I have lots of garden pictures for you to go “Oooooh, pretty!” over, but not much time to talk about them. Everything is growing well, I have lots more green tomatoes, and we have a new perennial bed in the front. Here’s the pics:
New beds:
Various flowers from new bed:
My funky potato plants actually had some cool flowers and some of it actually fruited. Don’t eat the potato fruit, it’s poisonous just like any other green part of the potato plant. Here’s some pictures:
A few visitors:
Toms and other stuff:
Stupice:
I LOVE the flower clusters on the Blondkopfchen ( Little Blond Girl):
More mutant sunflowers. The cages are 6 feet tall.
Cukes:
Peppers:
Peas:
Pole bean plants (no flowers yet):
Lot’s to do, but lots of fun! I really need to take a few hours and weed everything thoroughly. I’m going to nip the growing buds off of the beans soon, since they’ve reached the top of their cages. The garlic is probably a week or two away from harvest, and the potatoes aren’t far behind. I’m thinking about planting a fall crop of lettuce, spinach, and radishes when those beds are cleared out. Since I’m doing the organic thing, I’m also thinking about a winter crop of clover and rye as a “green” manure to enrich the soil. More on that later.
Mike
July 31st, 2008 at 6:54 am
Oooh! Pretty!
Good for you for spacing your perennials properly. I can never do that, because they look so lonely, then they end up all overgrown and I have to move stuff. I can also never grow lupines. Just you wait. This perennial thing will grow on you (ha!). Next you (or maybe Vicki) will want a rock garden. Then a pond. Then you’ll try (and fail) to grow Meconopsis betoncifolia. You’ve started down that path…
All this rain has made everything go crazy. I have piles of lovely green tomatoes. My cucumbers are best ever! They’ve taken over a whole bed (sadly, including my soybeans). Everything is fantastic, except the leeks, which I think I got in a little too late.
Can’t wait to see the pics of the lovely ripe tomatoes.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I don’t know if we’re going to have much luck with the lupines, either; right now, two out of three of them are under aphid attack. If they don’t make it, I’ll probably replace them with some more coneflower or black-eyed susan (I don’t have a lot of patience for finicky flowers, sadly…).