Garden news

We are done with peas and spinach. I had better luck with spinach than I ever have had before (usually I get none) but didn't have a great year for peas. The snow peas (new to me) flopped on top of the shell peas in the big bed, resulting in unappiness for both, even though I did a good job with the pea brush. I'm thinking 4-foot chicken wire on stakes for the snow peas next year, since I did like them. (The kids, however, are such fans of shell peas that they disbelieved in snow peas, and would open the pods.)

Replacing the peas are basil, watermelon, cantaloupe, squash, and green beans.



The green beans are the same as in the other bed, Medina, a bush variety. I think I didn't realize that my purple beans are a climbing bean; they are starting to climb the lattice with the pole beans and are about to flower.



Tomatoes are doing well, some flowering. Cucumbers have started to set fruit, despite the continuing waves of lubbers in the front garden that eat the flowers. The zucchini are struggling, on the other hand, and I'm not sure why. Today's a rainy day; just what Mother Nature ordered.