Long twilight with clear skies. A little weeding, a little watering, and just enjoying the garden.
Coneflowers are taking on their purple hue.
Monarda flowers are opening. I harvested a couple of dozen flower heads and set them on a ceramic plate to dry. They make fantastic tea and a stunning centerpiece floating on a pitcher of iced tea in the summer.
Starting to harvest garlic. Not all of it yet. Honestly, it needs another week. It is running late with the late cool spring and cool summer we are having, but I needed a bunch of heads dry next week, so I put a few dozen on a rack to dry. These are all a year out from being grown out from bulbils and I am already starting to get size out of them. Biggest so far is about 2.5 inches across. In another two years these should be giving me heads close to 4 inches across.
These are some of the Dog Yard volunteer tomatoes. The potato leaf ones are much larger and sturdier than the regular leaf plants from the F2 grow out. Looking forward to seeing how production and taste are with them compared to the F1 last year.
Largest fruits last year were close to a pound on the F1s, and the potato leaf plants are very tall and sturdy.
This is a row of (mostly) potato leaf F2s from a Rumi Banjan cross. The regular leaf ones are doing well, but not as vigorous. The regular leaf ones are not growing right next to the compost pile either though which might have something to do with it. 
Had a nice mosquito hunter come by this morning (and here you thought the post was just about this evening) and luckily the point and shoot focused on the right point.
Purple Podded Blauchakker peas are starting to dry down. I have harvested a couple dozen pods so far, and they are finishing drying inside.
The Swenson’s Seedless table graps are forming beautiful small tight clusters. The plant that is 4 years old has more than 20 bunches on it and is trellising wonderfully. The plants on their second year are putting up good main vines this year and the kids are excited about eating more than a few handfuls of grapes from their own yard.
And that is it for today. Got a lot going on tomorrow and I have to get squirrely kids to bed that are not going there while Dad is typing away at the computer.
