baby squash, zucchini and watermelon

baby spaghetti squash


baby watermelon


baby zucchini


the beans. you can see in the corner, the mesh trellis has slipped and sagged down with the weight of the beans.


tomatoes


spaghetti squash


monster sunflower and zucchini


dying peas on the left, black eyed peas on the right


watermelon vines


cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli


sunflowers


sunflower bud (old camera wouldnt focus)


gigantic sunflower, multiple buds

pear tree shaping

pear trees tend to grow vertical, to the extreme. which is NOT whats healthy for a fruit producing tree. a tree that is spread out more horizontally, a tree that is more OPEN to the air, AND the sunlight, its healthier. but pear trees if left alone will grow all its branches straight vertical. and the crowding promotes disease from poor air and sun circulation.

so you have to train pear trees. have to push or pull those vertical branches out and down. i've been trying branch spreaders, but that hasnt worked on all the branches. some branches will continue to try their damnedest to grow vertical at the ends even if the crotch of the branch is at a nice angle. so i used old nylons and rocks to weight the outer edge of those overly vertical branches to help to make them less vertical.






looks pretty funny, but its doing exactly what i want it to do.

rye, nearly ready to harvest, but not quite.

the seeds have just barely started to burst out of their husks. they need to be more OUT.

lilies

a few years ago i picked up some bulbs on clearance, thinking they were daylilies. found out they were asiatic lilies. the flowers are similar, but the base is extremely different.









i fed the tortoise some squash blossoms, she ate them all!

raspberries

raised bed garden


raspberry patch


raspberries were just starting to come in

garden pictures

beans on the trellis.


those beans at the back in the above picture, behind them i planted sunflowers. beans on the left, sunflowers on the right. its hard to tell, they're neck and neck with each other.


tomatoes up front, peanuts in the back. lots of shredded leaves as mulch.


spaghetti squash, with more space to grow. and more shredded leaves, even in the aisles on the black plastic. i made a proper mess. moving leaves about is a rather messy task. lots of dribbling.


squash vines from the other side, starting to sprawl out


marigolds, zucchini, and the monster volunteer sunflower. behind the zucchini is whats left of the leaf piles.


peanuts




sugar snap peas on the left, black eyed peas on the right, watermelon vines along the bottom


bottom right, cabbage. top right, brussels sprouts. moving left is cauliflower and more sunflowers. moving down the left side is broccoli, then more peanuts. hadnt gotten to weeding this far yet.


the rye. its starting to turn more gold than green, and the heads are bending over. it had also rained and been very windy so it was a bit knocked down in some sections in this picture.


close up rye, getting bigger and heavier, not yet ready for harvest.


more watermelon, and out of control clover


watermelon vine close up

cookies!!!

i baked cookies. they were yummy.

toffee cookies


sugar cookies