What a hot day! You know it's bad when the heat advisory goes until 11 pm... HOT! The best part is that the air conditioning is back! The capacitor needed replaced, a simple little 10 minute fix after a couple days of 90+ degree heat in the house! SO THANKFUL for a/c!
The plants are also struggling a bit in the heat, especially since we are NOT daily waterers. I think I take the survival of the fittest mentality to gardening-- if you have to be watered every day, you don't belong!
Here's what's been happening:
EARLY JULY
blooming leeksaving for seeds
traveler tomato!so weird- you can pick off chunks to eat as you walk around
tiny tim tomato
the veg garden
our friends' garden
Mike helped them build this, and they let him plant stuff
that we didn't have room for, since the community
gardens sold out for the year!
fennel
delphinium
daisies
blueberriesbirds got them all again this year! oh well.
Gerbera daisy
garlic, now hanging to dryMID JULY
the first of the ripe tomatoes from the gardenotherwise only had a few from pots so far
a shady veg garden is just not as productive, especially early on!
strawberries!haven't had fruit since early summer,
but are starting to go into production again
banana peppersjust had these in dinner!
chervena chushka peppers can't wait!
these are my favorite
pot of calendula and banana peppers
the front yard gardenjust don't have the time to work on it
to keep it always blooming!
Love these persian carpet zinniasperfect with a little fun-colored coleus
one of my containersthe third coleus died :(
zucchini!!I love zucchini
this is an heirloom round variety I haven't had before.
Last year they got about this big,
then the squash vine borer got 'em.
HOPING for a small harvest
before they all die again this year!
Garage side garden
coneflowersso pretty
my beautiful container gardensI'm amazed at how long these big, plastic containers
can go without being watered
but now the plants are starting to show the effects of being dry-
better work on that daily watering habit!
RECIPE FROM THE GARDEN
Cooking from the garden is a blast, but I don't have a lot of time and energy to make fancy thingsfrom scratch. To make a delicious garden pasta salad, pick herbs, peppers, tomatoes, or whatever you have from your garden:
Cook up a boxed cold pasta salad mix:
And add vegetables:
I love this stuff! Really good way to enjoy your produce, even if you only have a small handful of a harvest from your pots on the patio, like I do!
SEED SOURCES
In case you were wondering where else we got seeds from this year:
Amishland Seeds
(most of our tomato seeds came from here)
Botanical Interests
(got our zucchini, lettuce, beets, carrots, fava beans here)
Seed Savers
(beans, peppers, flowers, lettuce, kale, etc came from here)
can go without being watered
but now the plants are starting to show the effects of being dry-
better work on that daily watering habit!
RECIPE FROM THE GARDEN
Cooking from the garden is a blast, but I don't have a lot of time and energy to make fancy thingsfrom scratch. To make a delicious garden pasta salad, pick herbs, peppers, tomatoes, or whatever you have from your garden:
Cook up a boxed cold pasta salad mix:
And add vegetables:
I love this stuff! Really good way to enjoy your produce, even if you only have a small handful of a harvest from your pots on the patio, like I do!
SEED SOURCES
In case you were wondering where else we got seeds from this year:
Amishland Seeds
(most of our tomato seeds came from here)
Botanical Interests
(got our zucchini, lettuce, beets, carrots, fava beans here)
Seed Savers
(beans, peppers, flowers, lettuce, kale, etc came from here)
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