Kevin's taking over the garden chores

while I go on a two-month roadtrip with Sadie. He's really gotten passionate about growing edibles. We are going to have potatoes, beets, carrots, peppers and tomatoes out of our ears this August!

The honeysuckle is no longer in bloom and neither is the bottlebrush. But the blue palo verde is finally growing a few yellow blooms and some leaves. FINALLY! After four years in the soil the little stump of a tree is finally showing a will to grow up.

Green peppers

Seeds that I planted early last month in the front containers are now sprouting. At this rate we are going to get swamped with peppers of all varieties.

The heat is wilting the plants, though. We are having dry heat in the upper 90s.

Kevin, though, has really gotten into his vegetable garden. What a change over last year.

Strawberries!

I picked a handful of strawberries tonight.

More Yukon potatoes are coming up.

Kevin planted more tomatoes and peppers today. I have now let him do all the planting since I'm not going to be around this summer to harvest anything.

The Heliopsis in the front yard are now breaking out in yellow bloom. They are such prolific re-seeders. Some of the flowers have sprouted in areas I didn't think they would do well in. The Cleveland sage is also doing well.

I planted an agave on Sunday in the front yard, replacing the yellow broom that had died. This agave had five outsets growing from the main root ball which I also planted in another pot. I may soon have too many agave growing in the yard!

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I planted eight potato seeds yesterday, four peppers today and it looks like a bunch of beets, carrots and corn are coming up. It's going to heat up starting Sunday, with nightime lows approaching 60F.


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