The Midsummer Garden

It has been quite some time since my last post, as I find summer is more about the living of life than its documentation.   The garden has gone from mostly to potential to actual production.  We have eaten our salad crops fairly regularly this month.  The winner of the new crop of the year award is kholrabi, which was easy to grow and delicious with Mrs. Gardeners famous dill dip.

Mrs. Gardener has also been highly motivated in the weeding an composting department, so that our garden still looks show worthy.  It was a very popular tour stop at the graduation party a few weeks back.

Very soon we will be getting raspberries, though in smaller quantities than previous  years.  The new growth is good, so next year should be back to our normal bounty.

Our one apple did not make it, and strawberries have been a bust, and are soon to be plowed under for good.

The pole beans are growing at a phenomenal pace and have shot up my lattice in a matter of days, and are soon to reach the top.   Where will they go then I wonder?

We had a pesky deer eat the leaves off the squash a few days ago, so I applied Deer Scram and hope that discourages future visits.  Meanwhile the squash has grown back rapidly.  Hard to keep a good squash down!

The foreground of this picture to the left is pumpkin, the far end is zucchini, neither of which the deer ate--they went right to the squash---go figure.