
For some reason, I have one vine with a pumpkin every two feet, not very big, but very fun. Another vine, I have allowed the vine to cross to our neighbors house (the seeds I gave them did not produce).
Another vine is training up the tree, hopefully we have time to let this little guy grow big enough to give us a ‘Pumpkin Tree’.
I have news on those Rosa Rugosa Seeds.. They Grew! Well at least a few of them. Last week I was dumping out the soil in those now full of weeds pots, having given up Rosa Rugosa. Then to my surprise, some of those weeds were not weeds, they were baby Rosa Rugosa. I guess the lesson here is, if you grow Rosa Rugosa from seeds, be very patient. It took form April to August to see baby sprouts. Nest year, we start in March 
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The Daylilis, Hydrangea, and Rosa Rugosa that we pruned following the July Bloom, paid back with an August/September Bloom. Here are the examples.. now lets try for a third or fourth bloom in October. We had a late start, maybe we get a late finish to the garden season. Even though the weather rarely ‘pays back’, we can be hopeful.
I now have more tomatoes than I could ever eat, all coming at once; there’s even too many for the chipmunks and squirrels to consume. What can i do?