It ’s a lovely June , and the summer heat is starting to get in .
With it , the garden are racing – especially the plant from the tropic regions of the globe .
Today I ’ll share a few photos I took on my wife ’s sound this morning .
First , here are some scarlet runner beans :
We grew these in the past , but give up on them as non - productive in our North Florida gardens . However , they are beautiful so we ’re seek again for the first time in a decade or so . Perhaps they ’ll do better here in Lower Alabama . In Florida they ’d blossom a luck without setting more than a few seeds here and there .
On the other hand , we ’re bubble over with cucumber vine . Yesterday we put up 16 jars of Anethum graveolens hole , plus I have 2.5 gallon of relish in the electric refrigerator wait to be finish up and dismiss .
And the cucumber just keep on derive …
These cucumbers are a commixture of various pickle types , some from newly purchase seminal fluid , others from the seed we saved from last year . Landrace style .
Like the watermelons , which are now fruiting all over the Grocery Row Gardens .
There are melon that look like Sugar Baby , some that look like Charleston Grey , some that await like your received Walmart - fashion melon vine … and mixes in between . This is the third class my Word has been mixing up varieties and pass over them and the vigor in this year ’s vines is incredible .
Here ’s a aspect at the saddest part of the garden – the potato patch .
It ’s done for this year and it ’s time to plow it under and plant something else . Perhaps okra , or maybe some pumpkin hills . It ’s getting much later on than when we commonly institute pumpkins , but I suffer the carbon monoxide gas - proprietor ofMae Day Farm , which is within an minute of us , and he told me they ’re growing Seminoles by plant them in July . It ’s worth trying .
The zinnias are everywhere now , which prompt me it ’s clip to cut a few more for the table .
There ’s a bunch of diversity in the Grocery Row Garden , from onions to cuke to cassava to tobacco plant to cannas and sunflowers , goji berries , mulberries , apple , herbs , roots and more …
The herbaceous plant garden by the back patio is starting to fill in nicely .
We mixed in some wild flower , some dahlias , and a Liatris with the herbs to make the distance prettier .
Less pretty is the good deal of pumpkin vine that have extend angry out of the sure-enough compost good deal .
Yet we do n’t listen the productiveness when the pumpkins start to roll in !
Our mend of carrots is still develop solid , and we ’re get them when we need them .
And the cassava is really growing now .
The onions are acquire but not doing great . I ’ve never been practiced at growing bulbing onions . I do n’t even screw why we try .
specially when the tropical plant life get so well in the hot , Alabama summers .
Have a dandy Tuesday . We ’re endure all over town today , taking maintenance of errand and catch up around the homestead .
It ’s about time to do some more garden piece of work , but we ’ll wait for the sang-froid of the evening to do that . It ’s been hot and humid lately , without enough rain . Fortunately , we got all the Grocery Row Gardens mulch before the rain dried up for a calendar week .
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