Another evening visit

A quick visit, another sunset, more mosquito bites.  Harvested some radishes and some garlic, one squash, a few tomatoes.  Pictures:

The Sky Show

A couple of visits this week...and both of them presented quite the show in the sky as the sun set.  This is one of the huge benefits of having our garden in this setting.  We have seen many beautiful sunsets while giving blood to the mosquitoes.  It is all worth it.  We get to spend some evening time working in the garden with the evening bird chorus all around us, and we get the chance to see the sunset show.  Always free, usually well worth a few bites.

Everything continues to grow and produce.  We got a few more squashes, our first daikon, some tomatoes.  The squash plants are getting a little scary, they have grown so large and so healthy.  The tomatoes the same.  It is looking like we will have some very nice onions this year, and the garlic is getting close  to harvest time.  Peppers are forming, pole beans are climbing, chard is being enjoyed by the slugs.  A wonderfully wild and woolly garden experience this year that amazes us each time we visit.  And oh, the sky...

First Daikon

A view of the garden from the other end

Memorial bench for a former gardener

Another quick one...after the rain (Thursday evening)

As Wallace Shawn's character Vizzini says numerous times in The Princess Bride - "Inconceivable!"

The squash plants, from all angles...

It seems like we have never grown squash plants as huge as the ones we are now dealing with.  And the tomato plants are at least rivaling them.  We are getting plenty of squashes (13 pounds picked last night) and the tomatoes are beginning to ripen.  The onions are going great guns.  The pepper plants are twice the size they were on Sunday.  Unfortunately, the chard continues to be eaten by the slugs.  The garden is starting to look like a jungle and is in desperate need of weeding.  Sometime this weekend we hope to get to it.

Another lovely sunset, too.

Thirteen pounds

Peppers, taking off.

Oregano and pole beans

Cosmos

The real reason we keep our plot in the community garden.

A quick one...

Stopped by the garden for a quick look at things this evening on our return from kayaking in Rhode Island over the weekend.  Good progress on all fronts and no real problems.  Harvested 7 squashes, all very nearly perfect.  Hoping the rain that is predicted in the next few days does materialize, since I did not get to water.

Monster squash plants

Pole beans making progress

Onions starting to swell

Our nearly perfect squashes

We live in a beautiful place

A quick visit to the garden to pick off the squash bugs, cucumber beetles and their assorted eggs from the squash plants, which have been pretty much exploding.  It seems like the squash plants are doubling in size each time we visit.  With the rain and warm sunny days we have been getting, the conditions seem to be perfect for explosive growth.  The tomatoes are also going wild.  Everything looks robust and healthy, including the weeds and the slugs.  The slugs are enjoying our chard, unfortunately.  We are enjoying the chard that they don't get to.  We also harvested our first squashes tonight.

And tonight featured one of those spectacular sunsets that we love watching on our "Estate", with a near full moon rising in the east.  Like we always say (especially when we visit the garden):  We live in a beautiful place.

Actually taken on July 7

Cosmos

Again

Globe Thistle

Slugs ate my Chard!

Picking Squash Bugs

Our first Squash of the season

 

Watering at sunset

Moon over Portland on our way home