Volunteer Squash, Romeo, and Other Odds & Ends

   After several weeks of drizzly and cool-to-mild weather, the heat is upon us.  Today was 30 degrees C and tomorrow is forecast to be the same.  The peppers and tomatillos look perkier with the arrival of hotter, sunnier weather.

 

Pictures from late June and early July

 

Potatoes in the foreground, tomatoes along the fence, poppies in the flower bed.

 

 

South garden - bush beans, snow peas on the left (caged with netting), tomatoes and calendula at the back.

 

Cucumbers.   I wish I'd started these a few weeks earlier indoors or in small pots on the south side of the house.

Summer savoury

 

Garlic Scapes in late June.  As of today, most of the scapes have been picked, dehydrated, and ground into powder.

 

 

'Gold Harvest' peas (late June)

 

 

 

'Favorie de Bretagne' tomato

 

 

Snap pole beans ('Early Riser').  These do, indeed, get going quickly and enthusiastically.

 

 

'Swiss Giant' pansies (before the deer got them!) 

 

Alyssum

 

 

Pictures from mid-July

 

Marigolds

 

 

 'Pacific Beauty' calendula (before the deer got them!)

 

 

 

Poppies

Dry bush beans and Bachelor Buttons

 

 

Dry pole beans ('Dolloff' and 'Good Mother Stallard' ) finally starting to climb. 

 

South garden - sunflowers and calendula that were nommed by the young buck...

 

 

The first 'Pink Blush' lavatera to bloom.

 

 

Volunteer squash in the compost bin.  I believe these will either be 'Galeux D'Eysines' or 'Lower Salmon River' squash.

 

 

The first 'Saffron' summer squash of the season.

 

 'Romeo' tomatoes.  This is my first time growing this variety.  I received the seeds in a trade years ago.  These look more like hearts than the chunky, elongated tomatoes I usually see pictured alongside descriptions of Romeo tomatoes.  

 

 

'Sincerity' dahlias