July Wrap-Up

Beginning in the second week of July we saw the following plants blooming: chickory, queen anne's lace, echinacea, bee balm, sweet william, and sunflowers. Lilies are in full bloom; pink spirea began fading. Tomatoes, potatoes, and onion are still blooming; We harvested large amounts of lettuce along with chard, kale, beets and carrot. In the third week of July, we planted lettuce, beets, and chard for a fall crop; The first self-seeded morning glories appeared the morning of July 20. Our next endeavor on this blog will be to post more pictures. They tell the story better than anything that we can say.

Some like it hot

In anticipation of the heat wave, I picked as much lettuce as possible on Monday morning and gave it to family members and neighbors. We still have quite a bit of lettuce left if it doesn't bolt in the heat. I fertilized the tomatoes, peppers and brassicas with COF a couple evenings ago. This weekend, I will replant available squares with lettuce, carrots, and beets for the fall.

We heard the first cicada on the morning of July 5;