Flibby has my camera way up and over in Oregon so I haven't posted any pictures this week. Poppy to the rescue! She went out and got some update pictures for me... hence, the far more artistic nature of these pictures than what you will usually find on this blog. Thanks, Poppy! You can click to enlarge any and/or every picture if you like.
Here we have our peas and beans growing up and over and down again on the trellis.
Peppers of several varieties coming right along.
This is my 'Three Sisters' garden again. Weird thing. The beans are WAY taller than the corn. I didn't even plant the squash yet because it will consume the corn in a couple of weeks. I can't say for sure yet but I think the 'Three Sisters' is a flop.
Speaking of corn, look at this!
Tomatoes!!!
My strawberries are still producing!
More tomatoes!!!
Up close tomatoes!!!
From on high tomatoes!!!
Mammoth Sweet Peas...
The younger beans are really starting to climb. I'm doing a little succession planting because I am a gardener and that's what gardeners do.
See? Beans! What'd I tell ya?!
Squash!
...and more squash!
... and still more squash!
This is my herb garden. I don't really know what to do with all these herbs but I'm reading up on that. My library card is my friend.
Mr. P bought me a peanut plant as part of my gardening birthday present. I've never grown peanuts before so this will be interesting.
Here is a larger view where you can see how everything has progressed in the last few weeks. Compare and contrast with this.
And, did I mention I was growing tomatoes? 47 plants to be precise.
More squash on the other side of the garden. This is to throw off the wily squash borer. I read this trick in a book.
My pickling cucumbers are growing so fast you can almost stand in the garden and watch them shimmy up the poles!
See what I mean?
Last but not least is Poppy's artistic portrait of a honeysuckle bloom. Our bees love these honeysuckles! The droplets hanging off the bloom are rather eye catching, wouldn't you say? Great picture, Poppy!
Maybe tomorrow we can feature a sunny morning in the garden. A girl can dream!
7 comments:
Looking mighty fine Lady Why!
Can't wait to get some of those fresh herbs. I have a recipe today that would be enhanced greatly with fresh herbs.
Nana
I hope you are learning how to can all those tomatoes!!
love your garden space!
Peanuts: We are growing them in a baby pool. Didn't buy a "plant". Just bought regular, unroasted peanuts from the store. It is the same.
Three sisters garden: The Pilgrims did this too, but did you wait until the corn was a certain height before planting the beans? That is what you are supposed to do and that is what we will be doing.
We will have tons of tomatoes too but I have my canning jars and supplies ready ;o)
Beth
Hi Beth,
I waited two weeks which was CLEARLY not long enough but that was the instruction I had from a book. I was to wait another two weeks and put in squash around that. But, considering how HUGE my squash leaves are, I decided I was going to wait until my corn is at least as tall as I am to plant it. That may be a little late for this season, but then again, my squash seems to be growing fast. I am about to plant another round of corn since I'm doing them in succession. Plus I'm about to put in some purple hull peas. At that point, my garden will be fully planted except for the tomato cuttings that I'm rooting to put in the bed where I now have carrots planted. When the carrots are done, I'm going to plant my tomato cuttings and see what happens.
It's all just one big experiment!
Beans grow fast once they come up! A leftover seed from last year decided to sprout in one of our beds before we'd planted anything. We transplanted it to the bed where we were planning to put the beans...we planted this year's beans on both sides of it and by now they've caught up and are all the same size! I still can't figure out how last year's bean managed to sprout after we added a new load of topsoil to the beds and turned it in.
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