July is always an exciting month in the garden: we get tomatoes! And cucumbers! And peppers! Basically, we are harvesting daily, and it is a delicious time of year. You’ll be able to see in the video the affect the heat is starting to have on the plants themselves, but they are still putting out new growth and blooms. And we are definitely able to harvest!
Let’s take a walk through the garden, and then we can chat about things more.
Clearly there is something going on with the cucumber vines: the leaves are turning yellow-with-spots, but the vines are putting out beautiful new growth and still producing cucumbers by the gallon. {Quite literally}. Not sure what is going on there, if you have any previous experience, please share. We are most likely going to pick up some cucumber plants at the store, to get them situated and growing for when these peter out.
We are fans of this trellis-and-trim method of growing tomatoes. While we may not have the largest quantity of tomatoes in general {still more than last summer}, the tomatoes we are harvesting are huge. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the season goes. And again: yellowing leaves and slightly weird plants but still growing and producing. My theory is it’s too hot.
Veggies are not the only thing growing in the garden this summer. As you may have noticed, we’ve had a litter of baby bunnies emerge and there’s a mockingbird nest in the green beans.
The bunnies are the cutest things, and I want to scoop them up for snuggles {but I am refraining}.
The mockingbirds were determined to nest in the garden – first attempting to build on some green tomatoes – once they relocated to the beans, we let them stay.
We have been thoroughly enjoying our garden harvests, and now that the first round of tomato canning has occurred, I can finally indulge in a much-anticipated tomato sandwich. Heirloom tomatoes have some of the best flavor, and knowing that we grew it from seed? Extra special flavor.
We have a few late tomato plants started {that’s where the bunnies are}, to see if we can extend the season. We’ve toyed with a late run of green beans, although these vines are still growing like there’s no tomorrow. As hard as it is to believe, we’re already thinking ahead to the Fall/Winter garden, and what will go where.
Wow your garden, and those tomatoes, are massive. I hope all the plants end up okay with the yellowing. It could be a heat thing like you said, hopefully. I don’t really know. At least they’re all still producing well. Wow those mockingbird eggs are such a lovely colour. And I can imagine how tempting it must be to make a fuss of those bunnies. At least you can watch them grow though.
It looks like you’ve already had an incredible harvest with lots more to come I imagine.
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We are so impressed with the tomatoes! Even with the heat, they’ve done so well 😀 And yes, the eggs are beautiful {although I’m not sure the momma bird has been sitting on them}, and the bunnies are THE cutest.
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Love your garden! Everything looks great. I agree about the heat though. I planted my raised bed garden in partial sunshine this year and the plants aren’t yellowing as much. I am getting so many cucumbers too – I don’t know what to do with them all! My green beans aren’t doing as well as I had hoped. Yours look great though and those bunnies are adorable!
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I’m glad the partial sun location is helping yours hang in there through the heat! Ours do get a little very late afternoon sun, but after all the worst of the heat is over so … we are just glad they tough it out as long as they do. Yay for cucumbers! 😀
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Baby bunnies!!! I want to scoop those up and snuggle them too!! I would 1000% want to make friends. Lol.
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They let me get really close to them – like mere inches. I did actually touch one, that had run towards the cow pasture, trying to usher it back to garden area/safety, but Mr made me wear gloves, LOL! They’re the cutest things 😍
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