July 8, 2026
On June 26, I took a lot of pictures of the vegetable garden as looked it over.
The bee bums’ pictures are back!
Tomatoes look great.
I love the squash blossoms.
The watermelon is getting bigger.
The okra flowers are beautiful. Maybe next year, I’ll plant some in front.
The asparagus is growing well.
The radishes growing at the edge of the bed have bloomed and some have gone to seed. They are also full of harlequin bugs. They made a great trap crop, I was able to drop the harlequin bugs in soapy water.
With the peas gone, I’ve planted this bed with cucumbers and pole beans today. They are planted underneath the trellis. I’ll need to figure out what to plant on either side of the trellis.
The alpine strawberries are beautiful mounding plants.
We haven’t put the cart of dirt back into the potato bed yet. I am not sure what I am going to grow. Maybe more dried beans?
The dried bean varieties have started dying back, with the bean pods drying out.
The soybeans are ready to be harvested.
The caper berry bush had another bloom.
When I went inside, I took a picture of the rubber boots, or gum boots as Bruce calls them. We bought two pairs yesterday at Walmart. I labeled mine so we could tell them apart.
The pair of rubber boots takes me back to my childhood. If I wasn’t running around barefoot, I had rubber boots on. The boots were all lined up in the utility room. Dad had shorter green ones, and the rest of us had black ones.
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