MID SUMMER
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| Gimli son of Gloin |
We have more vertical gardening going on this year, with this cucumber trellis.
The cucumbers didn't do all that well but the ones we harvested were very tasty. We have a "bean arbor" on two sides of the garden as you enter into the space. The bean plants are only temporary (of course) but we plan on planting grapes to completely take over the arbor. Our tomato structure is supports at the end with three wires running horizontally through the beds and there are two sets of those running through the beds. It worked fairly well and I'm sure we'll tweak it for next year. The peppers and eggplants could use some support, so we'll work on that over the winter on what to do.
The eggplants did very well in the beginning and one variety continued through the whole season but the other variety stopped producing fruit but was still producing flowers when I pulled it out.
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| Farmer Bob |
Next year the bean trellis will be our grape trellis. Bob is starting a vineyard.
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| The bean trellis |
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| First tomato ripening |
These calendula flowers were bedding plants from Off Beet Farm and were an amazing success. They just kept growing and producing flowers even after the rest of the plants were all done. We really enjoyed them.
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| Calendula |
