Our garden in July 2009 is a lush green with highly productive string beans, squash (four kinds) cucumbers (three kinds) and Japanese Eggplant.
Betty can pick baskets of tomatoes.
You can see the harvest and the now ripening green tomatoes.
While Jim doesn’t actually pick squash, it seemed right to picture him with his favorite pattipans.In the background you can see the spaghetti squash vines that have given lots of good eating although they have stopped producing at the end of July. To the left is our seven foot tall tomatoes and our birdbath that is a watering spot for numerous small birds and a bath for the occasional big bird.
The pomegranate bush, a present from Ursi, is also thick with blooms and maturing pomegranates. The humming birds like to sip from the bright red blossoms when they get tired of sugar water from our three feeders. Unfortunately, the fruit doesn't get big enough to eat.
What is not pictured is our pole beans reach up 8 feet and screen our deck from the sun. We have enjoyed lots of beans.
We were given two okra plants and we will wait until long in the summer for some nice okra to fry.
We regret that we do not have a fig tree or an avocado tree, both of which would be nice.
