This garden has always suffered from too little sun and too shallow of holes or “coffins.” We always laughed that if someone was looking down on this garden it would look like three burial plots in a terraced fashion. Dave and Cherie got those holes as deep as they could with the pickaxe but really they are only about 6 inches deep. Over the past 5 summers some of the hard pan (?) underneath has broken up, but not really.
So needless to say, it is not the most productive garden ever but I have fun with it. This year it HAS TO look good to someone if we get to sell before the fall. So I have planted two to three times the flowers I normally plant, and mostly veggies that are colorful- sweet peppers, tomatoes, yellow squash and cantaloupe, as well as green beans and cucumbers on trellises. and they are doing their mostly slow, pretty growth and starting to flower. The actual flowers are coming into their own!
The vegetables are flowering (the squash like the header picture are so beautiful), but not much is ripening yet. The pear tomatoes are close to turning yellow, as well as the green stripe tomatoes are a good size but hard. The green beans have reached the top of the trellis and the cucumbers are halfway up. The onions from the fall are starting to be ready to harvest! I again have volunteer potatoes but I left them to grow since they are in the back and are a very deep, pretty green!
So overall the heat is starting to take out the flowers around the pool but helping the garden grow. I’m making sure there is plenty of water. I had a bunch of weeds to pull after only 5 days of overhead sprinklers, but I think those are now under control.
