Pink lilacs that are 20 feet tall put on blooms this week at the very top. But this week it put on new blooms almost to say to the heat, “I’m not done yet!” A butterfly had stopped in for a drink of the nectar in this photo. Most of the green of the plants is gone or turned to brown. The petunia plants in the barrel planters are almost dead. The kids found a baby lizard and spent some time holding it and letting it crawl up their arms before setting it free on a tree trunk. We hope they make it through this heat and put on some fruit soon before it is too late. We planted some Brandywine Heirloom tomatoes and bell peppers where the onions and lettuce used to be. The kids decided we needed to give a few plants some water. There hasn’t been a day go by this summer that we didn’t have lots of cucumbers on the kitchen counter and sliced up for supper. I am thankful we have had several cucumbers ripen daily all summer long. Our tomato harvest! The harvest is small, but not too bad from our small garden.įound a cricket hiding upside down on the cucumber plants. They are growing 30 feet up in the trees, so I wont be able to harvest them. It is lovely to listen to the frogs and cicadas even though it has been so hot.įound these wild grapes had dropped on the ground, just below the garden. I don’t know if it is behaving this way because of the extreme heat or if this is normal for this plant because I have not grown this species before. Some of these runners are 30 foot long and loaded with blossoms, yet seem to only produce 1 actual fruit ball. I have never seen a plant send out so many runners and then every foot or so it has another set of roots it sends into the ground. More of the round yellow orbs that might become pumpkins. The sweet potatoes in the corner of Garden B are not doing much. The plants are struggling in the heat and many of the leaves and stems have died.Ī few of the sunflowers in Garden B have bloomed. Several have already been eaten by something before they get any bigger than a baseball. However, these start out as smooth yellow balls and then turn a peach color. I am used to a pumpkin that starts out green and then turns orange. We are still thinking these could be a kind of pumpkin. We had a cookout and grilled some of our garden veggies including zucchini, yellow squash, red onions, Romano tomatoes, okra, and we cut up fresh cucumbers and later we made smores.Īll of the fresh food was delicious and it was a beautiful summer evening to enjoy spending time together. So far, only a few have been ready every couple of days. Romano tomatoes in the garden are ready to harvest. The sunflowers are almost ready to bloom. We think these could be a kind of pumpkins, but not sure. With the heat we are having, I don’t know how long the plants can handle the intense sun and heat and if they will put on any more blooms or not. The rest of them should be ready for harvest soon. July 8, 2017īut some starting to turn orange and we have had a few of them turn red. We haven’t seen any rain for several weeks and have had intense heat and the garden isn’t producing as much fruit and vegetables as I had hoped. The temperatures have been in the 90’s everyday and though we had a wet spring, and the plants put on a lot of stems and leaves, they didn’t produce much actual fruit. This has been the hottest summer we have ever seen. This is part of my Garden 2017 series of posts. Thought I would share some pictures from our garden projects from July.
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