I took a couple photos in the garden this morning. It's a jungle out there! I hope to get more photos this evening. I usually take garden photos in the evening since the light is better, so hopefully things won't be all wilted down from today's heat. These two beds in front of the chicken house are doing great! The front bed is Patty Pan squash, and a few salad slicing cucumbers in the back corner on a trellis. The back bed is three Cherokee Purple tomato plants, and three zucchini plants. These beds are always great producers, since they're protected from the southern winds by the chicken house. I have a late-planted black cherry tomato in the blue tub at the end of the raised bed. It's growing beautifully, and I can't WAIT for those little tomatoes!
The tomato plants are doing well this year. And that makes me wish I'd planted more! I have a couple of volunteer tomato plants that are completely LOADED with blooms right now. One of them is right in the front/center of this photo. There are so many blooms on the plant! I'll snap a detail photo later so you can see all the blooms ... it's crazy, really!
You can also see the pumpkin plant has started taking over the yard, and behind that you can see the cucumber bed has completely grown out into the grass as well. There's a 6' tall yellow pear tomato plant in the large aluminum trough towards the back of the garden, which is now so tall I can no longer reach the top of the plant without a ladder. It's loaded with blooms as well, so I hope this weekend's heat doesn't ruin the possibility of fruit setting.
Stay tuned for more! *grin*
If you can sqeeze enough water out of the faucet to keep things alive long enough for a harvest that would be lovely but maybe you should think about pinching back some of the blooms to allow the plant to set fruit instead of blossoms? It may be to much of a good thing? Over stimulating could be a bad thing.....I know when I get over stimulated it's hard to do anything with me unless I get more coffee! Just sayin'.....Love, Dad
Posted by: Dan Wight | June 28, 2013 at 07:19 AM
Well it looks like you saved some from the grasshoppers! WOW everything looks so lush and FAR ahead of mine. We might get some zuc's this weekend. It has been very hot and humid. Mostly weeds growing! Gotta get out and pull them this weekend. Looks like the weather will finally cooperate, too! The poor peas really don't like heat and they got off to a poor start. (in a bit late because of wet, then BAD bunnies kept nipping them off.) Fingers crossed that we get any. Can you grow peas there?
Have a fun and relaxing weekend. hugs...
Posted by: carol dee | June 28, 2013 at 06:02 AM
I can't believe how much you grow, do you have a market stand? I don't know how you could consume all of that! I am trying to figure out how to grow jelly beans, my favorite vegetable, although they don't sauté well! ha!
hope your foot is healing well! xo..sherry
ps...hope you get some rain too. we are in Arizona, and haven't seen a drop since we got here 6 weeks ago!
Posted by: sherry vogt | June 28, 2013 at 12:06 AM
Really incredibly beautiful!! I'm so impressed. XOXOXO
Posted by: Jeanne H | June 27, 2013 at 09:53 PM