The Veggies

I took my phone to the garden this evening after I side-dressed everything that needed it. Earlier today I string-trimmed too, trying to keep ahead of the weeds, which are growing like,  well, weeds. So here's a look at what's doing what. 

The boxes are future mulch. I stripped off all the tape first, before carting them out here. Once in place, I will cover them with straw.

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The experimental potatoes.  I just laid them in a trench and covered them with straw. As the tops emerged, I just kept adding more straw. Supposedly the potatoes will grow in the straw, instead of in the ground. So far? I don't know, haven't looked!

We have lots of cherry tomatoes! Now, I only bought 8, I think, 4 yellow pear and 4 red, but what I have seems to be 4 round yellow and quite a number of red! I like cherry maters, but this may be far too many. And where are the nice big round red tomatoes I thought I planted? There are some, true, but not as many as there should be. That's the down side of buying plants instead of raising them, I guess.

The chard and kale are looking ragged. They do not like this heat. Neither do I.

Looking toward the upper end of the garden. 

Hiding in there is a deep purple pepper. After a slow, almost stunted start, the peppers are looking amazing. 

The remains of the cabbages, and the broccoli. I just harvest more sprouts this morning. This weekend i will pull thr cabbage and plant something else, not sure what yet. That's butternut squash upper left, with horseradish behind it.

The zucchinin is doing terribly. I have no idea why. I planted these at the same time as the yellow squash which is doing fine. I hope the fertilizer i added tonight will help. I have never had trouble with zucchini before.

One side of the cucumbers arch, with celery in the foreground. The celery is also struggling in the heat.

An overachiever in the corn patch! The corn is getting ears now.

The other side of the cucumbers arch. 

Yellow squash. It is up to my shoulders almost! We are getting some nice small squash now.

As you can see below, the squash is under the arch that was supposed to be covered with lima beans. There are a few limas growing quite well, but I had terrible luck getting them to germinate. I planted three times. In front right are the carrots which are doing well so far, and peppers in front middle of the photo. 

An odd thing this year is that the un-mulched tomatoes look better and healthier than the mulched ones. The other difference is that I tilled this soil, but the mulched ones were planted without tilling. Hmmm....

See the difference in color? This is the mulched patch.  

The rattlesnake beans are really taking off. Although you can't really tell from the photo, they are also on an arch.

These are the candy roaster squash. Quinn sent me the seeds for these. They are on a stout piece of wire fence but I think they will soon cover it and spread at will!

Purple beans on top, a few flowers in the center, waiting for straw 

My late squash, just a couple plants.

Looking back down the garden.

The dill is happy under the cucumber arch.

That's about it. We have pulled the lettuce, radishes and spinach. I planted more lettuce but the tiny seedlings burned up. Rhubarb chard has come up, though, and is doing well.

It's less than we usually plant, as most years we have at least one other garden, but I think this will provide plenty for this year, and allow us to "eat down" our stockpiles in cellar and freezers.

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