Early July Vegetable Garden

 

Pardon the blurry look to these photos.

My camera has been acting up.

 

Oregano starting to recover from the haircut I gave it.

Zinnias starting to peek up from behind.

Spinach and swiss chard gone.

They were only about 3 inches tall and already bolting.

I have planted beans in their places.

Sweet potato is going for broke. I'm so curious what we're going to find when we dig it up.

Potatoes are still full and bushy.

 

Up to the middle terrace: 

Peas are struggling. It got hot so quickly this year that they just haven't been growing.

I'll give them another week or two, then I'm yanking them out.

No harvest yet.

 

Mini pumpkins starting to fill out.

Beans growing.

 

Jack-o-lantern pumpkins starting to run!

Once I pull out the peas, I'm going to let them run over to that end of the bed.

And all that feathery goodness?

Volunteer cosmos from my little cutting garden patch last year.

I pulled out the ones most crowding my other stuff.

The rest I'm just going to let make a jungle, I guess.

A flowery jungle...hmmm...sounds perfect!

 

Get a load of these onions!

For once in my life I'm growing big onions!

I take back all the onion grumbling from the past.

The only thing different this year is that I spaced them out 4-6 inches.

That's it. And just look at them!

Now I'm ready to grow onions every year, forever and ever.

 

This is at the end of the terrace, looking back toward the onions and cosmo jungle.

Zucchini is actually growing and flowering.

Good sign.

And those are cucumbers climbing that trellis (with quite a bit of encouragement.)

Tons of flowers and even a few small cukes coming. Yeah!

 

Top terrace:

Marigold, basil, and tomatoes.

Starting to fill in.

 

 

Plus, the pole beans are starting to climb!