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Carol and Dee talked about refreshing container plantings for fall, new veggies for the vegetable garden, a book of garden columns, and more.

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Insect of the Week

Great Black Wasp… a solitary pollinator.

Flowers:

Is it worth refreshing annuals in late summer for fall?

Vegetables:

It’s not too soon to plan for 2027.

All-America Selections Winners for 2026:

Tomato BadaBing! F1

Kale Rubybor F1

Pole Bean ‘Majesty’

Butter Lamp F1 Winter Squash

Basil Treviso -

New Varieties sent to Carol from Burpee

Akoya Small-Fruited Tomato

Sweet 150 Small-Fruited Tomato

Pick N Pop Orange Sweet Pepper

Monteverde Late Flowering basil

On the Bookshelf:

Back to the Garden by Ursula Buchan (2009) (Amazon for used copies)

Dirt:

The five plants every pollinator garden needs

Rabbit Holes:

Judi Dench’s Shakespeare: The Man Who Paid the Rent.

Carol’s blog post for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.

A Garden to Visit:

Holcomb Gardens at Butler University and the Indiana Native Plant Society (INPS)

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