How Does Your Garden Grow?

As temperatures soar here, I find myself diligently watering the front and back gardens morning and night. The one downfall of having all those huge shrubs removed - now I need to water my flowers and plants, and weed the garden.

The overgrown shrubs that were here never needed any such care, but then, they looked overgrown and uncared for, too. Even with majorly trimming them back last year, they couldn't be trimmed back far enough. So now I have lovely rose bushes and other flowers, that require watering, and the beds need to be weeded at least once a week.

While in the back garden, where I've planted a half-assed vegetable garden, I noted that one of the three zucchini plants Mom started for me has a small zucchini on it. W00t! I love zucchini and frequently use it in place of cucumber, as I'm not so fond of it. Also, zoodles are one of my favourite dishes.

I call it my half-assed garden as I got started really late, and only planted two tomato plants and 3 zucchini plants. I had thought of planting green beans (or maybe yellow, as I really love those), but as the bushes were pulled out late and the weather turned cold and wet, I didn't get around to it in time. And I just wasn't into it.

Next year, I'll start earlier, get a bunch of top soil, and plant some salad fixings. At my farm up north, I had a tremendous veggie garden, and despite the heat, grew amazing lettuce. It was awesome to go out and pick the lettuce, tomatoes, green onion, radishes, etc and be able to have a home-grown salad every day. Maybe next year I'll get my act together.

One of my tomato plants this year has a tomato that should be ready to pick tomorrow. I probably could have picked it today, but thought I'd give it one more day. Yay! My first homegrown tomato of the year. My mouth is already watering anticipating it's warm juiciness, fresh off the vine.

Tomorrow, very early, like maybe at 4:30am, I'm going out for my bike ride before it gets to darn hot. Today, the only time I went outside was to return library books and pick up some fresh fruit at the market. That's the only down-side of living here - all the wonderful fruit is ready at the same time. Blueberries, peaches, raspberries, strawberries, nectarines, plums, cherries, apricots - all ripe and ready right now. I love all those fruits, but simply can't eat that much in a week.

Yellow beans are a favourite vegetable of mine, and I picked some up today and then was given some fresh beans from my neighbour's garden as he's grown too many. I absolutely love this friendly neighbourhood and great community. What a difference from my previous abode.

So now I have enough food to last me into next week and I just hope I can get motivated to cook it, as right now, with it being as hot as it is, I don't feel like eating, never mind cooking.
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We're drowning in salad and I'm looking forward to tomatoes, peas and hopefully carrots and gherkins/cucumbers. I don't think we will get any aubergines.

Planting lots of flowers which I grew from seed and I'm a bit worried when we're going on holidays - setting up the garden completely new is a lot of work and I don't want to see the flowers dying. blues Neighbours on both sides said that they will water when we're gone, so hopefully the majority of plants will survive. conversing

Enjoy your garden - if you want to cut down on weeding, you could put bark mulch around your flowers. I will wait until the perennials are a big bigger and get a trailerload.

Nothing beats growing your own veg. bouquet
Hi Imp,

Here in Wisconsin, a lot of veggies and fruits are in season! Yesterday got some of the tastiest and sweetest corn I have ever had! It was beyond delicious!

My favorite time of the year!thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up
I fed up this year no figs or peaches, Apple's and pears next to nothing and veggies are not worth mentioning as they just haven't appeared.doh
yes this year me garden has taken on a new life flowers everywhere all in high bloom strawberries tomatoes and me worn out from watering is a ban on water here so I has to import from a river is a long walk with a bucket in each hand
KN - your garden sounds like it's been a labour of love! Hopefully your neighbours will keep up with the watering and it'll be just as lush as it is now.
G-Jim - yup, it's that time of year! I had two ears of corn for lunch yesterday, it was so darn good. I love this time of year for all the fresh produce.
JimN - I'm not into planting anything else this year. I like sugar peas, but I have no interest in growing them. At least, not this year. grin
Fay - I've never tried to grow an eggplant, so I have no idea how it would do. I've got a fairly small plot of garden, which suits me fine, and what's growing there right now is just dandy. Next year I'll consider growing other things.

Re: the dead bee. That fascinated me, to see that bee on the dead flower, and it preserved as if it was still alive. I'm amazed that it even caught my eye, as there was so much other live stuff around there.
Emmy - well that doesn't sound good. I think I'd be really discouraged if nothing of mine grew. Any idea why?
johnjim - ugh, I think I'd be letting the garden die if I had to pack water. I did that enough upcountry for the horses when the pipes froze. Never again. Not for anything. laugh
A good year for gemsquash. Can't get them in Ireland, so I grow my own. They've thrived in the heatwave. Yay! Spaghetti squash aren't doing too badly either. Battling mildew on them, though. Tomatoes are looking very promising so far. dancing
Not so hot now so plants in the garden are doing better especially the vegetable plants and less watering has also to be done as the ground isn't drying so fast. But still gardening in the buff grin
Total lack of tender love, frost at the wrong time, wind before any fruit set set and chickens got a taste for blueberries and raspberries, but looked today and found a few figs. As for the veg I've no idea.
emmy1 and if the greenhouse door is left open the dog goes in and eats the cucumbers while still growing on the plants. scold Must remember to shut the door. professor
No green house, just a fruit cage in an attempt to keep the birds off but did have a dog that ate raspberries and fallen Apple's.
: off my hosepipe reaches the roses but not the veggies, says a lot about my priorities, yes I had lovely roses rolling on the floor laughing
emmy1 did your dog eat the figs as well as I did know one dog who did that. I have quite a few roses but it is only the vegetables/fruit that gets watered.
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