June begins... garden tour

 An annotated tour of the garden beds and plantings as of June 4th 2023...

The lunchbox mini-peppers, planted in one of my large blue pots, just transplanted this past weekend.  I have fertilized them and need to do so again for them to thrive.

The peas, which refused to anchor on the wood fence after all and now are sprawling across the other white planter, from which I harvested the last of the baby bok choy a week or so ago.  I've thought of re-seeding with spinach but I think it's too hot now.  Not sure what will go here, need to put something in or reclaim the dirt and put away the planter.

Lots and lots of gladiolas in a pot too small for them.  By the fall I will figure out where to put them for realz and they will (I hope) forgive me for an overly crowded summer.

Sunchokes are coming up great!  I look forward to an abundant crop.

The zinnias are doing well, though something has munched some leaves on a few of them.

Cosmos, Sonata Mix, are budding and generally happy.

My lemon balm is really coming along.  I look forward to fresh lemon balm tisanes this summer, maybe with some of the spearmint added.

The ground cherry has started being much happier now that the weather has warmed up.  Let's see how big it can get in the pot.  I should plant it in dirt next year.

The orange balm gets about 2 hours less light daily than the lemon balm, and you can really see the difference in how it's lagging behind on growth.  I hope it will do well enough to try some in a tisane later in the summer.

Clockwise from bottom left: cube of butter summer squash, calendula, angel baby spaghetti squash, candystick dessert delicata squash x 2, dickinson pumpkin, and corn.  Plus a nasturtium in the middle.

Lettuce leaf and mammolo genovese-type basils in front of tomatoes.  Queen of the Night, Paul Robeson, and Lucky Tiger.  Carrots planted on either side of the tomatoes and between them.  Calendula on the edge.

More calendula, a double row of mostly pencil pod yellow wax beans with a few capitano roma yellow beans (most didn't come up).  Opal and thai basils in front of the tomatoes, which are similarly interplanted with carrots as per the other bed. Dr Wyche's yellow, honeydrop cherry, Speckled Roman which I thought was dying and a San Marzano II (much smaller plant) next to it that I bought to replace it.    

But wait, there's more!  Clockwise from top left, honeynut butternut x 2, kurin kabocha x 3, more calendula, and a costata romanesco zuke, plus two more nasturtiums in the middle.

Peppers (Jimmy Nardello, Escamillo F1 Yellow, Carmen F1 Red, Golden Star yellow bell) and eggplants (Listada de Gandia, Rosa Bianca, Bride, Long Purple)!  Between them, sugar snap peas and two kinds of cucumbers, Burpless and Dragon's Egg.  Center front, a pair of French marigolds.  Tucked in at the back corners, two Early Girl icebox watermelons, one on each side.  Yeah, that's a busy bed, I will be fertilizing regularly.

On either side in the back, lettuces that I got as a six-pack and transplanted.  They need to come out soon before they bolt.  Plus more sugar snap peas and the two types of cukes.  In the foreground, four kinds of beets! Merlin, Robin, Boldor golden, and Chiogga.  Tucked in near the back, to hopefully vine up the trellis, two kinds of melon: Hara Madhu and Madhu Ras.

The herbs are doing great! Front to back, alternating left to right: borage, chocolate mint, stevia, spearmint, chives, parsley, sage, summer savory, and then I forget, but including rosemary, thyme, oregano, and marjoram.  You can tell what I got from starts vs raised from seeds!

Last but not least, the humble potato, in grow bags.  Need to roll up the sides of the two middle ones, started later in the season, and hill them up.  To-do this week sometime!