GARDEN IS GROWING WELL

It was a great weekend for gardening, nude and otherwise, ha (see yesterday's post).  I didn't need to mow but I did have to edge, which is taking longer now, so much to edge around.  

I will admit it's not my most favorite thing to do while I'm doing it (as opposed to my time on the Zen Machine) but it IS perhaps the most rewarding thing to see when it's done.  I edge around the house, the flowerbeds, the orchard (above), the garden fence, the barn and shed and when I have the energy, the fence line down the driveway.  I'm tired but when I stand back and look, it's just so neat and tidy.

We have fruit still growing nicely. These are a couple of the plums...

And a few pears too.  Also some peaches.  The only trees without fruit are the apple trees but it's still a bit early for them.  

I also pruned the dead branches off the citrus and we're going to just let them grow and see what happens this year.  I watered them well.  Maybe we'll get some citrus, maybe not but they've made it this far we might as well see how they do.

We have yellow squash. Quite a few actually. We like them just simply fried in a skillet with some butter, salt and pepper, but we hope to have enough for a nice yellow squash casserole too (side note, any recipes for that gladly accepted, ha!).

The pickling cucumbers are climbing the trellis.  I had to adjust one of them that was spreading more on the ground and so I put it upright onto the trellis.

We hope the tendrils latch on.  

The eggplants (regular and Asian) are getting very large and have blooms on them.

I forgot to get a picture of the pepper bed, but after they struggled a bit to get started, two are doing much better.  The banana pepper (which we've already harvested one pepper) has a couple new blooms and the jalapeño has two actual small peppers on it.  Unfortunately, the poblano died.  Not sure why but I'll just replace it this weekend with another pepper. Maybe another hot pepper variety.

This tomato has blooms all over it.  It is the "Celebrity" variety.  Growing a bit behind the other...

...which has large green tomatoes all over it!  This is the "Heatmaster" variety and it obviously liking the weather now that it's warmed up. 

The herbs are scattered around in various beds and of course, we can't kill herbs so they are doing great.

Hope your weekend was a good one!