This is the outside vegetable bed. It has three zucchini/summer squash plants which are potentially doing better than the ones inside the fence, but they're still pretty small. The pole beans are probably doing the best of everything in the garden.
I've got a bunch of beans that are starting to plumb up, and a ton more flowers. They're getting too tall for the fence, so we are trying to train them to go across the top. It's a daily job, but I think it's working ok.
Here are two of the zucchini plants and the smallest of our sunflowers. They have lots of flowers, but they're all males. The one female flower that I attempted to pollinate by hand had a slug in it, so when I reached in with the male the dang flower fell off! Slugs. Bane of my existence.
On a side note, I'm really mad about our sunflowers. Last Friday I came home from a BBQ to see the one that was blooming bent about a foot down, like someone had tried to break it off by hand but couldn't and just left it hanging there. Today we came back from running errands and the other sunflower, the big one you can see near the gate in the first picture, was ripped off about 6 inches from the ground! Oh, SO MAD. It wasn't even blooming yet!! First the tulips, now both of the big sunflowers. We're pretty sure we know which kid it is, but I'm afraid to confront him in case he starts doing more damage. Little butthead. What to do?
The leeks keep growing. I've started to pile up the dirt around them to make the white usable park longer. I think we have a few beets that are harvestable size, but I'm scared to pull them. Maybe next week.
These are my sad zucchinis in the carrot bed. They're just so small and puny. I fertilized this week, so maybe they'll get a big bigger, but we are approaching the end of the season so I'm not sure...
I left the rest of the carrot/squash bed unplanted so the squash plants could expand over the area. Big thinking, eh? Not so much. Maybe I'll plant some more carrots in here since I know they'll be able to overwinter once the squash are done. You can see my yellow beefsteak heirloom tomato in the background. It's about 4 feet tall! It's just starting to get wee tomatoes on it. It was one of the last ones planted, so I'm thinking that this is the bed my 'maters will go in next year. Must be the most sun in the whole yard.
Butternut squash! Coming along. Fertilized and hopefully growing quick and big.
These two are delicata. The one in the front was the best of the bunch, but when I lifted a leaf to fertilize the whole stalk broke off at the base. It looked like it was rotting, which was really disappointing. I plopped the whole thing back in a hole with the hopes it would be able to root (ha, fat chance) but one of the leaves is still perky while the rest have shriveled. Maybe the root system will grow, but I'm not holding my breath. Now all my hopes have moved to the one in the background. Keeping my fingers crossed I get at least one squash this year!!
The tomato bed is rivaling the beans. These guys all have tomatoes on them, either orange, pink, or green. I get about a cup of cherry tomatoes a day, and the romas are starting to ripen.
Caspian pink heirloom, looking plump and delicious.
Ripening romas.
The shriveled tomatoes are starting to plump up and ripen, too.
Last but not least, Anaheim peppers. I have six plants in pots and they're going bonkers. I wish I had more cages to put around them because they're so big they're starting to flop over. The peppers are currently a couple inches long. Putting them in pots was genius, a move I will definitely be doing again next year. Looking forward to eating these guys!!
Now, off to see what I can harvest today and check for hooligans running around to have a little talk.
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