July in the Garden

Blackberries on the new bushes!

 Strawberry beds weeded, cut back, de-runnered, and woodchipped post-season.

 No apples this year!

 New asparagus plants are looking good!

 VOLES! Attacked the carrots last year.  This year started with the potatoes.  And now the beets!  Putting cayenne pepper in their burrows to discourage them.

 Success this year with eggplant!

 Sweet potatoes.  Hoping the below ground part is as great as the abundance of leaves.

 Hot peppers!

 The first early tomatoes!

 Some of the potato plants are dying already.  Maybe due to the potato bugs.  Will need to start digging some of the potatoes soon.

 San Marzano and Roma tomatoes still green, but plentiful!

 Green zucchini plant already died, and now the yellow zucchini looks bad.  Just too hot and dry this summer??  But we have harvested a lot of zucchinis already.

 Terrible cucumber year.  Again, wonder if it's the heat.  No pickles this year!

 Acorn squash and pumpkins doing well!

 Onions about ready to harvest!

 Beans!  Lots of beans!

 The herb garden looks great.

 First year to grow curly kale, my new favorite veggie for salads.

 Pulled up the pea pods when they were done.  Planted pole beans along the trellis, and shell beans along the outside of bed 1.

 End of July harvest day...potatoes, onions, corn (not very good), beans, tomatoes, beets, and herbs.