Now you can really see a difference in the garden from last month to this month. The beans are growing up the trellis, the cucumbers have covered their trellis and the herbs have doubled in size even with harvesting. the nice neat patch of greens has turned into a tall unruly collection that shades the remaining lower growing greens protecting them from summer heat and giving me a longer harvest. And the tomato plants have filled in their cages and are starting to produce fruit.
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This week I focused on watering the garden as needed and weeding the herb garden. Herbs compete well against weeds, so I tend to weed them last, plus I can enjoy the scents and fragrance while weeding so it is my favorite part of the task. I always weed the rest of the garden first as a result.
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I started with the raised bed of thyme. Weeding thyme is a chose, as the thick mat of branches and leaves on the plants hid weeds well and reaching in to removed the plants at the base can be difficult. As a result i weed the thyme bed every time I visit the garden. It takes about 2 minutes to putt the dozen or so plants that stick up in and around the thyme, but it keeps them from taking root and becoming harder to pull later.
You can see how they plants are spreading into one another which is my favorite look. You notice the variation in leaf shape along with flower and stem color more when they are closer together.
Progress
The zinnias are now blooming. I took way to many pictures of this.
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The lemon basil has started producing
seed heads which are hard to contain
on this smaller leaf basil plant.
You have to clip off the seed heads on
basil as soon as you see them. Once
they put energy into seed production
the flavor and quality of the leaves
deteriorates.
As a result I now carry the scissors and
snip off the tops of all the basil plants during
each visit to the garden. It gives me a fist full
of leaves I can use in tonight's salad or main dish.
Overall we are in waiting mode. The plants are just about ready to begin producing items we can harvest in larger abundance. Just one more week and I will start getting more than one tomato at a time and a handful of beans.
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JULY
This week I focused on watering the garden as needed and weeding the herb garden. Herbs compete well against weeds, so I tend to weed them last, plus I can enjoy the scents and fragrance while weeding so it is my favorite part of the task. I always weed the rest of the garden first as a result.
I started with the raised bed of thyme. Weeding thyme is a chose, as the thick mat of branches and leaves on the plants hid weeds well and reaching in to removed the plants at the base can be difficult. As a result i weed the thyme bed every time I visit the garden. It takes about 2 minutes to putt the dozen or so plants that stick up in and around the thyme, but it keeps them from taking root and becoming harder to pull later.
You can see how they plants are spreading into one another which is my favorite look. You notice the variation in leaf shape along with flower and stem color more when they are closer together.
Progress
The zinnias are now blooming. I took way to many pictures of this.
The lemon basil has started producingseed heads which are hard to contain
on this smaller leaf basil plant.
You have to clip off the seed heads on
basil as soon as you see them. Once
they put energy into seed production
the flavor and quality of the leaves
deteriorates.
As a result I now carry the scissors and
snip off the tops of all the basil plants during
each visit to the garden. It gives me a fist full
of leaves I can use in tonight's salad or main dish.
Overall we are in waiting mode. The plants are just about ready to begin producing items we can harvest in larger abundance. Just one more week and I will start getting more than one tomato at a time and a handful of beans.
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