Summer Garden Gathering : 5

Our first tomato was ripe enough to harvest! This was a tomato plant that came up on its own from seeds left in the bed last year.

The milkweed pots were still bursting. The feathery seeds looked like white fire flames. The sweet potato vine is thriving in its home underneath the shade. I love the contrast of the bright green leaves with the dark green of the grass.

The dried beans that we planted last Wednesday were coming up in the small pots and in the bed with the corn! You can see the seeds hanging onto the sprout and the roots reaching out of the bottom of the pot. The zinnia seeds and lettuce leaf basil that we planted in small pots last week had also sprouted. The pumpkin seed still showed no signs of germination.

The purple flower belongs to the same beans that we planted and had sprouted above. Who could have imagined such beauty from a bean flower? I picked some flowers for a small arrangement in a plastic cup left over from germinating the squash seeds. The lettuce was withstanding the lack of rain, and a new tomato plant was blooming and bearing fruit.

There were so many things to see on July 1st including corn that continued to grow, a red pepper, a tiny spider and its web on the dill plant, and three more squash plants that a mystery person or persons planted since last week! Two families enjoyed watering and noticing all of the changes in the garden. Plus, we looked forward to eating a tomato and some beans fresh from the Casey garden with our suppers! See you next week.

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