Garden journal - June 2020

It’s amazing what the garden has accomplished in just two more weeks. A quick journaling: The tomato plants, some of which have green fruit, are hiding the flourishing lettuce in this photo, which we can’t seem to pick fast enough. The peas grew so tall so fast that the willow pyramids no longer support them, we had to use additional iron trellises to prop them up. Fingers crossed they hold.

We’re harvesting more snap peas than we know what to do with. Note to self: plant the peas along the fence next year. The cucumbers (also hard to see) are thriving with several 5 inch cucumbers on the vines. I really need to start training them to climb that trellis, but the bees are making it difficult to get close. In the back, the squash is taking over, and I’m trying my best to keep it contained to the trellises as long as possible, but it’s only a matter of time before the vines will spill over the sides of the boxes.

The potatoes are flowering and are over a foot tall. They’re shading the beans, so next year I’ll be sure to plant them in the back. The pumpkin vines look strong, aside from the one plant the bear keeps stomping. The cutting flowers are growing steadily, with a few buds here and there. The white climbing roses have made their way to the fence and are blooming in abundance - something I wasn’t sure I’d see this year.

The blueberries are turning blue, we’ll get a handful of those this year, and the apple trees are looking strong. We’re steadily harvesting a rainbow of carrots and still waiting for the pepper plants to really take off. We’ve had a few set backs, but overall the garden thriving and producing much more quickly than it was last year. We’re attributing that to an earlier start, the early heat and the newly installed drip lines