Temps are better 80F daytime, 60 at night.
Beans and mustard in west gardens. Nasturium, mesclun, chamomile, marygold, and alyssum sprouts.
Colorado wild spinach doing well in patio garden. Beans are sprouting.
Picked wild strawberries twice from driveway garden. If I wanted a good crop I would need to thin them out but I am using them as a ground cover. They are starting to spread over the sedums. Interesting. Missed the flowers on the raspberries.
Wild strawberries and peas.
Cooled down today. Basically in 70s, cloudy with mostly mist and drizzles. Not enough rain to measure in the rain bucket so will have to keep an eye on garden and water dry areas. Still getting radishes.
Flowering magnolia peas, tomatillos. The bottom leaves of tomatillo are yellowing so I'm picking them off and throwing them in the lawn. Yes, that is the way I compost and fertilize our lawn. Sometimes I throw the weeds under bushes if there are too many of them. A weed here and there basically dries up and disappears. I don't believe in adding chemicals to a lawn because I think it is a waste of money in addition to making me anywhere from somewhat ill to super sick where I can't breath and/or get out of bed. I also don't believe in watering an established lawn. Some grasses are supposed to go dormant when it get hot. I am trying to encourage the herbs and short flowers to colonize in our lawn so it smells nice when we cut it. The clover is doing well and flowering in the lawn.
Planted some more mustard and arugula seeds in our house to plant out in garden after they sprout. Maybe one of these arugula variations won't mind the summer's heat. I have been cutting down some of the cilantro as it goes to seed and shades out plants to use as mulch. It smells really nice. A regular pair of scissors works great in the garden to cut down grass or weeds and harvest greens.
Mint is finally recovering after I redid the potting mixture in the garden bench. It smells very nice.
Picked some chives for supper. Picked some more peas and wasabi radishes. Also picked 2 red radishes out of front circle garden but didn't photo. Picked some oregano and dill to dry for winter. Started dehydrator about 8pm. Somewhat humid so will take longer to dry. Picked a seed pod that might be either arugula or red mustard. Rest of the seed pods are still green. A lot of arugula is still flowering in cold frame.
4 pinwheels put in garden for rabbits. Hardening off nasturium under volunteer squash. Celery ends flowering in patio garden. Still in 90s. Strong south wind. Weather channel says it 23mph but branches are really bending.
Beans and mustard in west gardens.
Still hot, sunny and in the 90's. Only down to 70s at night.
Peas, mustard, cabbage, volunteer squash, volunteer tomatoes, flowering sedum, green strawberries, flowering dwarf orange hat tomato.
Basil, thyme, and sweet majoram sprouting in house. Picked radishes, avalanche beet, and greens.
Very hot in the high 90s. Only got down to 80F last night. About 1" of rain this morning. Next couple of days will be very hot.
Nasturium, chamomile, alyssum, and marigolds have sprouted indoors.
