Besides weeding every couple of days and feeding every couple of weeks, the farm is growing on it's own without much intervention from me. I don't really have a farm, but that's what my New Jersey Hubby calls it. The only animals are two cats that enjoy fertilizing the garden when I'm not looking. Nevertheless, I am wondering if the NEW RAISED BED will contain the plants growing in it.
The squash, especially is taking off. The leaves are gigantic. It's hard to see in this shot because I was focusing on the lovely blossom.
I have my first squash blossoms!
The pole beans are climbing and doing great. No signs of beans yet though.
The beans are in the middle of the two squash plants.
The
Heirloom tomato plant in the middle has outgrown it's cage. I think I
really needed a trellis to support it. I have green tomatoes on each
plant, Roma, Heirloom, and Yellow.
All in all, the garden looks very different than a few weeks ago.
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve". - Max Planck
There's nothing quite like going on vacation to get a different perspective. It was good for me to stop looking at my garden and mentally urging everything to grow. Our family took a camping vacation
with 10 other family members. Enough said. However, we visited
Steamboat Springs, CO, and it is absolutely stunning there.
I was so in the moment and busy with
so many other people that I did not take many photos. Here are a couple
that show off the area's beauty. Indian
Paintbrush, Daisies, Columbine, and Lupine were all flowering.
I
took a trail ride around Steamboat Lake. To say it was scenic would be
faint praise.
It
has taken me 3 days to get to look at my garden. Not too bad! There
were definitely weeds, but the mulch of peat moss and grass is doing
it's job. The grass clippings that I have been curing were ready, and
this evening I mixed them with peat moss, and spread my third batch
around the garden. The green/brown coloring of the mulch is not as
striking looking as straw that I used last year. It blends in with everything else in the
garden.
The beans are climbing up the trellis that I made for them. These are my first pole beans, so I am very excited to see them!
Tonight we had some baby lettuce and radishes from our garden. Delish.
"The most serious gardening I do would seem very strange to an onlooker, for it involves hours of walking round in circles, apparently doing nothing." - Helen Dillo
