Sweet Peas
Young Lettuce
The 90 degree weather sets in as we begin the month. I am busy digging in leaves, sprinkled with fertilizer around the beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and beets. On July third I saw my first infant cucumber and the beans are flowering and doing well. I have harvested about six beets now and have eaten beets with blue cheese as a side salad. I have harvested many pounds of sweet peas and I will need to find a good salad for them. Some of the seeds that I planted last week have already come up.
The July heat returns in mid-month and I harvest more beets, cucumbers, and the first beans of the season. They were the small straight kind and tastey! In mid-month I begin snipping back the tomatoes and cucumbers to encourage fruit setting and plant more seeds for lettuce and spinach for salads later in the season. I also trimmed the lavender bush.
July was a bean month. But of course the prize was the first Tomatoes on July 28th, about two and one half months from when the tomatoes were set in the garden from home. The last week of July was a record breaker for heat, 106 degree a couple of days.
Tomatoes
