Things continue to grow and bloom in the 20th Avenue Garden. Here's an update of what's flowering and how the garden is coming along.
The garden itself is looking lush and is in full production. We built some little A-frame trellises for things to climb up on, like zucchinis and other squashes. And the strings you see are for the hops - now that the weather is warm, they will grow about 1 foot/day...so they can crawl along the strings and create an overhead canopy. Other than that, the corn is knee-high (and its the 4th of July), the tomatoes are coming online, the artichokes are about ready for harvest, and the lettuce, beets, radishes, greens, chamomile, peas, herbs, strawberries, and even the cherries are ready for eatin.
Bee love on the marigold.
Buddha overseeing the nasturtiums
soon-to-be tomatoes
soon-to-be tomatillos
pea flowers
leek flowers - which the bees love more than anything
thyme flowers
squash of some sort
chamomile
garlic harvest
more marigolds, of the striped variety
soon-to-be strawberries and artichoke
velvet queen watching over the Centenarian
a California poppy! (shhhh....)
round 3 of the frontyard lupine
awesome calendula
small sunflower
yellow calendulas
a Sunset Magazine-style backyard...right?
