Tomatoes (32 plants), haricots verts (3 rows), zucchini, sweet corn, eggplants, pole beans, winter squash, rhubarb, cucumbers, and cilantro...
...it's all growing and just starting to produce. It's so green! We are going to have a hard time keeping up with the harvest, I predict. August will be another busy month. September too, probably.
We never picked the artichokes; we usually don't. We just let them turn into these pretty purple flowers. The photo above was taken on a nice morning just after sunrise.
So green and healthy! That partial shade from the trees must protect the plants quite a lot from the scorching sun. We are having to use fleece to shade tender young plants and it's not really satisfactory. How are the three sisters behaving themselves? P.
ReplyDeleteHi Pauline, the photo was taken looking north, so the garden does get a lot of sunshine. What do you mean by fleece? The three sisters seem to be getting along swimmingly. There aren't many ear so corn yet, but the beans are climbing the corn stalks and the winter squashes are really growing.
DeleteI just love the look of your vegetable garden, so healthy, enjoy your coming harvest. Jaana
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jaana. As long as the weather stays dry, I think we'll be in good shape. If it goes damp, the plants will suffer because they are pretty crowded together.
DeleteMy spuds and toms have blight. I've harvested the spuds, not too much lost. Today I have to deal with the tomatoes. I think I will probably lose all of them. Boo.
ReplyDeleteSusan, what do you mean by blight? Mildew? Some of our tomatoes have a few brown leaves — I spent some time trimming them off this morning. I hope all the green tomatoes we have on the vines will ripen and we'll get a good crop.
DeleteMeanwhile, our bay laurel has some kind of disease or pest. It appears to be a type of leaf curl. I wonder if it isn't a mite of some kind and whether the exceptionally mild winter we had isn't the root (ha ha) cause. I don't know whether to treat the bush with a pesticide or just wait it out.
Lush!
ReplyDeleteYour garden is beautiful. Gardens are like eye candy to me- a major joy of summer.
ReplyDeleteI would like to have that garden but I don't have green fingers as you.
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