It's time for another update. Actually, it's way past time. The thing about a garden is that there are mostly small changes every day so there are not Big Changes (tm) to log. But there are a lot of small changes.
Our garden is overall doing pretty well. We've harvested a few things now including Lettuce, Spinach, Sugar Snap Peas and today, our first Zucchini. Parsley, self sown Basil and Cilantro are ready to pick. In a day or three the first yellow squash will be ready to pick. I spent some time training cucumbers on a trellis made of twine strung between two poles. There are a lot of small cukes on the vines. I should get some pix of those with the blossoms still attached. There are wax beans that will soon be ready to pick. Other than that, the beans don't really look so good. Some of the plants are wilting and two big healthy ones got knocked down by something passing through the garden. Beets remain unscathed by critters, but some of those are wilting as well. It's been a while since we got much rain so I've been spot watering by placing a dribbling hose close to plants that look particularly stressed.
I've made a bunch of tomato cages out of concrete reinforcing wire. They look a lot sturdier than the ones I saw at the store. And they have ten spikes that stick into the ground instead of only three. Most of the tomatoes look good and a few of them are already setting fruit. None look anywhere close to ripening.
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