My gardens are all doing wonderful. I’m still harvesting beans, tomatillo’s, chamomile and have just started harvesting tomatoes, peppers and squash. I’m still waiting on my eggplants 🙂 I’ve had mixed feelings about July. It was a cool month, perfect weather for outdoor barbecue’s. However, summer crops really needed the heat. Now that it’s been warmer out, you can see the hot weather crops starting to take off. I’m sure we’ll be inundated with peppers, tomatoes, and squash really soon. In the next week I’m going to do a post on treating early blight and powdery mildew organically. My tomato plants started showing early signs of blight a couple weeks ago and my squash started in with powdery mildew. I’ve been treating them organically and they’ve been doing great! It’s really all about prevention and early treatment. I also have a wonderful milk powder recipe I’m going to use next year which I’ll post with my blight article.
It’s been fun for me seeing my garden progress through my posts. Hope you enjoy the pics 🙂
Tomatillo’s. They are so prolific!!
My tomato plants are doing well!
New beans and the brussell sprouts are really growing!
So much chamomile!! If anyone wants any, come on over!!
Your garden looks great! I picked my first ripe tomato this week. Very excited about that!
Hope
Your garden looks wonderful! The tomatoes look like they're going to be big and juicy.
Diana your garden looks like it's going to be a great success! I wonder if you could post something about cooking with tomotillos(spelled?)and how to grow them.. I've seen them in the stores but have no idea what to do with them. It's possible that you've already posted something about growing and cooking with tomotillos but I'm new to your site and could have missed it.
Abraso! lilylu
Thanks so much everyone! I've been having so much fun with my garden this year 🙂 I'm already planning next, lol!!
lilylu – Thanks for visiting again 🙂 I do have a green salsa recipe that I use tons of tomatillo's for. It's a Rick Bayless recipe and sooo yummm!!!! Here's the link..
http://spaininiowa.blogspot.com/2009/07/fresh-tomatillocilantro-salsa.html
Hope you like it!!
Dian, your garden looks so well managed! I love gardening as well. And I love watching them fruiting.
What a beutiful garden!!!
Awesome pics. You've inspired me to make a little garden update of my own. Plus, people keep haranguing me about it.
What are padron peppers? Mild, hot? Love your ripening tomatoes.
And the sexing bugs! I let a parsnip go to seed this year and the seed heads were COVERED in ladybugs, many of them busily getting it on.
Kristy, I'd love to see some pics of your garden!!
Amy – You should definitely post on your garden. I would love it see it!! I'm a gardening nut, lol!! I think it pretty much goes hand in hand with cooking. With a joy to cook it's so much fun doing so with your own veggies and fruits that you've labored for.
Padron peppers, are spanish sweet peppers that are eaten as a tapa throughout Spain. They are fried in Olive Oil and sprinkled with salt, YUMMM!! I'm doing a post on it, Pimientos Asados, Que Rico!!!