This year I am trying out raised beds for my corn and I think the photo below shows just how much this year’s corn likes this raised bed!
The zucchini is getting huge and is starting to produce some nice sized zucchinis this week.
The other day I was able to harvest our first one and we ate it raw right then and there. YUM!
Growing next to the zucchini is a pattypan squash and I have found it is always slower to flower than the zucchini. It looks like it should be flowering within the next week though.
I decided to grow some tomatoes, peppers, and basil on my deck in some old nursery pots I happen to have on hand. The deck always gets so hot so I figured they might really like residing there.
Finally, here is a shot of my bush beans that are flowering. Aren’t they pretty? I did not know this variety would have such pretty flowers. Now I can’t wait for the beans to develop.
That was a small glimpse into how my veggies are growing this week. How are your vegetables growing right now? Harvesting anything this week?
Well today I harvested a small cabbage, lots of carrots and a tiny onion. I made coleslaw. Yum. I do laugh a little at the below 70 comment. We had so many more days in June below 70 than above. Our normal right now is about 82 and I think we have had about two days above 80 since the beginning of June. We have had hotter weather in May. It has been a really strange summer. More like spring than summer. I have to confess however that the abnormal cool weather is better than abnormal hot weather. I do miss my zucchinis. Last year I harvested the first zucchini on June 16th. This year I have finally found a female blossom (in bud mind you not in bloom) yesterday. It is days before it will bloom. I’m a month late. My cucumbers are similar. At least the peas are going crazy and I’ve found pickled peas are as good as pickled cucumbers. I wonder what else I can pickle.
I must confess Daphne, your harvests always make me think I need to expand my vegetable garden! I get hungry for more every time I visit you blog and see what is currently growing and/or on the menu for the day.
We, too, are having a rather strange summer. It was so warm in June and I thought we were going to have a hot summer. But July has been ridiculously chilly! This is the second time this month that the temperatures suddenly dropped down in the 60’s. By Wednesday they are suppose to warm back up to the 80’s! Crazy month.
Cynthia~~ Zucchini and tomatoes. These are the extent of my veggie gardening. I’m in to fruit. I’ve been picking berries for about a month. Today I picked my first two fairly good sized zucchini. Gently steamed and topping pasta. Yum.
Hi Grace, We really extended our veggie garden last year and I am so glad we did too. Prior to doing so I mostly focused on my love of herbs and flowers but vegetable growing is so rewarding. There is nothing better than serving dinner from the garden!
Your veggie garden looks great. I always start with good intentions, but usually end up with tomatoes and peas. My zucchini’s leaves look the same as yours. I thought it was getting mildew already, but that must be what they look like. I have a couple of baby zucchinis and we picked some broccoli and peas, that’s it so far. I like the idea of basil in a pot on the deck. I think I’ll try that next year.
Hi Catherine, I wish I had gotten around to planting peas. For some reason or another they slipped my mind when it came time to planning this year’s garden. Now I am missing them!
We could have gone for a little “free” watering during that cloudy, chilly spell. Your garden looks great!
Hi Lanny, Free watering sounds great right now! We are very warm and the garden was very wilted today. I could not keep up with the watering demands. This weather has got the plants as confused as it has got me!
Hi Cynthia! Very healthy looking garden! We still have green peas, usually they are gone in my garden by this time, as well as lettuce, we have tons of it! I felt good about my vegetable garden til I notice strange looking leaves on my tomato plants. I think they are in trouble. I need to find a new place for them, but it’s not an easy task.
Thank you Tatyana.
I hope your tomatoes end up making alright. There certainly is not anything better than a tomato fresh from the garden and still warm from the sun. Good luck with them! I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Very nice. This is our first year – and we’re growing tomatoes, cucumber, strawberries, cantelope, and peppers. All of them are in raised beds I built this spring. Everything seems healthy except that the cucumbers have been eaten to death by animals. It’s been very sunny this summer for our area, with high’s in the 70-80’s.
We’ve harvested a small number of strawberries, my tomatos are pleantiful and green, the peppers just started flowering the other day, and the cantelope is flowering, but no sign of fruit yet. I also grew some herbs, but I got lazy about harvesting them since I haven’t been cooking much lately. (Eating more minimal cooking dinners with the summer heat).
My brother and his family are also growing this year up the hill from us. Everything bloomed about 2-3 weeks earlier up there – probably because they get an extra hour of sun every day. Their zucchini look like yours, and their strawberries were much more producive than ours. Our tomatoes plants are much larger than theirs. We’re at the bottom of the hill where soil moisture is higher and soil temp is lower, so we haven’t had to water our plants nearly as much.
It’s been fun and I think we’ll keeping doing it again next year. I want to grow beans next year. I also want to get a rain barrell.
Hi Jake! It sounds like you are having an amazing first year! I’m impressed. Micro climates have always fascinated me and I try to take advantage of them in my garden. That is why I am trying out growing the peppers, tomatoes, and basil on the deck where it gets pretty warm. All three really love the heat and can take it well seeing that they get sufficient water. I had horrible luck with growing cantaloupe last year and was very disappointed. If if wasn’t getting dug up continuously it was the weather was too cool for it to do much. Hope you have much better luck than I did! Thanks for the nice comment! I enjoyed hearing about your garden.
What a great looking garden. We had big plans this year but nothing came from it. After viewing your photos I’m feeling that a garden must happen next year. Enjoy the eats!