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| Overgrown garden!! |
The garden is out of control, as predicted. Calculated perfectly! I knew that having so many cucurbits, specifically pumpkins, in such a small garden was going to be challenging. Luckily, we built a sturdy structure which is completely overgrown with pumpkins. It's worked very well. We should have built another for the rest of the pumpkins, which have taken over one part of the garden.
The garden is such a joy in the height of summer! so much food, everything grows so quickly, and there are no slugs! It's too dry for slugs, letting leafy greens finally grow without holes in them!
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| Rhubarb is such an easy perennial. We simply divided the root and had 5 times more rhubarb this year as last year. |
Now is also a good time for colder-weather crops to be seeded for fall harvest. They grow quickly when the sun is out in the summer and then are big enough to withstand the cool weather later in the year. I have planted Kale, Kohlrabi, and Arugula. Hopefully they will get big enough before the fall... depends on how long the sun decides to stay out this year.
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| cucumbers growing wildly all over each other. Ideally I would have built a structure that would have allowed cucumbers to grow up instead in a big heap. |
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| Pumpkins hanging off of the trellis structure |
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| Chard, the best veggie to grow! Provides abundant food all year! |
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| The onions are finally ready. From seed to beautiful onion in 5 months! |
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| Cucumber, lemon cucumber, winter and summer squash varieties, among the beautiful harvest at Whiskerton this year! |
