@Grandmama, you're doing a lot to your yard. That should be lovely when complete. And, oooh, I adore BLTs with one's own garden tomatoes. ♥

@fantasia for your bountiful tomato crop! I just keep giving any extra garden produce of ours away.  

Nice about the grapes, Twig's / @pattertwigs-pal!  

Hoping your hips and back are feeling better now, @coracle. And I see on FB that you had the grapevine stump removed, yay!  

We have finished harvesting the veggies: I picked the last of the beans, peppers, tomatoes last week. The beets were finished the week before, mmm, so good. I harvested the plentiful yield of potatoes a few days ago, before our first more major frost. We now have to store them in sand to keep them the best they can be. They're looking great!

I have many zinnias around our potato garden, so have brought those pretty bouquets inside, plus given a lovely bunch to our older neighbour, who sees this garden of ours from his backyard to the east of us. He jumped up eagerly when he saw me coming and exclaimed with glee, "Oooh, thank you, I'll be glad to take those". I am sure he expects this every year now. And that's just fine.  

I think I mentioned earlier that for the first time in all our decades of growing tomatoes, they did not do well this year. We think the soil needs more calcium, so I have started dumping all my egg shells in the earth around the plants. This sad lack of tomatoes was disappointing, as out of all the food we grow, these are my absolute favourite. Ah well. Next year.

The floral gardens are looking grrrreat (lush and full) at the beginning of this gorgeous Autumn season. I already have plans for next spring to move a couple to places I think would be better suited for them. And we have three hostas that are not doing so well (too much sun), so are moving them this season yet to a not-so-glaring location. Next spring I will be putting those lovely bush phlox in their places.

I just recently moved homes, which means I had to give up the garden I had at my other place. However, we have a very nice garden here at our new home. I haven't had a chance to plant anything myself yet as I am still in the process of unpacking and settling in, not to mention I have a seven-week old baby who keeps me plenty occupied. However, we did discover that some things had already been planted. At the moment we have tomatoes, onions, maize, and Chinese cabbage. There's also a lime tree and a coffee tree.

Once I'm a bit settled I'd like to start up on the side of the garden that has nothing in it. I'm not sure exactly what I want to plant yet, for sure spinach and lettuce, and bell peppers. And of course, I'll get my herbal garden going, I can't live without my fresh herbs and spices. My husband also wants to get some more fruit trees. Apart from the lime tree we also have guavas and papayas, and we'd like to add to those with an orange tree and a mango tree and a lemon tree.

When it comes to non-edible plants I plan to start up a rock garden. It's been a dream of mine since I saw and fell in love with my grandma's rock garden as a young child. I've also got some rose cuttings from our old place, I hope they root so I can plant them as there are no rose bushes here. So far it's not looking too promising, but where's there's life there is hope. I'm not sure what other flowers to plant, although I do know that I want a large flower garden for the front lawn.

Anyone have any suggestions about what flowers to plant and which ones go well together?

I responded to your query on FB this past Autumn, @wolfloversk / wolfy, and I am curious what you have decided for next year. All the best with this!

@wild-rose, over our years of gardening I have experimented a lot, much of which has worked, 'though not always. Live and learn. Those reason any plants have not done well is usually because they were in the wrong location—sun versus shade, rich soil versus sandy, etc. But one or two plants have absolutely refused to cooperate, so I focus on those that do thrive. As for suggestions, back here I posted a list of what we currently grow—annuals, perennials, veggies. I like to vary the colour, size, and texture for where I place my plants. This gives nice variety. I wish you well in gardening at your new home. Keep us posted!

It feels strange posting here near mid-winter, but I have had fun with my poinsettia from Christmas 2019. This past spring, I put it outside and basically forgot about it except for watering. All the leaves turned green; some fell off. Then late this Autumn, some of the leaves began to turn back red again. Fun to see! The plant's leaves are much sparser than originally, but I am keeping it out of curiousity for how things will progress (or not ) from here on in.

Also, I dug out my amaryllis bulbs from our gardens at the end of September, and put them downstairs in the dark and cool, totally ignoring them. This should be for three months, so next week I am bringing them upstairs again and will begin to pay them some attention. Eventually, they should all sprout a stem (or two) again and bloom within a few weeks after the stem first appears. This is always really fun to watch, and very satisfying to see them come to life again. Some we will give away as gifts.  

My garden has enjoyed a bit more rain - and there is more to come, although it isn't cold.
I'm very happy to see the soft blue flowers on my 'Blue Hobbit' plants, and really excited with the little white flowers slowly emerging from what I thought must be 'green flowers' on the Oak-Leaved Hydrangea. (Search for Images of hydrangea quercifolia, if you want to see)

The self-sown pumpkins (seeds would have been in compost that I spread on vege gardens from the compost bin) are starting to need trimming back, to give the potatoes growing beside them.  And the sunflowers are from 3 feet to over 5 feet tall. Today I picked about two servings of raspberries, and I will cut leaves of silver beet for my dinner, to accompany the butter beans already picked (pale yellow, sweet-tasting and buttery). But there isn't a lot else ready. 

