We actually had one day with no rain recently, so I ran outside to do some weeding in my vegetable garden and snapped some pics for you all. First we had excessive heat then we had days and days and days of rain. So I’ve had a few casualties! But the garden still manages to look pretty good. Come in for a little garden tour!
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This year I’m growing some interesting things like peanuts!
These are my peanuts! This bed also had my mini pumpkins and zucchini. Too much rain and humidity equals powdery mildew and once you have weak plants they are susceptible to pests. So I had to pull out the zucchini and pumpkin plants but I’ve replanted them.
My lovely bed of zinnias! Actually they are all over the garden and the bees, butterflies and goldfinches just love them.
I’m growing popcorn this year! I always try to grow a little square of corn. More for the corn stalks which I like to use in decorating for the fall. The corn is good too. But I usually have to battle the squirrels for the corn. I’m sure you can guess who the winner of that battle is!
I’m getting lots and lots of cucumbers! They seem to love the rain. If I don’t get out to pick them every day they get big like this! We’re not big pickle eaters so I’m not sure what to do with all these cucumbers. We’ve been putting them in our morning smoothies.
This is a lemon cucumber.
It’s growing up the arbor that I have in between two raised beds.
I have some eggplant ready to pick.
Hopefully this wild looking bed is full of sweet potatoes! We eat sweet potatoes at least once a week so I’m hoping for a good harvest!
I have lots more growing but I’ll save those photos for another day so this post won’t be too long.
Thanks for stopping by for my veggie garden tour!
Beautiful garden! You’re eggplants are huge. And the vining of your sweet potatoes is so eye appealing…I’ll be anxious to see how your veggie harvest is.
Oh, my goodness! What a beautiful garden you have! I love the garden structures you’ve built, too!
Your garden looks so pretty and you are growing some really fun things! We have hadd so much rain and heat this year, I would have thought the garden would be really lush, but it hasn’t done as well this year. Things are growing but kind of sparse and spindly. Of course we seem to run a good 3-4 weeks behind you in gardening so maybe things will fill out a but in the next few weeks. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden:)
Love seeing your garden. THe deer won’t keep out of mine so I don’t think I will get anything this year.
It’s looking great, Manuela, and your veggies look so healthy. It looks like you’ve got a good crop of everything you’ve planted.
Beautiful tour of your garden! I think vegetables are SO pretty! Have a blessed day dear Manuela, HUGS!
Beautiful garden! So hot on the West Coast of Canada, this rainforest could sure use some rain..
Make some nice cool tzatziki with your cukes..chop ’em up to dice, and mix with yoghurt or sour cream, a bit of olive oil and vinegar, a chopped garlic clove and a pinch of salt…use it as a cool summer dip with raw veggies or cut up chunks of pita bread..gorgeous!
Yum! Thank you for the idea. I have some plain greek yoghurt I’ll try it with.
Wonderful garden. All natural and no insects I guess!
Looks like alot of hard work and love at the same time has gone into that Garden. Simply beautiful pictures.
It’s so very beautiful Manuela!
a beautiful garden! hope you’re enjoying the summer and the fruits of your garden!
Your garden is beautiful and is obviously doing well!
Loving the points of interest you have here and there. The arbor, the gate going into the garden, the little shed. It would be lovely to work in a spot like that. I love zinnias and their happy faces. Cannot wait to see what you do with the peanuts!
We grew the lemon cucumbers two years ago – we liked them, do you?
Your garden is looking really good, Manuela.
Enjoy!
Your garden is looking wonderful. I am so envious. My little container garden has gotten so much water that it looks so sad.
I love gardening! Your garden is beautiful.
Cucumber salads are wonderful and I love the flavor of ice water with a slice of cucumber in it. 🙂 Everything looks like it’s growing well where you are. Thanks for the tour!
hello manuela,
what a lovely garden you have. i love it. the cucumbers looking great, i like cucumber salad and pickles.
my zucchini doing not well this year,but my eggplant doing well. i love your little white house.
thanks for sharing!!!
have a wonderful day,
regina
I like cucumber salad too. But I’m the only one!
absolutely beautiful — I love the little shed with that brilliant blue wreath on it. I’m in north Georgia myself and all the rain is exhausting.
grass cutting every three days gets old.
have a beautiful Thursday.
Isn’t that the truth! My grass is a lovely green but the constant cutting…..
Thanks for stopping by!
I have a problem with mice eating on my sweet potatoes, so this year I planted a couple sweet potatoes
in 5 gallon buckets and some in the garden. If the buckets work i will use all buckets next year.
Have a great day!!
Hi Sue,
I’ve grown regular potatoes in containers and had mixed results. I have a small container of blue potatoes that I’m growing this year. I think the containers get too hot here so I tried putting it in partial shade. So will see how that works out.
Hi Manuela,
Your garden looks very healthy and wealthy with beautiful, fresh produce and gorgeous flowers; love those zinnias, so bright and colourful! Thanks for sharing and the lovely tour!
Poppy
Looks great!
We have more cucumbers than we can use too. I’m not making pickles this year and we’ve eaten them marinated in vinegar so many times, that its getting old! The vines are kind of dying back now though.