Coming home to the garden

After a glorious 4 weeks on the road, we returned last night. We were most excited about seeing our garden. We had our wonderful friend water for us while we were gone, and in spite of 100+ temperatures and us not being here to baby the little darlings, the garden looks great!

Sure, there were a few losses, but that happens even when we're home. So, here's what we came home to...

 
Our pots of flowers and some of our tomatoes in bales closest to our porch.


The main tomato garden in our side-front yard. We planted marigolds in the sides and some basil in between, but those aren't doing as well.


 Our first harvest! They tasted great sauteed up with onions and garlic :) That's one of our sweet potato vines on the bottom.


Tomatoes in bales and squash planted in a straw heap...something new we tried this year. The coffee canisters are there because our first squash were taken our by rampant pill bugs. We replaced them with these "collars." It's time to take the collars off :)


Our kale went crazy! Time to make some pesto :)


Sweet potatoes and squash, including yellow crookneck and "hand grenade" varieties.


Pepper and tomatoes.


Our little hand grenade squash :)


Another angle on those squash.


Our asparagus patch. Trust me on this one. Seems the weeds like the soil as well as the asparagus do. This is high on our weekend work list.


Side berry patch - raspberries and blackberries...and a volunteer squash.


We planted sunflowers this year :)


Our back berry patch...and volunteer squash. Am I sensing a trend here?


Our xeriscaped garden, with the old bomb shelter we need to have cleared out on the left and the dug out portion for the patio in front. Yup, more weeding needed here.


Our compost heap...with a volunteer squash. Yup, a definite trend. I think we'll be using the other compost pile for the rest of the summer!

That's it for now. We do have baby tomatoes, and the beets are coming in. More about that later!

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