Finally, a summer garden update. So many sweet little plants! I am so excited for all the veggie goodness coming our way.
El Grande jalapenos with pole beans.
I sprouted the pole beans myself in our laundry room. This prevented birds from digging up ungerminated beans like last year, and also allowed me to share with gardening friends, as I ended up with way more beans than I could plant. Instead of planting on their own, they've all gone in with my peppers in huge containers, caged with a central pole.
Hungarian wax pepper, already with a blossom! (Planted here with Anaheim chilies and Blue lake beans.)
I am giddy at the sight of this CUCUMBER MADNESS! Growing three different kinds total, seven plants altogether, because sometimes a girl has certain cucumber based desires that must be quenched.
This was taken after they were first planted. After seeing them done on the Free Farm, I asked my dad to help me devise some sort of vertical contraption. It's brilliant--these wire frames fit right inside the troughs. I have two troughs going for two tiers of cucumber plants all at once!
These are snap peas in with a silver fir tomato. Despite the bad luck with tomatoes last year, I am determined to try again and planted a total variety in containers: green zebra, a sweet Chelsea cherry tomato, and the silver fir. Speaking of which...
...a welcome sight!
I am already having visions of the salsa I will be scarfing come summer.
