Back to the Garden

It is about time I let you know how the garden is doing. It was such a rainy June, not to mention that we were in England for most of it, that the garden is only now really growing now that we are in July.

We do have scarlet runner beans! Well, it is more like bean, but still it is very exciting.
We have spent the past few weekends mulching-- 39 bags and counting-- and weeding. The figs are ripening and the few tomatoes we have are still pretty green. We are about to tent the upper garden as the birds are just as impatient as we and keep pecking at the figs and tomatoes. Rotten birds. We have started a second round of sugar snap peas and our great potato experiment *may* have failed. The plants themselves are super tall- like 5 feet-- only our mounds are about 6 inches... ahem. Not being here in June meant not keeping up the mounding. Next year, we will actually dig a pretty deep trench for the potatoes and not disappear to get married. Still the potato flowers are quite pretty!