Mid-June garden check-in

Now that the weather has somewhat stabilized, the garden is greening up. Steve’s roses have never looked better. Veggies and flowers are all sprouting. So are the volunteer borage and morning glories from last year - the gardenia inundated with seedlings of both. I let as many stay as possible, because I love them both so much. But those self-sowing seeds are truly invasive - they would take over the entire garden if I let them.

Montana also planted some red amaranth flowers last year, and that’s REALLY seeded itself this year, right along one side of a corn/cosmos/sunflower bed. These super dark red feathery plants are real stunners.

Random perennial bed is pretty scrappy, but coming along. Especially impressive because it has no irrigation and gets very little water.

Squashes and zucchinis looking good.

Zinnias.

These are the little celosia plants. I really need to get in there and thin these puppies out. Putting it on my list for tomorrow!

These are those self-seeded-from-last-year red amaranth, in the middle of a random flower (I can see lots of cosmos there) section.

The corn end. We were just in Nebraska, and their corn was A LOT taller than this!

Climbing beans for our new veggie trellis. Also not on irrigation, good luck, plants!

Oh yeah - the garden shed is dead. This poor (very cheaply made) shed actually blew over onto its back with some winds we had last fall. And then when we got back from Nebraska one of the doors had just blown completely off, leaving the hinges in tact. So it’s time for the shed to go. We moved all of the equipment and supplies it was holding into the greenhouse (which we only use for storage anyway). This will be un-assembled and burned in the fall.

Montana’s tarragon plant is going crazy!

Look at all those little marigolds along the trellis. And everywhere else also!