Garden 7/19/08

This was after quite a bit of weeding work. The pumpkins have taken off out of the corn at the far end. We put down 4 bales of hay, shaken out across the grass for the pumpkin plants to crawl away on. On the upper end, the rutger tomatoes are all weeded and respaced. The top row is yellow squash which hasn't started to bloom yet. The second row is herbs; then tomatoes, peppers, a row of spanish onions, and then the bean poles in the middle.

Bruce planted some Jacob cattle beans between the peppers and onions, and they've come up nicely.

Below the beans are the Job's Tears; then the beets which are infiltrated with last year's volunteer tomatoes. Then basil and carrots, and before the horseradish came in so abundantly, we planted lettuce, mustard and green onions in there.

As you can see, the blue corn is tasseled. The hubbard squash south of the corn either was burnt off by the manure, or eaten off. The watermelon at the far end didn't have a chance. But its okay. The pumkins are coming out all sides of the corn.

What fun, what fun. I planted some persimmon seeds in the herb row where the cumin didn't come up. We will see if the persimmons do better. How I'd love to have some persimmon trees!