So goes the garden



It has been a crazy-busy summer filled with travels - both for fun and work - as well as a busy work schedule. Thanks to some buddies at work (Thanks, Desi, Jazz & Lauren!) our garden is going great. A picture paints a thousand words, so I'm going to shut up now...


Our large front section of bales. We had some interesting setbacks concerning a couple of the bales, and the beans didn't like their location much. Have added in some rainbow chard and beets. 
Cabbage worms have attacked...but we're trying to get on top of the situation by picking off eggs and 'pillars every day.


 
Our front bales. Squash and some beans are doing well...

 
...others didn't do so great, so I planted beets and some onions :)
 
Onions in the back bales are coming along nicely. We started them from sets...and this is a first for us.

 
Squash against the back fence are producing lots of foliage, but not as much fruit as you would think...but I'm sure that will come (and we can't even keep up with what we have at this point).

 
Also in the backyard, these patty pan and yellow zucs are filling out nicely.

 
Big Jims plus other peppers are coming along...we just have to figure out when to pick them.

 View of the "U" bales in back. The cherry tomatoes in the back right are the only tomatoes we bought, and they aren't doing very well with the afternoon heat of our back yard.
Our xeriscaped area is looking much better since Chuck invested all that time getting the weeds out.
 
I know it just looks like an overgrown muddle, but the asparagus are doing great! This is their first year in, so we can't pick any yet. We just let them go to frond. We have 2 successions of beets going and have had a wonderful harvest from those planted next to the house.


Our volunteer squash patch has turned out a few tasty morsels.


 Our volunteer cantaloupes are doing well, too. I think we'll be harvesting soon.


Tomatoes in large front bale section are starting to produce fruit. Since I got confused about what we planted where, I think this may be the only section with larger heirloom tomatoes.

 
These beauties are going to be part of our lunch :) 

OK, so maybe we should have put in taller T-posts. These are 6-foot posts, and many plants have already topped them. We have to figure out how to make them taller. You can see some of our basil in the midst of the tomatoes.





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