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Good Morning Everyone!  Ninkasi has a beautiful blue pot with plants and stones on her garden patio. We all have admired it for a long time. About a year ago, I put out the idea of doing a Blue Pot Diary. And this is it!  Your pots, neighbors’ pots, pots you see in stores, outside or inside pots. If you have blue pots for cooking your garden and/or farmers market hauls, post a photo. 

See those toads in the heading photo, they’re sitting on MY blue pot. It’s very tall and has no holes in the bottom, It was a gift from a gardener who was thinning out their gardening stuff including all sorts of pots….

SMGB September 2025 My Blue Pot

So….I turned the pot into a pedestal for the toads. They are from the wonderful Hafner’s Garden Center here. Mr. CNY did the arrangement and I promised I’d give him credit. He gets a kick out of being mentioned. Today he’s up in the NYS North Country playing with his brother’s band at an early Oktoberfest. Hoping to get you a photo.

SMGB September 2025 My Blue Pot and Toads

Neighbors have blue pots! These next 2 photos were all in the same yard.

SMGB September 2025 Neighborhood 1 Blue Pot

SMGB September 2025 Neighborhood 2 Blue Pot

And a blue pot with flower arrangement at my nearby food cooperative. It’s plastic but a nice color. And the plants are a nice coordinating color.

SMGB September 2025 Co-op Blue Pot

Can’t leave without a garden haul photo. This was earlier in August. Things are really winding down. Lots more cherry sized tomatoes and a few zucchini. Those were a real wash out this summer.  I hear stories of an abundance of zukes but not in my garden. I will have a LOT of rattlesnake pole bean seeds for next year. I missed a bunch and they grew huge. Letting them dry on the vines. Near the end of next week is supposed to be a night time temperature dip into the high 30’s I’ll be picking anything left except the kale and collards.

SMGB Garden August 24, 2025

Post your blue pot photos! Even if it’s a multi shade of blue colored blue pot. I think the only other color that’s as popular is the orange clay. 

I’m going early to the big farmers market here. I should be back around late morning.

Thanks as always for dropping by. We hope we provide some respite from all that’s going on out there. 💖

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