Gourds & Squash growing bigger

 This has been kind of a depressing garden this summer. I can say that I have been able to harvest some potatoes, beans, and cucumbers so far; but it has been an internal tragedy of mine that I haven't harvested peppers, tomatoes or anything cool this summer. 

I have gourds, cushaw and corn growing now buy I'm nervous that the corn isn't going to be worth harvesting and the gourds will rot. It seems that many of the squash have already rotted; and I had tons of peaches that are rotting on the tree before they even can ripen. 

Peach & pears + Squash & gourds in August

Yesterday, I worked in the garden placing cardboard on each of my cushaw squash and gourds growing. I didn't take pictures of the cushaws, but here are a few of the little gourds growing...

Today, I investigated my other garden. I was not pleased. I hadn't been able to tend to it in months. It was out of control with weeds that were taller than houses. But, almost all of my peach and pear trees had fruit. 

There were probably hundreds of peaches, but the majority were rotten or rotting. 

Grandma canned the beans and potatoes I harvested last week...

Here I have harvested some cucumbers from the garden. 

I aim to pickle some of these cucumbers I harvested yesterday too. I was gifted some peppers, so I want to pickle the peppers with the cucumbers. 

Vertical gardening in the veggie gardens & enchanting flower gardens

Today, I weeded the veggie garden. Additionally, I hoed more rows of beans for the rows that didnt germinate. I laid out fencing to put up tomorrow around the beans. I put fencing against the rows of cushaw plants. I have rows of corn and cucumber to post and string up as well tomorrow. 

In my other garden, I cut back the weeds around the blueberry plants and started pylling up old lettuce and radish plants. Still, I have much work there to do in order to rotate crops from spring to summer crops. It was a busy day, and it all starts again tomorrow to work. 

Cucumbers in grow bags & potatoes growing in buckets

Potatoes

Corn and beans

Tomaotes 

Corn

Corn

Cushaws tied to fencing 

Tomatoes

Cockscomb flowers

Late June veggie & flower garden

Here are some photos from Sunday when I took pictures of the garden. This garden is at my grandparents. They try there best to maintain it for me since I don't live a mile from them anymore. Grandma waters, fertilizes and adds some soil to the cucumbers in grow bags and the potatoes in grow buckets. She has been fertilizing l, or what she calls "side dressing" the cushaw, tomatoes, corn, beans, and potatoes in the ground.

I have some cucumbers growing in the ground, but these are in the grow bags which I set up a trellis around.

Cucumbers 

Cucumbers in grow bags

Not pictured is the grow buckets of potatoes growing. Theres more than 20 buckets and grow bags with potatoes growing. Potatoes are also growing in the ground across from the beans.

Below are pictures of the rows of cushaw and some corn. I had sowed cucumbers and watermelon in the rows too amongst the corn and cushaw, but I'm not sure if they're growing. 

Cushaw, cucumber, melon, corn

Cushaw, cucumber, melon

Beside the cushaws, tomatoes are tied to tobacco sticks. 

Tomaotes 

Tomatoes 

Potatoes, tomaotes, corn

Beans and corn

The tomatoes are growing closely with the rows of corn. Across from the tomatoes and corn are the rows of beans. Varieties I planted were Half runners, Hidatsa, and Turkey craw. I have the tobacco sticks up to mark off rows for the beans but I still need to put up the fencing for them to grow.

Beans

Here are some rows of potatoes growing in the ground. 

Potatoes 

Lastly, the flower gardens are looking beautifully vibrant despite a hog infiltrating the flower gardens last week. Here are a few pictures that I took Sunday on Fathers day.

Gladiolus 

Wildflower garden

Bee balm