pictures: garden tour late june 2019

Harvested two gallons of leaf lettuce, which was beginning to bolt. I'm having big salads for the next four days!

I have lots of tomato flowers. Here are two flower bunches on cherry tomatoes--I hope they all make tomatoes before it gets too hot here:

And here are some baby tomatoes still some weeks from being ripe: Austin Red Pear, tiny currant tomatoes (about the size of a cuff button on a man's shirt or even smaller) and a large tomato that ripens to green: Green Zebra tomato:

Rainbow chard and bush bean plants:

Carrots and green onions:

Ground cherries (related to tomatillos). They're starting to form little fruit but I'm not sure that the rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks won't get them all before I do.  And there's a sprawling weed there I need to pull up (We had six straight days of rain, so weeding had to be delayed).

The flower garden. Yarrow. Day lilies with petunias in the foreground grown from that 25-cent Dollar Tree seed. Also the large sunflowers are quite a bit over the fence now! If you drive down that street about 1/4 mile, you see the Mississippi River (you see it well over the River Road right now--can't get out that way, and haven't been able to for over a month.)

Really hot this next week, so I need to be done with gardening before 8 a.m. Mowing is going to be a pure misery from now until cooler weather.

A number of things I tried to grow didn't work--it might have been the wet spring, or that some of the organic matter I'd put over one bed hadn't decayed enough, or in a couple of cases, my BIL who grew up on a farm said "nobody grows those here in spring, just in fall," and there may be a good reason for that! So beets and turnips were a bust. And I could not stop spinach from bolting. I hope I can grow it over winter, under my low tunnel. If not, I might just grow it indoors in winter.