Basil, purchased seedlingsOkra, from seed. Can see little conical buds forming. The okra patch. Started these Cajun Jewel from seed, then transplanted them here. Peppers! Our once-a-week deep watering regimen has really helped with pepper productivity, I think. Poblanos! Probably my favorite pepper. Seedlings from Chuck. A wee Black Diamond eggplant. They are not as robust as the peppers. Large tomatillo plants, but few fruits that I can see. I hope they catch up because I have a lot of tomatillo recipes I want to try. A mystery tomato (top) and Amy’s basil on the bottom. I’ve been pinching it from the top.
Onions, white, red and yellowMore onions and a row of Burpee shallots. I’m letting them go to seed, I probably shouldn’t be. Echinacea, pollinator attractorPainted lady butterfly, maybe? A sad row of leeks. Winter squash has really taken off after surviving serious yellowing and attempted beetle infestation. Baby butternutBaby pumpkinAuxiliary plot of carrots, lettuce “Merlot” and a few radicchio
Turning the corner, greeted by a grove of volunteer sunflowers in the “early potato” raised bedNelson blackberry just starting to show some colorStrawberry bed, being tenderly nursed back to health after a rough bout with leaf blight last yearRaised bed of fingerlings, just starting to fall backRaspberries. We’ve been eating a small handful every morning. Some of the dye plants, getting ready to bloomGrapevine Concord grapes, still green
Almost too late for my end of month report, again! Now or never. I took these photos early, about 7:30 am, when a lot of the garden is still shaded by the big pine. The next post is an update on the fruit yard. Still have to post an update on the hoophouse and the community garden.
Approaching the garden gate past the monarda (bee balm) and the echinops (globe thistle)Tomatoes growing along the fence line Giant costata romanesca zucchini. Also in this row are a black zucchini, a patty pan squash, Farao cabbage, and an assortment of kale. Newly planted spinach bed after harvesting fingerlings. Sam carefully removed every fingerling from the soil because we have seen how they persist year after year in a bed. He dug down to the sub soil and reconstituted the bed with sticks (modified hugelkultur), leaf mulch, azomite, and garden soil. A wild mixture of carrots, beets, leeks, dill and chard. Artichoke, mystery tomato (labeled Aunt Molly’s ground cherry but not), cutting celery, cilantro past its primeFall planting in harvested Fava bean area. Arcadia broccoli, Napoli carrots, and Eros escarole. Pea trellis in back, still producing. Broccoli mostly past, but there’s one or two late season plants in this seed mix that hold promise stillLush “late potato” row with volunteer sunflowerHorseradish bed and tomato cathedral, a jungle with volunteer potatoes growing in the center aisleSunflowers growing in the flower row where they belong for once. All sunflowers were volunteers this year, I didn’t plant one. (Transplanted a few though.)Winter Squash climbing out of asparagus beds over top of chicken run. Red Kuri, butternut and Dakota Dessert. Corner trellis with cucumbers on front and green beans on back. Center has some carrots, lettuces, and kale.
