The fairy garden is looking rather lived in at the moment. The houses are dirty and unkempt. Just like mine!
The snapdragons keep on blooming!
On to the veggies..
Cucumbers. We have already picked 3 (and devoured 2).
Pattypan squash- picked one the other day and fried it! Yum.
Also fried a couple of these..
I plant zuchinni in the same place every year and it always overtakes everything..
Lots of peppers everywhere. Big ones, small ones, banana, jalepeno. Big plants, small plants and everything in between. 15 in total.....
Twins!
I renamed this plant, the volunteer whatever who is eating the okra..
My onions are popping up out of the ground! They remind me of a passage in the book, Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.
potatoes blooming
baby watermelon
bigger watermelon! Only problem with this guy is that he is growing on the wrong side of the fence! The vines decided they wanted to grow through the fence to the neighbors yard... Kenny Rogers better not steal my watermelons. P.S. my neighbor is really named Kenny Rogers. Not the real Kenny Rogers or anything, but I'm sure you figured that out.
Tomatoes! Everywhere, every size, every color.
Red Zebra
Almost ripe early girl.
More almost ripe early girls
German pink. I'm so excited for these! Last year the plant grew great, but there wasn't a single tomato on it. So I'm looking forward to seeing how pink these get!
Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. This plant is so loaded with these that the cage is falling over already!
Rosso scillian. I love the folds on these! They are supposed to be very meaty with not a lot of seeds so they are perfect for canning.
My lone volunteer tomato plant that is growing very close to another. It has one tiny tomato on it.
Finally, have you ever seen the flower on an okra plant? Beautiful! I have never grown okra before so I was amazed by the flower!!
It's about to be that time of the summer where you bring in buckets full of veggies everyday!
Wow I have never seen an okra blossom before...it is stunning!
ReplyDeleteI will be curious to see how your Rosso Scillian tomato turns out, I'm always on the look out for new tomatoes for canning.
I must say your post made me a touch jealous, with all of our rain we have no melons and most of the tomatoes are just blooming...sigh.
I guess I will have to enjoy through my KinderGARDENers posts! Kim
wow, so much is growing and so much to harvest already!
ReplyDeleteI read AVM and remember that many of her comments were for a mature audience--I'm not remembering the one about the onion, but I get the gist!
ReplyDeleteI can only DREAM of tomatoes as red as your first "almost ripe early girl"!
And YES the okra bloom is gorgeous!
Good luck retrieving the watermelon from Mr. Rogers. You may have to sing the neighbor song OR share it!!
I am amazed how far along your garden is. Where are you located? I am excited to see okra blossoms, thank you for posting.
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks amazing! So jealous of those gorgeous tomatoes ready to harvest. Those Sicilian toms sound great. I'll have to add okra for the plants to try next year.
ReplyDeleteokra flowers are gorgeous, i wish we could grow them in my zone :) also a little jealous of your melons (lol) which will grow in my zone, but we have less-than-zero luck with them. you are growing really interesting tomato varieties, please post pics of the pink ones when they ripen :)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't get all you pictures to load up (darn satellite internet), but what I could see looked AMAZING. Your garden is so far ahead of ours... fun FUN to see. Animal Vegetable Miracle is one of my favorite books!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I am in Kansas! We have had temps in the high 90's or low 100's everyday for about 2 weeks with several more weeks to come. I don't love it but the plants do! As long as I keep them watered well! I am so pleased with the okra. I havent grown it before but the flowers are beautiful, the plant is hardy (and prolific) and it tastes good. What's not to like!
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