The vegetable garden is thriving. We have kept up with weeding and watering, and our hard work has paid off.
Although the radishes produced lots of leaves and flowers, we harvested just one radish. But the lettuce, Swiss chard, and mixed greens are plentiful. The kohlrabi and beets are also growing nicely.
Tomatoes, peppers, squash, cabbage, and tomatillo are all flowering and forming fruit. A few weeks more, and this section of the garden will be ready to harvest. The yellow wax beans will be ready to harvest tomorrow!
The strawberry bed was surprisingly weak this spring. We planted them last fall during a drought, so they got a poor start. The continued drought this spring made it tough for them to thrive, despite our sprinkling. They are just starting to spread throughout the bed. We have ordered more strawberries to fill in the empty spots this fall.
The herb garden has done fairly well so far. Parsley, basil, thyme, tarragon, chives, sorrel, and oregano have been bonuses to our salads and soups.
This bed has a tall row of Moonwalker sunflowers that are expected to grow ten feet tall. The beans next to them did not fill in well and must be replanted. A few plants are producing flowers. The cucumbers now have flowers.
The raspberries are just a week away from a large summer harvest. They look better than they did the last few years.
The grape vine also has made a strong comeback this year. We have harvested the leaves and stuffed them with rice, beans, and herbs for two meals now.
We have high hopes this summer and fall for big harvests of pears. The fruit is thick on this tree, and the other is equally full.
Our one surviving apple tree has produced fruit for the first time in several years. We owe its plenitude this summer to a winter pruning of its branches, as well as of the apricot trees that were shading it.
And here are some of the apricots that are ripening.
Although the radishes produced lots of leaves and flowers, we harvested just one radish. But the lettuce, Swiss chard, and mixed greens are plentiful. The kohlrabi and beets are also growing nicely.
Tomatoes, peppers, squash, cabbage, and tomatillo are all flowering and forming fruit. A few weeks more, and this section of the garden will be ready to harvest. The yellow wax beans will be ready to harvest tomorrow!
The strawberry bed was surprisingly weak this spring. We planted them last fall during a drought, so they got a poor start. The continued drought this spring made it tough for them to thrive, despite our sprinkling. They are just starting to spread throughout the bed. We have ordered more strawberries to fill in the empty spots this fall.
The herb garden has done fairly well so far. Parsley, basil, thyme, tarragon, chives, sorrel, and oregano have been bonuses to our salads and soups.
This bed has a tall row of Moonwalker sunflowers that are expected to grow ten feet tall. The beans next to them did not fill in well and must be replanted. A few plants are producing flowers. The cucumbers now have flowers.
The raspberries are just a week away from a large summer harvest. They look better than they did the last few years.
The grape vine also has made a strong comeback this year. We have harvested the leaves and stuffed them with rice, beans, and herbs for two meals now.
We have high hopes this summer and fall for big harvests of pears. The fruit is thick on this tree, and the other is equally full.
Our one surviving apple tree has produced fruit for the first time in several years. We owe its plenitude this summer to a winter pruning of its branches, as well as of the apricot trees that were shading it.
And here are some of the apricots that are ripening.
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