July 9

I started this small garden last year with tomatoes, cabage and bell peppers. there are pictures in my other blog. I thought the tomatoes had all just died back naturally but this year I found spider mites on them and they were dieing out again. 

 I really loved the yellow pear tomato vine, but it was destroyed by the mites and white flies too. I tried spraying garlic, hot pepper, soapy water on them but it was too late. I did save some seeds successfully though and I already have new starts.

The cherry tomato that just appeared last year came back this year, and it was great, but it got hit by the mites too. There is a bit of it left I'm trying to save from the mites. 

You can see the super green part still trying to make it. The dead stuff is also from the other "gardeners" pulling it back off the fence and breaking it. Grrr. lol.

This ribbed tomato is doing very well, but it came up from my compost pile. Just outside the box actually, but it's roots are in there.

 

 My bell peppers are doing better since I sprayed that concoction on them, and they are getting more light now that the crazy tomato vine is down. But I did put some corn back there against the fence for evening shade.

We cleaned out the other flower bed along the neighbors fence/wall. I moved some of the strawberry runners to the front of the bed and there is a volunteer tomato doing alright in there that I am going to use to work on my pruning skills.

 added some more flower bulbs and put peas near that old chain link fence.

strawberries are near the rock border in front.

that's my spaghetti squash in the middle. I put some upper ground sweet potato squash and white marrow squash seeds in there too. I hope they sprout, it may be too hot.

I know I do alot of my gardening when it's too hot. I'm such a procrastinator. I'm working on that. :)

Last month we put in some "Carrie Corn", Golden Bantam Sweet Corn that my friend Carrie sent us. It's non-gmo and I couldn't seem to find that anywhere else. She hooked me up with a link to more. http://www.rareseeds.com

That's where I got the upper ground sweet potato squash that I can't wait to make pie from.

 the corn in June 2014

 The corn now, July 9 2014

 some watermelon 

 Pumpkin, Big Max

 That's a sunflower behind the pumpkin. I got like 3 of the sunflowers to come up out of the entire envelope of seeds. only the one pumpkin came up out of 4, but it's so big, I'm glad about that.

Most of the watermelon seeds came up. I'm going to have to pull some out I think, not enough room for all of them.

If I get any to harvest I'd love to share my seeds with anyone who wants some. Free.