Monday, August 12, 2013
Late Garden Start
Due to several circumstances our garden got a very late start this summer,,,very late.
One thing Mike arranged to have done was this lovely planted area out in front of the house. Now that the peak of summer is here we can watch close to a dozen swallowtail and monarch butterflies on the flowers at any point in time during the day.
We put in a tomato plant and in front of it on the left is a jalapeno bush, next to that we put in two eggplant bushes.
Behind the tomato plant there are radishes and sweet basil.
We planted our pickling cucumbers under trees where they still get lots of sun but also have something to climb.
This is our other tomato plant. As of now, 8-12-13, both our tomato plants are over 6 feet tall.
Our fig tree has already given us about 8 dozen figs and another crop is ripening.
In the orchard the Asian pears are getting big.
So are the apples.
We lost all the Concord grapes due to the dry spell we had earlier this summer.
But, while we wait for all our backyard garden and orchard crops to come in,we have been keeping the Farmers' Market going.
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