by A.J. Coltrane
Previous post here. July 7, 2014 mini update here. July 7, 2013 update here. The 2013 post includes the “zucchini breakage disaster” and a picture of the raspberry plant when it was new.
This time I tried taking pictures at dusk. An overview from last night:
The peas in the front yard are dying from the bottom up. I think it’s too hot:
We left a few little peas on the vines to see if they’d get bigger. Everything else is in the colander. We’d been nibbling off of the plants — the total yield was maybe 50% more than this (it’s more than it looks like):
Considering the late start, I’m fine with that output.
The basil was well overdue for a haircut. I cut out most of the flowers. The bowl contains 1/4 pound of basil leaves:
An attempt at a different camera angle — standing next to the “pretty flower container”, looking towards the zucchini:
The “De Mipa” tomatillo is losing some leaves (note the yellow leaves on the right of the photo), but they’re all on the same position on each node (bottom center). The rest of the plant looks healthy. I’m guessing the plant is sloughing those off on purpose(?)
Cucumbers, Tomatillos, and Tromboncino zucchini. The nearer two trellises are 6′ tall, the rear trellis is 8′. The “De Mipa” is the sprawling tomatillo. The “Mexican Strain” is now growing over the top of the trellis. It’s a good combination from a space-utilization perspective:
Closeup of the Tromboncino trellis:
I’d pruned out a few of the worst looking “loser” leaves earlier in the day. Overall though, they’re still looking pretty healthy and there’s no sign of powdery mildew. The back-right Tromboncino is around 24″ long:
The determinate tomato plants are in full output mode. The Taxis:
The Romas. A different cluster of fruits from last week’s picture, these are on the west side of the plant:
A big, fat Marketmore 76 cucumber that I found while poking around taking pictures. A fun surprise:
National Pickling cucumbers, getting there. 6″ is full size:
(For reference, the “Calypso” are full-sized at 3″ long.)
There are a bunch of Lemon cucumbers around this size. They will will double or triple in size before they’re ready:
I think we’re about to get overwhelmed with veggies.
FlatbreadGarden 
Lovely garden. I’m always impressed by those that can grow things in containers. I can do the really big containers, but smaller ones tend to die on me as I’m not good at watering constantly. Which is too bad as the back steps could use some pretty flowers.
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I’m growing some of the same varieties this year (tromboncino squash, taxi tomatoes, lemon cucumbers) – but I am bit behind where you are. All of these are in beds, though. Like Daphne, I don’t have much success with containers.
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Even with the water reservoir in the containers we’ve needed to water in the morning and at night the last few days — it’s been a relative heatwave in north Seattle and the concrete pad gets *hot*.
Hopefully we’ll get a break soon.
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I love that feeling that we’re just about to get overwhelmed with veggies! I’m not there yet; we’re pretty far north.
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