Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - October 2011

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2011.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana the first two weeks of October have been some of the best "summer" days we've had all year.

Out in the vegetable garden, it looks like summer with a volunteer petunia growing in a fallow bed where lettuce and radishes grew earlier in the spring.

The marigolds look as fresh as