Cosmos
On Thursday, after another cool night for sleeping, I didn’t have anyone coming to help. So I sozzled around and finally went out to the Big garden about 9:30.
I weeded the artichokes. There are a lot of chokes coming along.
When we were laying mulch on Wednesday, we had to cut down the hollyhocks. They had finished flowering and were decimated by rust. I cleaned up the remnants and hope they will be able to grow enough to fortify the roots for the winter. That’s assuming they are perennials.
I’ve not had celery do so well before. I will get a nice crop in the fall, I hope.
Then I weeded the onions rows. These are some of the Wallas left to process. They will be chopped for the freezer and used in spaghetti sauce and ketchup.
Next was to pull up all the green beans. There’s 2 Canterbury Bells in the middle of this row along with a couple nasturtiums.
The cosmos plants got so big they fell over, even with the supports I put in. They are just starting to flower now.
I didn’t have to do anything for the feverfew. It’s lush and bushy and has a wonderful scent.
I had to tie up a few tomatoes but the peppers were doing fine.
I always let a few volunteer cleome grow at the end of these rows. They are pretty small this year due to the drought.
In front of them are the leeks. They are doing ok, considering.
The Swiss chard is doing beautifully considering the drought. Next to it, the spinach had bolted in the heat last week, so I pulled it up.
I stopped with the Swiss chard. I still have some weeding and clean up to do in the areas I worked in, plus this mesclun bed. There are also 2 rows of celery to clean up also. Lots of apples and crabapples have fallen and those need to be picked up.
On Friday my backup helper is coming, I think, and if she does, we will bring up the hay bales we go on Monday to finish the pea area and do the bean area. It’s to get hot again so I won’t last long. We may do some of the Wallas for the freezer.