Weeds, weeds, and more weeds, my kingdom for a weed wacker!
But seriously, from a very rainy start, we’ve moved on to
the sultry days of late June/early August. I’ve had a pretty busy week what
with the birthday party and the actual birthday family dinner and swim lessons,
coordinating chicken pick-ups and egg drop-offs, and being pregnant - pretty
par for the course around here really. I’ve also recently been offered a
part-time off-homestead job working with English Language Learner (ELL) students,
so I’m preparing and excited about that as well.
While I’ve been occupied with all of that, my papi has been
mowing and weed wacking like a maniac, and my mom has been super busy tending
the garden. She is a gardening goddess really, so I thought I’d treat you all
to a short, end-of-week post with garden update photos. Hope you enjoy!
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| Sometimes the dill plants itself - this blossom that was bright yellow in June is now brown and depositing dill seeds each time it is bumped or shaken |
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| The tomato and pepper plants are finally beginning to produce! |
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| Jalapeños - mom weeded this bed, but the weeds are encroaching from the paths |
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| Some beds are still covered in plastic to "control the weeds" It's safe to say the plastic has had only limited success longterm |
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| Broccoli (and weeds) |
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| More broccoli (and more weeds!) |
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| Beautifully weeded tomato bed, compliments of mom The hover flies are being truly obnoxious around this bed today |
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| Beets - also weeded by mom (are you sensing a theme???) |
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| Cabbage bed and two beds covered with scraps of landscaping cloth (seems to work better than the regular plastic) AKA I weeded a bed, it's a miracle!!! |
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| Everbearing Strawberries - the plants where I weeded are producing well, but I need to weed the rest of the bed for a third time |
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| Green tomatoes are coming on - can't wait to make some tomato sauce |
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| I used some of the landscaping cloth to kill grass and make a path to the far end of the garden |
