Gardening Is Good

written by Yvonne

These were taken about a week ago with my brand new camera bought by Tom. Still need to figure out how to get the date stamp show up.  Why, you might ask, did Tom buy me a new camera?  Because Tom broke my old one when trying to clean it after getting sticky bee stuff all over it.

Basil, and tomatoes are doing well.  On the far right end are the remains of a small squash plant (that didn't produce anything) and the zucchini plant.  The reason it looks like there's white dust all over the tomatoes is because there is.

Tom spread a layer of DiPel to help ward off bugs who might attack our tomatoes.  DiPel is a combination of 5 bacterial proteins that get ingested by insects and they die.  We didn't use any last year, but we felt we might need it this year because it was such an early season. We don't mind using it since it's not a chemical.

The aforementioned small squash and zucchini. They'll be getting pulled out in the next few days.

Barlotto beans.

The beans are getting long and plentiful.  We're letting hang out on the vine until they start to dry out - then we'll harvest them.

Cucumbers.  They look a little sad, but that's what happens when they start producing. No, we're not watering them with beer.

The parsley hedge seems to be dying off. I figured out it was because we'd gotten so much rain in a short amount of time.  You can see the leaves are turning bright yellow; an indication of too much water.  I'll cut this way back and see if I can't revive it.

Chamomile still flowering.

A couple of late blooming okra plants.  This is a second plating since the first ones didn't take hold.