Posted by: @coracle

I'm very happy to see the soft blue flowers on my 'Blue Hobbit' plants

Ooh, what are "Blue Hobbit" plants? (And do they eat a lot?? )

Haha, nope! 

Have you heard of the Blue Wizards?  -  they're nothing like them. (Try googling, and select Images)

Oh, I see, it's a sea holly! I've seen them here in Britain as an ornamental flower. Very pretty and unusual, although it doesn't look like the sort of thing Sam Gamgee would grow...  

There's a little red rose bush called The Shire, which I had to buy when I saw it a few years ago. I watched for suitably named plants, to plant near it, and thought these were interesting. 

I've had to put my flower garden on hold due to a massive termite problem we've recently discovered at our house. Now we're going to have to treat the house and most of the front yard, which means digging up the plants that are already there, so no use in planting new ones until we're done. I've also moved my spice garden from the front of the house to the back garden until we're done treating.

That being said we've harvested pretty much everything our vegetable garden had to offer and after letting the soil rest a little and fertilizing it, it's time to plant again (that's why I love living in Zambia, as long as you have access to water you can literally plant all year round). This time I will plant carrots, beetroots, peas, green beans, lettuce, spinach, pumpkins, tomatoes and onions (no Zambian garden is complete without those, haha). I've already planted the sweet potatoes, the leaves are eaten here as a vegetable, they're quite tasty actually. 

I really regret not grabbing a few cassava branches from our other place to plant here...now I have to see if someone has some plants that I can get cuttings from. The cassava leave a extremely nutritious, the root isn't so bad either ?

Today I'm also going to harvest some of the limes. The lemons and oranges aren't quite ready yet so I'll wait a bit for those. 

Today on my calendar I jotted down that it's time to prune my fruit vines/bushes/trees. But today it is cold and damp and windy. And so I have decided to put this chore off a few more days.  

But it was a reminder that spring is not too far off and it's time to start thinking about green and growing things again.  

Today was so lovely. My kids, husband, and I planted spinach, onions, beets, and broccoli. Hopefully they won't have any problem with future cold temps, but I don't see anything below 30F in the forecast, so I think we should be good. 

So I'm gonna try doing some container gardening this year!

So far I've obtained:
-Strawberries
-Blueberries
-Blackberries
-Iris

Also I planted some ginger root from the grocery store and some new and old seeds I've been holding on too.  Not sure if the old ones will come up (or if some of them will even work in Texas) but I figured why not:
-Pepper (unknown variety as the label wore off)
-Brandywine Tomato
-2-3 varieties of Parsley
-Basil
-Spinach
-Jack O' Lantern Pumpkin (Obviously not planning on leaving that in a container :P)
-Cone Flower
-Hollyhock
-Shasta Daisy
-Coreopsis
-Bleeding Heart (from seeds I gathered from my mom's before I moved, I doubt it will do well this far south, but I'm too attached to the species not to try 😛 )
-Fir (basalm or douglas?  Again, doubt it will do well or that I'll keep it long term, but I had seeds saved.)
-Apple (saved seeds again... I know apple doesn't really breed true, or grow well here, but I like to experiment :P)

I got a bunch of 5 gallon and 10 gallon grow bags and I figured I'd try them this year... since they are easier to store and move than pots.  We'll find out if I like them or not.

Oh also... I got a new Pothos plant 😀  I love pothos. 

Posted by: @wolfloversk

-Shasta Daisy

Does it have a previously unknown twin called the Corin Daisy?? (and Brandywine Tomato sounds like something the Hobbits of Buckland would grow, but that's enough...)

Seriously, that sounds like a wonderful lot of things to try growing — hope they all do well!

I'm a bit limited myself when it comes to plants — I don't have any outdoor space of my own and I don't have much room indoors, but I have two lovely flowering Phalaenopsis orchids, a red-flowering Anthurium, a long-leaved Calathea, and a bonsai fig. Unfortunately I'll have to say goodbye to them all before the end of the year, as I have an overseas move coming up. I'm hoping I can find a good home for them!

I can tell some of you live in warmer climates than Minnesota seeing as how you are far ahead of me in planting! Spring is the only time of year that I regret living this far north. 
I do have 2 containers out on the deck of "winter sowing". One contains lettuce and the other is spinach and there are some tiny green sprouts showing. 🙂 The snow is gone from the garden itself, but I fully expect to get another snowfall since this is, after all, Minnesnowta. I started peppers in the basement under lights last week and am anxiously awaiting some little green sprouts there. 
Happy Gardening!