July Garden Porn

Ornamental Japanese Corn growing in the perennial garden (away from the sweet corn). SO pretty.

Tendrils of gourds, growing on an arched livestock panel. Excited to see how this all comes out.

Overview of the garden, taken from the northeast corner. Beans in foreground.

Wall o’ tomatoes. This just makes me happy.

Red Zebra tomato. I’m also growing a green zebra. Good thing the plants are well marked or I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference at this stage.

Early melon. This was grown from seed collected last year. The original variety was a hybrid, so I have NO idea how these are going to taste.

Tropea onions. An Italian heirloom. Not my favorite personally, but hoping they sell well in the sea of Walla Walla Sweets.

Spaghetti squash. Always a good seller. For the love of God, don’t put tomato sauce on it. Butter, salt and pepper. Done. Any questions?

Sunshine Kabocha squash. They start out yellow, so clearly well named. Note the accidental action bee shot.

Pie pumpkins. I don’t bother growing the big ornamental ones. Lots of those available. Mine are actually pretty AND good to eat. My try at Cinderella pumpkins is going to be a fail. The plants have succumbed to squash bugs.

The clean up crew. Always at hand and happy to eat any weed or oversized zucchini or cucumber that goes over the fence. And they cry and cry and cry in hopes you will throw them something. Note: there is much better pasture available to them. They LIKE it out there in the scraggly grass.

Charlie, out in the field with his girls. They are getting BIG. This was a pretty extreme camera zoom, so not the best shot, but they were so cute out there together I couldn’t resist.