They Are Busting Out

 

Almost all the garlic is ready to harvest.

Hot peppers for Murph.

I am trying ever so hard not to sneak and pick some potatoes.

More little seedless cukes.

The tomatoes tree has about five tomatoes on it.

We might get a little bit of lettuce and maybe even some tomatoes from the suckers I planted.

peas, basil, and Swiss chard

Lots of lettuce.

eggplant

Lots of little sun-sugar tomatoes

Ahhhhhhh

Peppers

and more peppers

cucumbers

Can you guess?

Thinking pumpkin?

For sure pumpkin.

yellow longneck squash

zucchini

peppers

onions

sun sugar cherry tomatoes

lunchbox pepper

sunflowers and Joe Pye weed (actually a flower)

More of Murph's hot peppers.

eggplant

Five zucchinis are growing on this one plant!

Bishop's crown sweet pepper

Mr. Garlic checking on his crop.

Morning Walk

 

I found some Jewelweed which is great if you are allergic to poison ivy.  Now much to my family's dismay I can make my own mixture.

I am hoping that this mystery plant is a pumpkin.

Still have no clue what this one is.  Wonder if it will bloom?

Two pumpkins? I can only dream.

They might be a little later getting ripe but they are tasty.

Mark has started to harvest the garlic.  He hangs it in the garage to dry out.  Man, does it smell amazing!

The Black-eyed Susan Vine is finally liking her home.

There is Mr. Garlic himself.

One of these is not like the other.

I was a little concerned about the shade of the zucchini and yellow squash.  So I decided to give them a little trim.

So now those bees can get in there and do their thing and the veggies now can soak up all that good sunshine.

Look at all those precious little yellow long-neck squash.

Oh and forgot...we are growing diamonds too.  Not really just catching rainwater in the flowers.

Veggies Are Coming Right Along

My mouth is beginning to water!

 

Surprises Come In Threes Around Here

Had no idea that Mark was going to take me out to breakfast at our favorite bagel place. Surprise #1

 

Surprise #2 Tomatoes growing in the marigolds all around the yard.  I picked the most healthy one out...

...and planted then directly is the raised bed.  Did you know that you could do that?  It works!  This is my second year doing it.

Number 3 was a huge sucker that I pulled off the Blue Ridge Mountian tomato.  It looked like an actual small tomato plant.

It went directly into the bed.  I forgot to water them in so the next time I looked at them they all looked really down and out.  I watered and talked to them really sweet and they began to perk up.  Little did Mark know any of this so he pulled out the Blue Ridge and tossed it into the bushes.  Long story short...I scrounged around and found it and put some magic dust on the stem and put it back in the ground.  I will give the prognosis in a few days.  

After A Hard Rain

 

The Corn Crib Garden

The Goat Pen Garden

Squash Alley

The Goat Pen Garden

The Potting Bench Garden

Overview of The Corn Crib Garden and The Goat Pen Garden.

The Potting Bench Garden

The Mystery Plants Garden

Strawberry Fields

Bird's eye view of the Goat Pen Garden and the Potting Bench Garden.