Countey garden: Corn, beans, & squash Summer

As mentioned in yesterday's post, I was going to dedicate some time in the garden today. 

I hoed around my rows of corn, beans, potatoes, cushaw, cucumbers and pumpkins. Afterwards, I strung up the plants so they can vine/grow vertically. 

There are other portions of this garden that I didn't highlight; but they have some onions and brassicas growing. It is just quite minimal. 

Next week, I'll focus on my other garden. I should have berries turning ripe and ready to harvest there soon. 

Floral photography Late June flowers

I have not put garden tasks into my schedule these past couple of weeks. Although, I am hoping I can at least work in one of my gardens tomorrow; hoeing, weeding, and stringing up around plants. 

When I'm home, I mostly have been caring for my houseplants. They love the heat and humidity but they don't love when the sun hits them in the evening hours (my porch gets evening sun where I keep the plants.) 

I have some Hibiscus flowers blooming on my porch...

And of course as you know, I also have a habit of taking photos of others' flower gardens...

My partner's mother is the nurturer of these beautiful flowers...

My grandma has worked festively on her flower beds...she likes petunias, impatiens, and begonias...

Here is a peach I picked, straight off the tree. It took a pool skimmer to get it. It was deliciously juicy. These peaches were at my other grandmother's. Here, I also admired the flower garden...

My grandmother's flower garden consisted of passion flowers, lilies, roses, yucca, and the dahlia.

Chocolate mint growing in patches of a flowing creek.

Everybody has their "thing" that they grow. And plants have their "spots" where they want to grow. 

Fruit & Veg Gardens in Early June Food Forest

On Sunday, I took the time to weed my gardens. I hoed around the rows of beans, corn, potatoes, peas, squash and cucumbers. My grandmother said she fertilized them and that we were going to have another week of rain showers. 

Here, I have Cushaw, cucumbers, potatoes, pumpkins, and peas growing amongst one another.

 

On this end of the garden, beans and corn are growing in long rows that I tilled a couple of weeks ago. 

My other garden has become quite the cilantro forest. This seems to be my most difficult garden this year as nothing seems to be flourishing here. I planted and sowes a plethora of radish and lettuce seed, but it has fizzled out fast. I haven't been able to harvest hardly any greens or radishes this year, so that's a bummer. 

I also planted lots of tomatoes and peppers amongst the garden beds so I'm hoping these do well at least as the hot summer has come full force. 

One thing that is making me hopeful for this year's garden harvest is the fruit from the trees this year. For the first time I have the plum and nectarine trees fruiting this year. Amongst these, the peach and pear trees are also growing decent sized fruits already. 

I was worried the birds would have already picked the blueberries, as these have grown large and in big cluster this year. My hope is that these are also very fruitful and I can actually harvest them before th birds get these AND all of the blackberries I am also growing.

What's weird, is that I have completely neglected my fruit trees and fruit bushes this year. I have not weeded nor mulched or composted around them at all! But, they seem to be doing just fine! 

Finally, I have arranged my house plants on an outdoor shelf that I have situated on the porch. This actually helps my cacti to avoid getting scorched by the sun when they're on a shaded porch on dark plastic shelving. And now that we have entered the month of June, I can keep the houseplants outdoors where it is hot and humid--jusy how they like it!