Kitchen garden is looking pretty good. The peppers are just beginning to produce. The tomatoes need a little more time. The beans are growing nicely. Squashes are setting some nice squashes for winter and summer types. The Orchard Baby sweetcorn is a dwarf type, and is a little taller than Rufus. The sauce tomatoes seem less vigorous than last year, bit I don't need that many.
All of the Rudbeckias that I started early, during the winter, are blooming furiously.
The Coreopsis just started blooming.
The new echinaceas are not blooming yet. One from the past couple of years just started blooming.
These were the last beans I planted. I had covered them with cardboard to keep the seeds moist in the 90s heat. I planted them 5 days ago.
Now I have them covered with fencing to frustrate birds. If they survive, I want to add a drip line.
I usually have zucchini fries from the air fryer, or stir fried zucchini, or zucchini fritters, or... but this time I made lemon zucchini cookies.
Not bad!
These were planted 16 Jul. I raised the anti-bird screen to give them room to grow. Every seed germinated within about four days - pretty good I think. They will need to be thinned next week.
I planted a row of beans where I dug potatoes the past couple of days. It's a little exposed but also a little protected, from deer and rabbits. I will try to protect them with more fencing once they grow bigger. This finished off the packet of fast growing "Contender" beans.
There was a little more space, so I also planted some seeds from an old packet of "Roma" beans. I actually like those a lot.
Tomorrow is expected to be very hot. I don't want them to dry out, so after watering them, I covered the row with cardboard to keep them moist.
It's late for planting bush beans, but climate is changing and the extra warmth might speed them up enough for a good harvest.
