Garden Update

Chris and I just returned from a wonderful trip to Montana/Wyoming and the Wolf Mountain Lodge at Padlock Ranch with some of the folks on my Dad's side of the family, but since some of said folks (cough, cough - you know who you are) haven't uploaded their pictures to our shared Google drive yet, I'll be posting those later.  As an amuse bouche, here's Harry Styles in his fashionable Western garb:

"I'm a cowboy.  Howdy, howdy, howdy."

But!  We haven't had a garden update in awhile, and I know loyal blog readers are totally jonesing to see how things are growing in the backyard.* A few weeks ago, we noticed that our smaller herb plot was doing fine in the full sun, mainly because our large acacia tree shades it in the afternoon hours.

Happy little herbs.
That's thyme on the left (a bit yellow), sage in front,
jalapenos on the back left, cilantro in the middle back,
and basil on the right.

The basil is particularly happy, and I can barely keep up with it.  We've been making a lot of pesto.

"I like the heat!"

We also have a bumper crop of jalapenos in the herb garden, and we had our first harvest from them last night, which Chris used to make salsa.

The first one was pretty spicy

During this same time, we noticed that while certain plants (the pumpkin, mostly) were doing fine in the full sun in the larger garden plot, others were starting to yellow.  Since the temps were climbing into the mid-90s, and we know it's only going to get hotter, we constructed a shade canopy the weekend before we left for Montana.  When we came home - a span of about two weeks - we found this explosion of plant life:

They seem to like the canopy

The pumpkins, growing like mad.

We think we might buy a wooden trellis and hammer it into the ground here.

We also found some buds on the tomatillo plant:

Teeny, tiny life

...the beginnings of some crookneck squash...

Although we might be growing our own cocoons here.
(Wilford Brimley says watch out for the 'beetus)

...and zucchini!

Hooray!

The oregano and chives we planted from seed in the herb garden never seemed to take off, and I'm afraid it's too hot for them now.  The eggplant in the bigger garden sprouted, but it seems to have withered away now that we've hit the triple digits.  The cucumbers are growing well and have flowers, so we're waiting for actual veggies to come from them, and the watermelons are growing well, too, but no fruits at this time.

Later!

Amy

* Not really, probably. But you get a blog post about it anyway.