Tuesday, August 4, 2009

getting lots done in the summer heat..

maize


Tella:
Strummer:
playtime:





sun tea with fresh mint, yum:
homegrown tomatoes:
very local meal:


winter squashes and pumpkins:





winter squash:blue corn tassel:
two of the three sisters:
cushaw:
crazy tall mullein:



watering some newly acquired yarrow from fellow freecycle gardeners:homegrown tomatoes:
our remaining two rows of tomatoes:
muskmelon!:
green chile:


baby pickling cucumber:purple pole beans enjoying the homemade tee-pees:
buckwheat does grow faster than any weed:
tomatillos already taller than the fence with stalks like mammoth sunflowers, great volunteers and i'm pretty sure we're gonna save seed from these awesomely underrated plants for next year:
lettuce flowers and seed, that's just what happens when it is in the nineties:



sunflower season is finally here!


irrigation pump, pumping rainwater right into the drip system:


ol' trusty:
mammoth:

autumn beauties:
birdhouse:


strawberries:
new clothesline:


very nice
new tool shed in the works, all free scrap wood:
project on hold until i can buy a new skil saw blade

driveway hose:
god in the clouds:
tella's bucket :
corn field:
SW:

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