The left hand side of the garden...

The center of the garden... Peppers, plus two surviving pea plants in the center. The lush green plants in the front row are going to be straw flowers - another survivor from my seedlings.

The tomato end of the garden... Peppers are peeking up and the tomatoes are becoming entangled with each other!

Lush and purple crystal palace something..

My quickly expanding squash and pumpkin plants.

Squash blossom!

Tomato blossom

Blossoms on my tomato plants!

A pepper plant.

I transplanted several of the tomato-weeds into the spot where the beets were originally going to be.

The radishes confuse me. They're flowering, but there were only like 1-2 marble sized radishes in there. Nothing more. The rest were just normal skinny roots. So either I didn't thin them out enough, making it difficult for them to get enough nutrients, or they suck. I vote to blame the radishes, it couldn't possibly be me.

Happy little herbs, growing away. This year I'm going to be good about plucking off the flowers.

Mint-gone-wild!

Finally my Romas are ripening up! I still have an abundance of cherry tomatoes as well. I'd neglected to check on the garden all weekend, so I went out Monday afternoon to find the entire thing overrun with ripe tomatoes. Some of which has fallen to ground, but were still edible or ripening.

There is still a good amount in the process of ripening, and within a couple of days I should have doubled my harvest. If anyone has some good tomato recipe ideas, let me know!

Then I cut up all of the herbs and will be drying what I have left. Only my Bloodleaf remains in the containers. I've saved what I can of the soil, and while toss in some fertilizer when its time to reuse it in the spring.





In addition to harvesting tomatoes and herbs, I cleaned up the garden. I figure that if I go plant-by-plant, it will be easier to take care of in the end when I plant the bulbs. Weeds have been few and far between luckily. I uprooted all of the diseased squash, as the baby squash had started to rot as well. The salvia is flourishing, the begonias are holding their own, and the argeritum seems to be making a come back. The celosia died off a while ago.




My brussel sprouts are getting big and should be ready to pick soon!