Before I spend the next three days sitting at an arts festival across town, I thought I’d better update you on the garden progress. Everything is doing well but I will miss the first picking of the beans. Some are ready right now, so I enticed a neighbor to come and pick some right now…I guess the deer have found her garden and made short work of her bean patch! By Sunday, there will be more to pick!
So, starting on the patio…I pulled the last planting of radishes. Bert will clean out the roots, add more soil and get it ready to replant. I may wait a week or two…I have several bags of radishes in the refrigerator so I’m set for salads for now.
Radish beds ready for a refresh!
The Little Gem lettuce has been excellent. It grows quickly and stays crunchy in the fridge. Here are some just making heads (almost ready to cut) and the next round just beginning.
The sugar snap peas are filling out. I don’t see the plants surviving much longer in this heat. The peas are delicious!
The yellow pear tomato plants are taller than me! Lots of tomatoes but not turning color yet. We’ll have a bunch!
The zucchini plants are growing well. So far, we’ve eaten about 6 zucchini but we’re picking them when they are small. No avalanche yet!
The flowers are starting to bloom and they’ll be a pretty addition to the back yard.
Remember the rose bush in a pot that was getting chomped by roving bunnies? Bert put it up on the picnic table and it is blooming just fine! I’m trying to keep up with the spent blooms. More blossoms to come!
Up in the garden on the hill, the lavender has exploded into color. The bees are very happy!
Some of the green and yellow beans are ready right now, thus my frantic call to my neighbor. Hopefully, the rest can hold on until Sunday when I’m available to pick them.
The carrots finally look like they’ll produce. Beside them on the left of the picture is the next planting of beans. They won’t be ready for a few weeks but that’s fine!
And then there are the tomatoes! Lots of green tomatoes!
However, when I looked closely, I noticed about half of the plant tops had been stripped of leaves! Yikes! Did the deer hop the fence? I was so upset I called Bert to come look. Turns out if it had been deer, the stem would have been chomped off too. The leaves were just stripped off. Turns out the culprit is a giant tomato WORM! They were even taking bites out of some of the tomatoes! Bert will spray tomorrow after the rain tonight and hopefully that will end the snack bar fiasco!
And finally…the glorious Echinacea have re-seeded themselves for several years and are spectacular! The bees and butterflies are busy. Enjoy!
