The Modern Victory Garden

It's been a hectic week at work.   Very productive but I feel like I have been running non-stop for days - which I guess I have been!   So it feels really good to start the weekend off with an early Saturday morning stroll through the garden, sipping coffee as I go.   How about joining me for a brief morning garden walk?     

It's been warm and going to get much hotter, so the early morning cool feels very pleasant.   No specific garden chores to attend to this morning other than to keep moving the water around.   I have some errands to attend to today, and by the time I wrap those up it will likely be too hot to do much of anything serious in the garden.  Maybe plant out the January King cabbage starts.   However, this is weather more suited for a rest in the chair on the deck (which gets afternoon shade).   It looks inviting even in the cool of the morning.                                       

Do you remember those little broccoli, kohlrabi, and cabbage plant starts I set out just two weeks ago (July 11)?   They looked like this when I planted them up.            

Not much to look at then.  Well here are those same plants two weeks later to the day (July 25).                                        

Despite (or maybe because of?) the warm weather, these brassica family plants are all really going strong.   I added a lot of compost to this bed and the big pea patch preceded these plants - so I think this section of the garden is quite fertile as a result.             

The Sunset Runner Beans are flowering.   I think the flowers are quite beautiful.                 

 I have not grown this variety before and I am looking forward to seeing how well it produces.                                   

The runner beans are not the only beans in the garden though.   I have a huge patch of bush green beans (Jade) that are ready to have their first harvest.    Take a look at these lovely beans!       

I am going to wait until Sunday to do the first picking - so I can get to them in the morning before the high heat of afternoon.                    

Well, it's time to get to those errands.  Thanks for keeping me company on my morning garden walk!