Garden Fazool, June 2012

As of June 30th, 2012...

 Zucchini Flowers on my Striata Zucchini (Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds)

 Open.

Here they are in the Zucchini Garden that I put in this year (on May 8th.)

As of June 19th.

And, ten days later (June 29th), look how much they grew in ten days!

Quite a nice tomato going on the left, there, too.  That one was a gift from my realtor!

Thanks, Bob!

My Rainbow Chard (from seed), in the garden below:

Look at those artichokes! I'm not sure if they will flower or not, but they are cool looking.  And, my Scarlet Runners have taken off up the fence.  Here's the garden in April, it's hard to believe what happens in three months.

Scarlet Runner Flowering.

 Beans on the far side fence + another little tomato behind!

Tomatoes going very well along the side beds! 

And, all the flowers...

 Bee Balm

Not sure? It grew up in the front.  Kinda looks like a purple fox glove type flower.

The front!  Fig tree is on the far right behind that bloomed sunflower head.

Sunflowers

Waiting. 

Dark Horse.

Hydrangea.

I adore the sprightly blue flowers.

Lavender Flowers, With Bees.  

And, my fig tree, loaded with tender figs!

This is why I welcome the heat of summer.

What are you all hoping to harvest?

Garden Fazool: Over the Top

If you guys remember, in April, I planted organic tomatoes from seed:

Dug a little tomato garden:

And put the one month old seedlings in (this was in May)...

And today, here is what we've got:

Tomatoes reaching over the top of my fence! 

 Tons of little, green marbles :-) 

Starting to redden...

And the figs, you ask? Here's the tree two months ago:

And now?

And it's loaded with figs!

Does anyone have ripe, red tomatoes already? Anyone with ripe figs yet? My figs seem particularly slow to ripen (though that may be a factor of the enormous amount of fruit on the tree at one time, and the coolish summer we've had (until now, of course :-).

Stay cool in this heat! Yesterday it was so hot and hazy that all my pics came out with a fog over them.  It was 103 yesterday, but this was taken in the evening when it had "cooled" to 100

Today, still very hot but a bit more tolerable at about 92 in the shade this morning.

Have a great week!  I'll try to get a food post up soon, I've got lots of stuff to share!

<3 Dawn

Garden Fazool: The Tomato Garden is PLANTED!

So, I woke up this morning and made myself some breakfast:

Three minutes on the first side...

One minute on the second side... 

Wha-La! Isa's Banana Flapjacks with Walnuts (from Vegan Brunch) with Yves Canadian "Bacon" and Trader Joe's Vermont Maple Syrup.

Then, being that I was fueled up with delicious vegan vittles, I noticed this:

So, I built this:

And added them:

Doesn't she look so much happier in the ground?

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  Would love to hear about your cooking and gardening adventures!

<3 Dawn