Garden in the second half of July

 The world is growing like mad.  

Front yard tomatoes are ripening nicely!

The orange ones are Azoychka.

By July 25, we are harvesting Cherokee Purple, Azoychka, and San Marzano tomatoes.  The green ones were not planned - either the branch broke or they dropped by mistake.  They will have to ripen indoors.

Is this the look of summer?   - barbeque chicken, tomatoes with oil and garlic, macaroni salad, cottage cheese,  It doesn't get much better than this!

Unless it's this.  A month early, on July 21, 2020.

The first fresh tomato pasta of the summer.

Chop tomatoes and add garlic, parsley, basil, and olive oil, and let it sit at room temperature.

Cook "Linguini Fini", a thin linguini, and toss with butter.  

Top with the tomatoes and add a good cheddar and good olives (These are Turkish, oil-cured.)

This daylily is new to us this year.  

Another daylily new this year.  The plant itself is tiny, but the flower is normal size!

A bumblebee enjoys the hosta flower.

We are seeing more bees and more variety of bees this year.

The butterflies particularly enjoy the zinnias:

The aconite (wolfsbane) is finally blooming on July 21.  The pink flowers are zinnias and the orange are calendula (self seeded from in front of the house!)  Notice how the plants are dwarfing the birdbath.

Can you see how tiny the daylily plant is.  I don't think it is 8 inches tall!   It's new this year and is striving to take its place in the world.

The delphinium is a powerful purple!

The structure on the right, with the Tibetan prayer flags, is a frame for dahlias.  Notice that some of the pink zinnias have gone through the second frame of wire.  Come back later to see the August pictures to see how high they really go!

The tall plant, above, left, looking a bit like Cousin Itt, is brugmansia.

The zinnia garden is filling in nicely.  This is the backyard, and this garden extends from near the green shed toward the back door.  The screen house was essential last year because there were so many biting bugs.  This year, so far, we have used it only once.  There are lots of beneficial bugs, like butterflies and bees, but, so far, no biting ones!

To see other garden pics:

This page: 2nd half of July.

First half of July garden.

Garden at the End of June

And the first half of June is here.

You can see the end of May, 2020, here.

Here is the first week of May

Daffodils 2020

The middle of April is here.

First week of April.