June has been alternately hot and wet and the garden is starting to fill out a bit. The big surprise of the summer has been a bed of poppies that had grown up around the asparagus. The bees are loving this.
Most of the tomatoes are doing really well. Below, the first of the stupice have set fruit. I'm still eating dehydrated tomatoes for last year and these are super tasty.
The black tomatoes we planted are also doing well. Both of these types were in high raised beds. Other types, in lower raised beds, are still doing well but are a week or two behind.
The melons and squash are starting to come. I think there is a nitrogen shortage in two beds due to the wood chips in the manure I put in so I am culling a bunch of feral arugula and dumping it in to the beds for a bit of a shot. That seems to be working.
It looks like the plants are indeed climbing the trellis although I spend a fair bit of time helping them wind their way upwards.
The cherry tree seems to have produced real cherries! I look forward to the the taste of a $20 cherry.
As the cilantro is starting to bolt, I have been cutting it and freezing it for winter use in salad dressings. Some I am letting go to seed to save. A second planting is just now coming ready for use.
The Saskatoons are also ripe, a couple of weeks ahead of usual.
I'm just freezing these and will add to the raspberry jam when I get around to that in the fall.
I expect the first raspberries will be ready in the next two weeks. The second sowing of peas should also be producing by then.
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