Thankful For Iced Tea!
Good grief! It is so unbelievably hot! I know, I get it, it's summer. It's going to be hot. It happens every year. It shouldn't come as a surprise. But this is a different kind of heat. I'm used to extremely high humidity and there's usually a little breeze. The air for the last few days has been so dry and still. It's as hot in the shade is it is in the sun. But the sun is so intense it starts stinging my skin after just a few minutes. I'm going through a gallon and a half of iced tea a day!
The pictures in this post are a little dark because I came out at 6:15 this morning to poke around in the garden while it was still cool enough to take a breath. So there's a shadow on everything.
Good Morning, Glories!
The morning glories are happy to see you!
Let's Start With Some of the New Guys
This is my first year growing sorghum, and I've only attempted corn one other time several years ago. But my very young son got it with the weed eater. I didn't plant much this year and there was a lower germination rate than I expected, but I'm enjoying watching it grow.
Next Up, Viney Things!
The viney things are doing well. I got a late start on my Scarlet runner beans, that were sent to me by 
It looks like I've got some volunteer lemon cucumbers. I hope they don't cross with my other cucumbers, I'd like to save the seed.
We'll be having patty pan squash pretty soon. The plants are loaded with yellow blossoms. I'm thinking of plucking a couple off and stuffing them for dinner tonight.
Peppers and 'Matas
These are the black Hungarian peppers that Adam got at the planting festival at Baker Creek. They're comin' on strong with no signs of slowing down. I love the purple blossoms!
The tomatoes are doing wonderfully! I didn't label them, so I can't identify all of them positively by variety yet, but I can pick out a few.
To right: Waggoner blue-green. These will be dark blue, almost black on the outside and bright lime-green on the inside. Perfectly round, these tomatoes inspire some plate fright to my non-foody friends, but that's okay. More for me!
Dead center: Douchova pepper tomatoes. Just like a bell pepper, when these bright yellow tomatoes are cut open, there is no juice. Just thick tomato walls and the seeds are clustered in the center of the hollow fruit on a thin membrane. So cool! Great for people who don't like tomatoes based on their sometimes ' slimy' texture.
Left of center are the atomic grapes. This is my first year growing these tomatoes and I'm excited to taste them. The vibrantly multi-colored image of them in the Baker Creek catalog sold them to me.
Bottom: Black Vernissage. I've received several free envelopes of these seeds over the last few years with the purchase of Baker Creek seeds. This is the first year I'm growing them.
I'm growing 14 varieties of tomatoes this year and I'm anxious to start seeing all of the vibrant colors from the pink icicle to the Berkeley tie dye!
Thanks for checking in on my garden with me!
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