A zuke, a cuke, and a pepper

And a few tiny tomatoes, some peas and some raspberries. :) and herbs. And my geraniums and rue and beans are all thriving. I couldn't quite summon the strength to weed as well as water, but that can be tomorrows adventure. Now, I must go home and cook!



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First cuke and pepper!

All kinds of things on the verge of harvest now. Yay!!











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Mad dogs and Englishmen

And me. All out in the noonday sun. In my case, to do a little garden work, but I plead temporary insanity. Gardening at that hour on a 90+F day? Yeah. At least I had the sense to stick my head under the water spigot each time I filled the 5-gallon bucket for watering. Still, got a fair amount done, and glad to see a few tomatoes and peppers showing through. Also, looks as though I'll get a nicely staggered crop, so I hopefully won't get overwhelmed. Tied up and staked up sone of the mint, since it's blooming. I was going to trim it back, but there were so many bees having a field day on the little blossoms that I relented and just tied them back so they'd grow up instead of out.





Honestly it does still resemble a jungle but since the bees are happily pollinating and hopping from the tomato and pepper blossoms to the mint and back, how can I complain?

Other areas of the garden are looking better, or at least more orderly.






Peppers, tomatoes, purple cabbage, and a couple random volunteer potatoes from last year? Hmm. Well they are all blooming with health so...



That last photo doesn't seem to show how much I've tied that monstrosity back, but I have. Really.

Also, I am inordinately fond of borage's pink and blue flowers. I seem to choose an awful lot if plants that like to sprawl, so after this photo I gave it a bamboo stake to lean on.



Then, on the way home for a shower, I stopped in to browse at my local farm/store/greenhouse. I'd never seen inside their greenhouse, but it's small and cute - but also it has fish!! I will have to stop by another day to visit them. They're lovely fat healthy Koi.



So, more work to do in the garden, but enough for one day. In spite of heat&sun induced headaches, it was a good day off.

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Ahhh, much better

Tucked in the wormwood and some more creeping thyme; planted some more beans, and gave everyone a good soak.





The bats swooped by to say hello as they munched on more bugs. :)


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Bats!

There are bats at the garden eating bugs!!!

*does a happy dance*

Also blackberries, raspberries, and at last my tomatoes are showing fruit.

Whew!

Now to come back tomorrow and finish clearing out all the overgrowth from around the edges of the garden.


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I'm sorry, the temperature is what?

Well, my poor garden (and everyone else's, here in New England) is struggling with the heat. At least my peppers might like it, but apparently it's not my imagination - we've broken the 100 degree mark, but mostly it's stubbornly sticking around between 94 and 98 degrees Fahrenheit. Good times.

Pardon me, but now I have to go water my garden, while it won't *immediately* evaporate away and might actually benefit the little green babies.