My garden in July 2013

The garden is doing very well. All of my lettuce came in strong and my spinach has already bolted. I am going to pull it out and plant new seeds today.

My tomato plants are huge!! I may have planted them too close together in an effort to maximize the space I have. I hope they get enough air flow between and under them. So far they seem good and healthy with lots of little green tomatoes starting to grow.

My corn is getting taller already in the raised garden by July than they every got by fall last year. So this is definitely a better location for them.

My potatoes came up good and are blossoming. I hilled them some the other day.


I have been enjoying the thinning out process of my beets these past weeks. Love the beet tops steamed for lunch! They are getting bigger and healthier than last year as well. I hilled them a little bit as well.

My apple tree is doing ok but less apples than I had hoped. With the harsh cut back we did to it, I am pleased with having any though. The tree is healthy too.

The Cherry tree had some cherries too. They were bright red but very bitter still. I was leaving them on for a bit to see if they sweeten up. Then they disappeared! :S I'm pretty sure it was the squirrels though because when I went out to check them, there was a squirrel staring at me and standing on the fence right behind the tree... :S Any suggestions?

My herb garden needs to be weeded but i am unsure what the herbs look like as they grow up so other than the obvious ones, I am unsure what to weed. I am not too worried about the garden though as it is kind of an experiment this year. I plan to leave them to go to seed and see what comes up next year.

My Elephant ear from last year. It did well last year and then one night last fall it was too cold for it so it froze and died back. I kept it in the house and it grew back during the winter. Then when I moved it outside this spring, it was really windy one day and it wilted and those leaves slowly fell off and now it is coming back thicker!

The other two pots are avocado seeds I started in the house in a clear glass folded in wet paper towel. We will see if they do anything.