The bunny is happy to have her dog back, and Piper enjoys the bunny’s attentions as well.
The front garden grew a lot, as did the weeds. The temps were much cooler than they had been right before we left, but when the heat broke, it was not then followed by the usual thunderstorms. The lack of rain did not seem to cause any suffering in the gardens since it was 20 degrees cooler than it had been, so I am thankful for that. Even the plants grown in pots are fine with no wilting.
One Rumi Banjan tomato plant is showing smaller fruit, and ripening earlier than the rest of the plants. Just in case it is an F1 chance cross I will save seeds from this one separately, but the fruits taste wonderful and the plant is loaded with them.
The Gallina Tomatoes were stripped of ripe fruit by my daughter Phoebe as soon as we got home, but I did find one that should be ready to pick tomorrow for a photo.
Left side: Joe Lauerer tomato. Had a ripe one before we left, but none waiting when we got home.
Middle row, front to back: Nasturtium, Basil, and Tollie’s sweet peppers. All doing well.
Right: Black Trifelle tomato, Volunteer tomato, and Terhune tomato. Fruits set, none ripe.
Again, the lack of rainfall has left them none the worse for wear.
Pond is deep green, and surface evaporation was about 4″ while we were gone. Fish are fine, there are frogs in the pond, and the daylillies are happily blooming along with the Monarda, Cone Flowers, Milkweed, and a few others.
The hot peppers from Michelle Grannes are showing really unique foliage. Almost as if they are splashed with bits of paint on the leaves. I could have grown them as ornamental plants.
The melons have sprawled over all of the old garlic bed, except the part where you can see the rows of emerged Bok Choi cabbage which I planted just 3 days before we left, and need to be thinned already.
Just a fun shot of a dragon using one of the Purple Blauchakker Pea pods as his hunting perch.
Puddy Man hunting from a sheltered spot between Nell’s Sweetheart tomatoes and a bed of Siberian Hot Peppers. The row at the back is Super Canabec tomatoes, and they are growing much larger than they have any other year for me, and are absolutely loaded with fruits. I wove them in with ties to a long row of bamboo stakes, and am hoping it is adequate to keep them upright through the season.
The experimental garden, which has Mandan Red beans twining through the tomato foliage and fixing the plants to the various supports is doing wonderfully, though it will be some work finding fruits once I start harvesting.
There is a lot more, but the camera battery has not been charged since before we left on vacation and it gave up on me. I will get more photos later of the general progression of things.