mark picking tomatoes and basil in the garden
it's been rainy and cloudy and cool for a few weeks, now that we are starting to get sunshine we're gonna be DROWNING in tomatoes
the bean teepee and corn, which I've never grown before
I built the bean teepee rustic style, it has purple string beans (they turn regular ole green as soon as you cook 'em though), peas, and edamame
woodchip paths on top of cardboardconstructed using Lee Reich's digless, weedless gardening method (aka "the old newspaper trick). Except for a few agressive blackberry shoots and bindweeds I haven't had any weeds from coming up.
squash and gooseberries, raspberries, watermellon, cantelope. Little caterpillars have already destoyed most of the zucchini and now they're working on the yellow squash.
Purple basil in the back and a few eggplants in the front. I hear they are difficult. So far the bugs are very happy to chomp on them but they have flowered, so that's encouraging.
The fence is 7 ft deer mesh that is pretty invisible. I roll back a section to create a "gate". When I built the garden that was the last part of the project, and I thought the makeshift gate would be very temporary. Ha, ha, that was two months ago.
Peppers in the front, sungold tomatoes in the back. I planted the peppers in progression of heat -- started out with green bells and cubanelles, then jalapenos and hungarian hot wax, around the corner to the right are thai hot chilis.
In the foreground there I used some old grapevine on the rustic teepee to give it some charm when it was bare of vegetation.
Corn!
The cukes are struggling there in the front, that is asparagus in the middle and then cauliflower and corn in the back.
cabbage almost ready to pick
edamame (soybeans), which Karen *claims* is Evan's "favorite" food
tomatillos
I've never grown corn before - they say it is tricky but so far so good
"honey & pearl" ear of corn, first of the season
my system for staking the tomatoes was to slip a noose around their top and pull them up, then draped them with more deer mesh (a seven foot deer fence is no impediment whatsoever to the herd of bambis looking for a free buffet in my backyard every night
that's a crate I uh, well, I stole it from a neigbhor's curb. I painted it a "black forest green. For some insight into my psychology, I have not painted one wall or piece of furniture in our house, but I painted my compost bin. Weird.
a ribbon so the deer won't accidentally walk right through the nearly invisible mesh fence.
