Patchwork Patio: Wait for it...

Happy first day of summer! Here's how my garden is doing, now that summer is here. ...Okay, to be fair, I took these pictures on Thursday, so technically it was still spring. But close enough.

My herbs. I think these might be my favorite thing this year. I'm enjoying adding a little more each year, and now that they are potted, I can move them wherever I want, which is nice. Plus it frees up the flower bed. Not sure what I plan to do with said flower bed yet... I'm thinking about adding a couple of squash seeds to see if I can get a bumper crop. I thought about greens, but that's really the hottest place in my yard, so I don't think that's the thing to do.

The spearmint that blocks out the sun.

Summer squash, green beans, chard, and broccoli.

The broccoli on this plant started floofing out, so I cut it. It was only about 2 or 3" across, but it was going to bloom. It tasted great! Now here's hoping we get some of those side shoots I hear about so often.

Getting awfully darn tall!

Pretty. Finally starting to fill out a little.

The strawberry sage bed. I actually pruned the sage back around the berry plants, and I pruned the berry plants as well, since they had quite a bit of dead foliage and stems from the rough transplant. So they look better now. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the pretty pictures, so you get the before version. Hey, the pictures are free, no complaining allowed!

Spaghetti squash seems to be bouncing back! It's got some new growth, and I pruned off the worst of the leaves so that it could focus its energy on the healthy part of the plant. I hope it produces!

Looking forward to some color here pretty soon.

Slugs have been in my garden lately. I need to do something about that.

So, interesting thing about the peas. They stopped producing, which is more or less normal. But oddly enough, they are staying green. Then I went out on Thursday and discovered new buds on the vines. Are they going to produce a surprise second crop? Only time will tell.

Okay, they're staying green except for these ones. And the peas on this vine didn't grow right. They are all stunted, and then they got fat really fast, so I think it's sort of like the pea's death throes, trying to chuck out some offspring before it dies.

The kale has slowed down quite a bit. I think I need to plant some new kale and chard. Trying to decide how I plan to do that, since I'm running out of space. It would make the most sense to start them indoors, but I need containers and soil. I have a bunch of empty water bottles, I'm thinking of using those. And I think I might have some soil left over, but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, ramble ramble, blah blah blah.

The stalled broccoli started growing again last week. We had a few days of cool, rainy weather. I'm not really sure what to expect from these now. But the heads are growing, surprisingly enough. We'll see what happens.