Hello, hivers and garden lovers!
So, the end of July has come, as I write this, it's the evening of July 30th.
July has been a pretty good month for the garden here in the upper great lakes region. We've had some dry weather which required watering the gardens, but for the past 2 weeks we've gotten a decent amount of rain. This always helps the garden more than watering it, but you can't always depend on the rain.
Since this post is basically "show and tell" for the garden, I'll get right to it. First, a picture of the main garden. Between the squash vines covering half of everything, and all the tomato plants, it kind of looks like a jungle out there.
We'll take a look at the tomato plants first. There's a lot of big green tomatoes on the plants right now. I'm just waiting for them to start getting ripe.
These are the tomato plants in the low raised bed.
I planted the "Pink Lady" runner beans late, they're starting to flower nicely now.
The yellow squash plants are starting to produce a lot of nice sized squash now.
The bean plants in the raised bed are producing really well now, lots of beans on the plants. I'm going to have to pick again if it doesn't rain tomorrow.
The carrots seem to be doing pretty well. I did some thinning a couple of weeks ago to give the plants more space to make carrots.
Here's a picture of the borage. It's continuing to flower. I grow it to attract the bees. They seem to really enjoy it.
Dill is another one of those interesting plants that will seed it's self every year, with dill plants coming up the following year in odd and unexpected places. This is a few of the dill plants that I let grow this year.
Now, on to the container garden. Most of what I planted in the containers is green bean plants. These plants are in full production right now, I'm going to have to pick these plants soon also.
The raised bed behind the containers is mostly filled with marigolds, seeded from last year's plants. They're blooming nicely now.
My housemate is growing a type of Native American corn this year. The corn is a white kernel type flour corn. This corn is about the most primitive type of corn plant that I've seen so far. It's short, and has several stalks growing out of the bottom of the plant. The short stalks are where the ears grow on. It's this year's experiment with flour corn.
She also has pumpkin plants growing with the corn. The plants are growing pretty well now, and there's a few tiny pumpkins starting to grow on the vines.
One more picture for you.
This is a clump of black oil sunflowers that was planted by the greenhouse door by a chipmunk. I decided to let them grow, and now they're flowering.
That's all I have for this end of July garden report. Thanks for stopping by to check it out!
