Before And After

Pepper bed, before and after pulling 10,000 morning glory seedlings out. Photos in the wrong order, but it doesn't seem like the hassle of trying to figure out why or how to fix it. ;)

Onion

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Cucumbers

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More Berries

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Clematis

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Lawn

My poor brown lawn. Yes, we are officially in a drought, despite the fact that the sky has spit at us twice this weekend...
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Dinner

OK, this is not actually from my garden, but it was cleaned there, and served with produce from the garden and from the farmers market.

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Weeds

Morning glory seedlings attempting to take over the pepper bed. Unfortunately, there are seeds planted to the right where there are no plants, which makes it a bit more difficult to weed.

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Pick-Me-Up

I have been having a really lousy time lately, and I ended up venting far more than I intended to on the phone with my mother the other night. When I went to leave for work a few hours later, I found this and a card stuck to my door. Gotta love moms who love you.

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This is my pepper bed, which was completely weed-free less than 48 hours ago. I know that because I pulled every single weed by hand in the >100F weather we've been having. It's been drought-y for a few weeks now, so I haven't had as many weed issues as usual since I only water actual plants (mostly via soaker hose) and not entire beds (like with a sprinkler). Well, last night it finally rained, and this is what the weed situation looks like less than 12 hours later in my only un-mulched bed. Thousands of them, mostly baby morning glories. Guess I know what I'm doing during daylight tomorrow.

At least it rained, though, and I was finally able to give my soaker hoses a bit of a break.

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Dessert #2

Leftover black raspberries + Georgia peaches from the "farmer's market" in Harrington yesterday. I have difficulty calling it a farmer's market with a straight face, since there were only three tiny tables and half the produce was non-local (Georgia peaches and Florida tomatoes, among other things), but on the theory that if supported it will flourish, I went ahead and bought something local from each table plus one basket of peaches. I hope to see more local stuff and less trucked in stuff as the season progresses. And the peaches WERE good, it's just that I could've bought those in any ol' supermarket.

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Dessert

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Compost

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Ridiculous

The heat index was forecast for >105F when the temperature was supposed to be 96F. Not sure what it turned out to be.

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Cooperative Bugs

I love when the bugs munch on the weeds and leave the good plants alone - the holey leaves here are morning glories, and the ones that are left untouched are black raspberries. :)

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Wilted

It's so hot (nearly 100 degrees today, forecast heat index for tomorrow was 110, last I heard) and dry out, I'm going to have to give my ornamentals a sip, which is pretty rare. Usually, I give them water regularly for a week or two when I transplant them, then leave them to sink or swim on their own - it's a Darwinian yard out there, outside the vegetable garden! When even my violets, which have been there for 6 or 7 years, are wilting, it's time to relent and be a little more generous with the water.

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Not As Lovely

...once they're past their prime. More red hot poker photos here. I'll get out there and cut the stalks back one of these days, the foliage is still lovely for the rest of the summer.

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Lily

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Reading Material

Possibly my favorite magazine. And I've been wanting to dip my toe into solar power (aside from the lights out in the lawn) for a while now.

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Breakfast

Blurry photo, but you get the idea.

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