Garden in June

Okay . . . here's how the garden looked like in middle June . . . first up, a broad overview of the left side of the garden. Forgot to take another of the right side.

I planted kale, two or three kinds of broccoli, lettuce, and spinach. Only one kind of broccoli is really flourishing; the two other just seems to have "gone AWOL". Since the weather has gotten warmer, the lettuce is bolting and so it will be time to dig these up and move some of the spinach plants over so as to make more room.

Further down, you can see that rosemary bush in the corner. Can you tell that I love rosemary?

Okay, here I have spinach growing, as well as red and yellow onion. The onion will be ready to harvest in early fall, then I'll be planting more onions to grow during winter. Oh, and here are the obligatory basil.

Here I have the Roma tomatoes growing. I bought two vines, which should ensure lots of tomatoes. Still haven't turned red yet but there sure are a lot of these growing. I'm going to be making lots of canned tomato sauce, hopefully, if mother lets me borrow her canning equipment.

A close-up view of the tomatoes waiting to ripen and be turned into pasta sauce.

I planted Brandywine tomato, two cucumber vines right here. Beware - cucumbers can grow, and grow, and grow. I've had to ruthlessly prune the vines to keep these in control. Mother's waiting for that first ripened tomato from this vine.

On the left side of the back yard, here are the clematis vines growing on the fence. And I've planted flowers - nasurtium, echinacea. Also, I planted red and green cabbage. I love cabbage, especially when you cook these in olive oil and season with salt and pepper, and a bit of paprika. I've heard that nasurtium blossoms are edible. I'll have to doublecheck on this before eating any, though.

Here's another view of the clematis growing. Remember the moonflowers that I had growing last year and quickly took control? Well, these died over the winter and are no more. What a relief.

I got Iceberg climbing rose bush from this outfit where they sell roses from the root. Not grafted in. It's supposed to make for a more vigorous rose. Last week I planted flowers that I had started from the seed. I'm hoping these will survive the transplant.

Here I'm growing artichokes. It looks like it is going to be next year before I'll get the flowers growing in.

And here are the flowers growing. See these tall plants with large leaves? No idea what these are, but I think these are datura from last year. These seem awfully invasive since they're growing all over the place on that side, certainly not what I intended. I think I'm going to be removing some of these this weekend.