Our Garden!

Yes, it is "our" garden, and Thomas has been a great help with watering. We bit off a pretty big space, and we have certainly learned a few things for next year. But this year is still just mid-stride. The season seemed to start so much later here - that extra thousand feet really makes a difference with night temps. Oh, and then it has been the driest year in forty years, or something like that. So we are judging that anything we pull off this year should give us hope for even better years in the future.

The cucumber are starting to get big, but probably won't yield a big pickling crop. The dill never came up - could be the challenge of the dryness and germination.

The chiles are starting to produce, but the plants really never got a chance to get very big. We have just a few roma tomatoes in the mix and one okra that doesn't look any bigger than when we planted it.

This is Pop's squash. I saved seeds from last year's crop. They had a setback when we slowed down watering when it rained. The reality is that the rain was not enough to make a dent in the day's heat. We lost a few, and I think something ate a few. We've got about half a dozen looking good.

These are the pintos that Tom planted. He's quite proud of them and hoping to dry them. Not sure we'll have a big yield, but he enjoys planting and watering (I weed).

The garlic has almost all been harvested. The onions are big on top, but still small down below. Hopefully, they will get bigger, and we'll have a nice supply of red onions. (rows of bean in the background)

We got lots of peas, and they mostly got eaten off the vine. They are sure tasty. Less than half the snow peas took off, but the sugar snap peas did pretty well. I am not sure if we had birds in their helping themselves or if it was the rabbits. The rabbits definitely did some damage in the peas.

The potatoes (left side) have done really well, though it looks like some potato beetles recently helped themselves. I have been finding them on a different plant - tomato family, but they came up on their own. I have been squishing and smashing the eggs and pulling that other plant, but they finally made their way into the potatoes. It will be especially exciting to see what is growing under the dirt. Hopefully lots of little potatoes! In the right top corner are spaghetti squash. They are doing really well. I wanted to plant butternut squash, but I think next year I need to be more strategic about where all these squash are planted, or we might just end up with a Pop's spaghetti-nut!

And I will need to get a picture of the garlic drying under the tin shed. I harvested about 150 heads of garlic last week. Admittedly, we lost a bunch. Better luck next year! And as I weeded tonight, I even found a few carrots that germinated. They were surrounded with bindweed, but I had already long given up on them. Guess there were a few tough seeds left in the row!