My first "homegrown salad" of the season...onions, tomatoes, basil, snow peas.In one of my last posts I said it was about to rain.
I think it did rain, then. Probably a pretty good rain. I don't remember it too well, because it's the last real rain we've had! Yes, while rain falls profusely upon other parts of the country, we are in desperate need.
My SFG has not seen a real rain since I finished it. A few scattered sprinkles, and city water from our hose. That's it. I'm positive everything would be doing much better with real rain - it always does. But I guess we're not doing too badly.
So far I've harvested grape and cherry tomatoes, snow peas, one cayenne pepper, and one eggplant. My green onions are doing well, and some of them have even grown fairly large bulbs. The basil in the SFG is doing great, although what's in the actual herb garden is not. The cucumbers are growing well although the one fruit that set AND grew, died pretty fast. I have since tied them up and they seem to be doing better.
Now, please do a rain dance for our area??
Gaura lindheimeri "Whirling Butterfiles"
The Waterfall garden is looking great!
Something is eating my patio tomatoes.
I love to eat these right off the vine, mmmm
My audience
Rose "St. Patrick"
Lemon blossoms...
...and young lemons
Sweet 100s ripening on the vine
Japanese eggplant. I harvested it 3 days later.
View into the "Secret Garden". The photo doesn't do it justice.