Garden Update – Into the Wild

Well, my garden is coming along very well.

It’s grown so much!  These hot days are perfect for growing the kinds of things I’m growing.  My tomatoes, for one, are growing wide and tall and finally fruiting.  Clockwise from upper left:  Silver Fir, Amish Paste, and Pruden’s Purple.

Can’t wait to taste them!

My ground cherries have a number of fruit on them, plus the foliage is quite robust.

The fruit inside the husk is still small, but it will get bigger.  I love ground cherries and am eager to taste these.

And I’m finally getting some lemon cucumbers!  This one is nice and yellow and almost ready to pick.

There’s another lemon cucumber hanging around, but it’s still unripe as far as color goes.   The cucumber patch itself has really grown!  It’s taken over its part of the garden and its tendrils threaten the leaves of my Silver Fir tomato plant.

Earlier this week I discovered some volunteers – I think they are summer squash of some kind, but only time will tell. I’d love it if this were the case!

Finally, the fig tree that is hanging over part of the garden is full of figs. I’m going to claim as many as I can, and I hope the birds don’t eat them all.

More pictures can be seen in my flickr gardening set, too.

I keep telling myself that the 90+ degrees days are good for the plants, even if they aren’t so good for me!