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.
