In which it's time to wander around the garden to see what's up there

Well, this is a farm blog.  Wanna see what's growing?

We added 6 new blueberry plants this year.  Fruit should be ripening this week!

Why do I plant climbing peas?  These stupid vines ignore the trellis
and sprawl wherever they want.  Next year:  bush peas!

Between the young blueberry bushes, Monica planted naked pumpkins!

The "container garden" is growing!  L-to-R:  basil plants in the earth boxes, heirloom tomatoes on the ladder,
standard tomatoes in the large stock tank behind the plum tree,
cherry tomatoes hanging from the barn roof (see below), and asparagus in the stock tanks against the barn.

Basil plants in the earth boxes.  We don't have fancy plant stands,
but we DO have a lot of lawn furniture.

Tomatoes in a leaky stock tank, trellised up against Fiddle's paddock.  We can't put things too close to
Goatenheim because goats.  But Fiddle doesn't bother them.

Cherry tomatoes in upside-down bins that are just about to fail. 
These plants will get moved on Sunday.

Asparagus in the tanks up against the barn.  These are shaded from hot sun in late summer by Pickles' plum tree,
but in spring they are in full light.  We eat this stuff raw, it's so good.

I'm new to gardening corn, but this stuff looks okay to me.

L-to-R: corn, potatoes, onions-and-leeks

Potato blossoms (Yukon Golds)

Zucchini plant almost completely overrun by potatoes.  This will change in July,
as the potato vines die back and the zuke gains traction.

Foreground:  spaghetti squashes, mid-ground: butternut squashes (always a bit puny by comparison at first)
background:  potatoes, including purple potato blossoms

Beets.  My mom likes the roots, I like the greens.  It works out well for us.

Pole beans and sunflowers.

Close-up of the purple potato flowers.

Usually we run the Scarlet Runner Beans up strings and poles, but this spring we had a bashed-up canopy
lying around.  I strung up a web made from hay strings, planted beans and sunflowers, and hope
it will all grow into a beautiful Bean House by mid-summer.

Right now we are eating eggs, salad greens, cilantro, herbs, asparagus, peas, and the first few strawberries -- plus the last of 2018 butternut squashes! 

Soon we will have beans, early potatoes, and blueberries.

Summer is a good time to live on the Farm.