Summer Sun

Mostly everything is growing like crazy, with the early hot weather and lots of rain. The rhubarb totally failed this year. The early heat made it bolt, and with the ongoing heat and sun, it never recovered. I guess I picked too open a spot for it. Maybe I'll move it next spring. Maybe.

Meanwhile, the hydrangeas, knock outs, tiger lilies, boltonia, etc. are blooming and blooming. Peas and watermelons are too. If only the weeds weren't doing just as well!




I've been enjoying the CSA produce - radishes, summer squash, lettuce, poc choi, lamb's quarters, garlic, and rainbow chard this week - while waiting for my own to come in. Also visited Jungle Jim's last Saturday, so the frig is full. I need to get cooking!

Everything off to a good start...

The veggie garden is doing so well, I am going to be forced to thin. I know it makes for a healthier, more successful garden, but it just feels wrong to pull out perfectly healthy plants. Some can be eaten, though. Munched on some pea shoots tonight. They taste just like peas :)


In this year's little garden we have tomatoes across the back, mini-watermelons, peppers, chard, peas, and dwarf zucchini through the middle row, and lettuce interspersed with marigolds in the front.

Deer are supposed to be repulsed by marigolds. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. This is actually a test of my wacky deer, who seem to seek out all the "deer resistant" plants first. Having learned not to rely on purely natural deterrents, note the garden is encircled by cages, trellises, and a removable screen across the front (removed for the picture). The only thing they can easily munch will be the marigolds, and they'll scratch their little noses on the way out. Who me, spiteful?


With any luck, I'll have a good crop of berries, too. Plenty of wild strawberries among them, if the bunnies leave me any.