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Re: garden update-long

Good afternoon Mike and All,

I'm enjoying the ocular delights of my garden! I planted everything in 
plots and surrounded them with the large rocks from our yard. So 
everything is very neat...The herb garden is lovely with nasturtiums 
circling dill, basil( purple and green), chives and sage. The borage in 
the center grew so tall they fell over as the flowers were just blooming. 
I never got to use any of it!!

I also have the bright lights swiss chard, but still have yet to pick it. 
It's soon going to be too late, as they are already at least a foot tall!

The tomatoes I started from seed( too early and in my window) were great 
until I set them out to harden. I ended up with only one cherry plant. 
It's really taken off with the heat in the last three weeks. As are the 
carnival peppers- I didn't think they were going to live as they have 
only *just* grown to maturity two weeks ago...and all at once, it seems.

The carrots(danvers) and beets have long leaves and are about half grown. 
Sweet little babies they are!

All of my onions and scallions are in limbo. The corn(silver queen and 
how sweet it is) are pollinating and some have their silk.

Red cabbage is good!

Sweet peas fried in the heat, but my girlies found enough in the early 
summer to decide that they were delicious...

My broccoli would have all gone to flower if my neighbor hadn't taught me 
what to look for. Here I thought they would get as large as the ones from 
the store. HA! This is my first garden too, Mike.

No cauliflower, yet, but the cukes are taking over the bottom 20 feet! 
Thank goodness I got all the watercress out in time. Peppery little 
buggers...Now I'll have to watch the beans and make sure they don't get 
overtaken. Same neighbor suggested a  tomato trellis. 

What else? Oh! Lettuces were good! I had romaine and red leaf as well as 
mesclun. They did really well in between the corn. I had thought the corn 
would grow faster and protect them from the sun, but the lettuce did well 
anyway. Time to plant some more!

And all along the perimeter are the different varieties of marigolds. 
Yellow, pale yellow, orange and reds...I had to smile proudly at what a 
beautiful garden I had raised! 

Munching away in zone 7 ( Westminster,MD)
Michelle
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