Back in May my husband got a creative idea to hang twine down from ropes for the asparagus beans to run on.
Now the corn is as tall as the ropes/strings. We figure the corn will grow much taller as time goes on.
The beans are running on the strings (and on the corn stalks as well.) We’re hoping soon that the beans will bloom.
After the recent welcomed rains, We were more easily able to weed the carrots. It took us 2 hours to carefully pull, dig and toss the weeds out of carrot patch. Hopefully the carrots will grow into some tasty colorful veggies.
My husband weeded my gnome garden last week. He moved a the volunteer tomato plants to the garden and planted them in bunches, so they can support each other as they grow. They must be happy because they’re blooming quite lovely. We can hardly wait to see what variety they are.
I made the hard decision to dig up and throw away 2 of my squash plants. It was a sad thing since I planted only two seeds of each variety. The two I pulled up were golden zucchini squash. The vines were big and they even had several new squash on them. To a non-gardener they would’ve looked healthy. I originally thought the yellow leaves were from the cool weather at night we had a while back. But I trimmed those leaves off and as the squash grew so did more yellow leaves. My other varieties of squash are full and luscious and green. I worried that whatever was causing the golden zucchini to have yellow leaves might spread to my other plants. Also, an unhealthy squash is more susceptible to pests and other diseases. I surfed several garden websites and have come to the conclusion that my two golden zucchini plants may have been suffering from a ‘nitrogen deficiency’ or a ‘nutrient deficiency’ or something else. Regardless, I wanted them out of my garden so my other squash wouldn’t catch anything from them. I planted a couple more golden zucchini squash seeds in another spot. Hopefully they’ll live and be healthy.
And so ends another gardening update.
I hope you all are having pleasant weather & good days.
108 inches = 9 feet
I harvested my first green egg squash. It grew at sonic speed after the storm we had the night before. 
The rule at our home is the first squash of the season should be fried, but since a few years ago we avoid greasy foods, so our first squash are stir fried instead of deep fried.
I picked some chard, green onions, onion chives, garlic chives, sweet basil and rosemary to add to the stir-fry along with 
We grew everything in this stir fry, except for the olive oil that we used to stir fry the veggies. I think that’s awesome!
We got carried away with buying herbs and had no choice but to make an herb garden.
I originally planted peppermint and chocolate mint in the herb garden, but after reading up on the mints and how invasive a plant they can be, I transplanted them into pots and keep them on my porch. By-the-way, the chocolate mint smells like a andes mint or a york peppermint patty. I haven’t tasted it yet though. 
You can tell from the photo that my sweet basil and cinnamon basil are growing well. My lemon basil is the pot on the far right, it isn’t growing as fast. I’ve replanted the lemon basil seeds at least 5 times and only a few plants have come up. I believe there is something wrong with the seeds like they’re old or something. However, if the plants I have growing now survive they’ll be just fine for being greenery on my back-porch and maybe for flavoring a food from time-to-time.
Joys Of Creating 