{"id":3377,"date":"2025-07-01T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2025-07-03T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:10:02","slug":"the-summer-garden-in-shingle-springs-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.murbook.family\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"The summer garden in Shingle Springs. June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This garden has always suffered from too little sun and too shallow of holes or \u201ccoffins.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have so many marigolds of all varieties of yellow, orange and red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lantana and zinnias in the same color scheme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I planted new snapdragons; the old ones were five years old and had \u201ctrunks\u201d over an inch in diameter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mexican false heather is such a beautiful lavender color!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pear tomatoes- they are small like a cherry tomato!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The green zebra stripe tomatoes are hard to judge but are still pretty firm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No cantaloupe yet but lots of flowers and vines extending in every direction.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These cukes are growing up the trellis day by day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Filling day by day as they head up the trellis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So overall the heat is starting to take out the flowers around the pool but helping the garden grow. I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thought I had killed these basil plants from Lori but here they go. These are shaded during the heat of the day by a tomato plant!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These lilies will be gone by fall but so pretty now!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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