The Garden

Been so busy inside that I haven't spent much time in the garden of late. Just a few (LOL) weeds have come up since my last visit.  Lots of growth of everything.  

A friend of mine gave me some spiderflower (Cleome) seeds last year and I planted a few this year but didn't think they had come up.  In the garden (not where I thought I put the seeds a plant came up that looked interesting but I wasn't sure what it was until just this week. And it's these spiderflowers. They are about to bloom so look for a new picture soon - the flower is beautiful. I planted some in another garden too, but they are way behind this one.


The herbs and vegetables are all doing well. My lavendar has thrived though won't bloom until next year unfortunately. Corn looks like it may be edible soon.  Nelson didn't have much luck with watermelon this year, but planted it again.. It is running amuck (see picture on left), taking over the world. There are a few small watermelons showing up. We'll see if they ever get big or ripe this year. I'm going to cut it back if it threatens my green beans. No sign of cantelopes, though a few plants have flowers.
Green beans are starting to produce and we had some for dinner last night. Lots of hot peppers; and as usual only one person (not me) who will eat them. There are some small green peppers showing up and hopefully they will grow some. No sign of the red peppers though.  We've had a few ripe tomatoes and there are many, many green ones. Zucchini's have slowed down fortunately, though still some forming.  Cucumbers wern't coming up so we kept replanting and now we have a lot of plants (too many); one has started to produce fruit, so there will be relish and pickles this year afterall.  Farmer Jones signing off!