The garden is looking full and lush with flowers and veggies popping up everywhere. The green beans are climbing and I am seeing lots of beans forming. The snap peas are looking good, tomatoes (Solar Fire, Sun Sugar, Roma, Husky cherry, Black cherry, Ace 55 VF, Heatmaster and a couple of other surprise varieties) are green but will be ripe soon, and the cucumbers are flowering. The squash never cease to amaze me with their large beautiful leaves and yellow flowers. I look at them every day but always seem to miss something. Yesterday I found a 6 inch long fat grey zucchini underneath the big leaves. How did I miss that? Cool. This year I haven't had to pollinate the squash myself as there are lots of bees buzzing. I attribute that to the plethera of flowers that I planted throughout the garden. There was even a bee stuck in a squash flower and couldn't get out. Other than fertilizing with Fish Emulsion, Liquid Seaweed and Epsom Salt every 2 weeks, I'm just letting the garden do it's own thing this year. I like the surprises. The sunflowers are opening and I've been cutting them and have fresh flowers in the house daily. I absolutely love that! There is cilantro and dill growing everywhere in the gardens and they smell fabulous. The cilantro I planted in Feb. has bolted with tall pretty white small flowers. I use those in my flower arrangements too. My house smells like a Mexican restaurant and I like it.
One thing that's not growing well right now are the peppers. They seem to be stuck in this small no-grow mode. Not sure if I planted the wrong things too close to them or what, but I'll wait and see what happens with them. That happened last year but they finally took off and produced pretty well. I am hoping for the same results this year.
I'm going to keep planting sunflowers every week or two. They just seem to make things better and brighter.
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| Flower arrangement: Sunflower, Cilantro and mystery flowers. |
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| Grey Zucchini--Surprise! |
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| Green Bean (Kentucky Pole) |
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| Raised Bed: Green bean trellis, leeks, nasturtiums, sunflowers. There's also, peppers, dill, cilantro, red cabbage, chives, garlic and corn in that bed. |
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| Solar Fire |
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| Ace 55 VF |
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| Roma |
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| Carrots |
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| Tomatillos |
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