Growing Growing Gone!

Things are growing well. Hopefully by the end of this week I will be able to get some pictures up. The peas are producing well considering they were bombarded with strange wacky weather early on. The garbanzoes came up this third time I planted them. I must have planted them too early the first couple times. The second time I planted them only a couple came up.

The sunflowers are getting bigger. They won't get too tall as they are the smaller 2 to 3 foot kind. But they will be a welcome addition to our gardens. The watermelon are doing great (any wood to knock on around here?). I transplanted a few more and they survived the transplant. The warmer weather is what helped them I am sure. It's almost too hot for some things.

I've had a couple wild daisies pop up. Ok, well a lot of them. There are some more wildflower about to open up too. Not sure what they are but they are pretty and we have them almost every year.

I see little baby zucchinnis and squash on the vines! Yeah! That means soon I will probably be watchful to make sure they are properly pollinated. With the honeybee crisis at hand, we may have to hand pollinate them.

Hand pollination is really easy to do too. But it does take extra time. But it's worth the extra effort to get the great results.

I hope soon that we will be loading up mountains of squash to take with us wherever we go to give away and loads to eat as well. So growing growing gone! Here's to a productive season for everyone.

Katina