The weather is really heating up now, and many of the plants in the garden are thriving. The buttercrunch lettuce can be seen in the first two pictures. Amazed it has not started bolting yet. At any time I can go out and pick some, its really nice to have that. Amazed the bugs have not gone after the lettuces more than they have. I guess thats a good thing.. lol
Last year the lettuces did not do as well, we got an early start this year and has been given much greens.
I plan on letting them bolt and drop seeds, hopefully they will come back next year. Some of our other lettuces did that so maybe the buttercrunch can as well.
The arugula lettuce has bolted and will hopefully drop seeds as well. Hopefully the dirt in the beds do not settle to much more and I wont need to add dirt again. Letting those seeds come up.
Sweet potato vines are coming up, so hopefully they are growing some nice spuds under the dirt.
Something has been eating the brussel sprouts in the raised beds.
Awhile back we removed some of the brussel sprouts from the beds to make space. I put them in the ground and happy to see them growing.
Looking like the garlic should be done soon.
The music hardneck garlic looks done to me, I think its time to pull them.
The bottom leaves are dying back, so I think its time.
Pole beans are taking over the trellis.
I see them producing flowers, so soon we should have bean pods.
They have made their way up to the top, soon they will come down the other side.
Cauliflower is doing well, they seem to handle the heat better than our potted plants. I guess the dirt insulates them better from the extreme heat.
The carrots are coming up as well, slower than the radish. We got to pick some of those already.
Chard is doing great, its huge!
I wonder if its any good letting it get so big. Or if I have to keep it small.
Bush beans are coming up as well, these do not require any growing support.
We can see bean pods already forming. I really like beans, they keep growing long after the peas stop which is nice.
I had four of them but they did not plant well and died back. Next year I will direct sow these.
Thornless blackberries are coming back after being transplanted.. happy to see them alive.
Horseshoe beds are full of melons.
Saw one so far, but I bet there are more into that vine patch.
Got both watermelon and cantaloupes growing in the horseshoe bed.
Wow, compared to last year they are doing great. I think we overwatered them last year.. this year we are doing our best to just let the rains do the work. But ready to water them if we get a week long drought.
Hah we got one trying to escape.
Broccoli came up and gave us a couple crowns, but I will let the rest bolt and drop their seeds to hope they come up next year.
Starting these early was key.. we started them in April this year, last year we started in June.. too late.. lol
Sorry about the messy garden, my focus has been going towards building the upcoming garlic area. Along with getting the infrastructure in place to support it (solar and well). So much of my time has been going toward that and not pulling weeds.. lol
