Part of my garden just after it rained.
I was visiting with a few long-time gardeners in our area and several of them commented on how their gardens were slow this year. Just too many cool, cloudy days, they felt. However, my parents garden is doing very well, they have a full-sun location and they are able to water with the rain water they collected.
I tied the tomatoes to the stake with old nylons.
I have never grown fennel before, but it seems to be doing well and I hope to get enough for a delicious fennel salmon recipe.
The cabbage is doing well and small heads are beginning to form.
The peas are not growing well at all. I don't know what is wrong with them and I will miss having fresh garden peas, they are a favorite.
The snap peas, however, are doing just fine and I have blossoms on them.
I have several volunteer tomatoes. I'm not sure they will amount to much in the way of produce, but wherever they are not in the way I will leave them to see what happens.
The cucumbers started to take off this week, we have had temperatures in the low 80s and I believe that has helped.
And finally, the thyme has started to bloom and I haven't harvested yet, I had better get some cut so I can hang it to dry in my kitchen.
Your garden looks beautiful. We have been having a bit of the opposite problem with our garden...too hot and not enough rain!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I get so confused by the english botanical terminology - peas and snap peas ... what's the difference? I don't recognize your "snap pea" plants at all, but when I googled "snap peas" I got photos of what we simply call "peas"! It's all such a mystery!
With snap peas the pod can be eaten. With peas, they need to be shelled from their pod to be eaten. Both taste wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThat is so weird about the peas. Are they new seeds? Maybe they are just a bum variety? Your cabbage looks great! Mine are all slug eaten and finally bolting before forming heads.
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