Time for a garden update! This has been an incredibly cold, gray summer, but our veggie garden is doing surprisingly well, if a bit slow. I’ve harvested many zucchini – eleven just on Wednesday! We also got a nice harvest of garlic. I’m growing some new lettuce in that bin now. I am going to make much more effort this year to take advantage of our mild winters and keep things growing throughout the year. I thought I’d take a few pictures of the garden after picking all those zucchini since we were having such a beautiful day! Here’s a shot of the whole garden. Fall Gold raspberries on the left are almost ready!

The tomatoes got a late start and with this weather they are growing very slowly, and the deer keep pruning them, but we might get some tomatoes yet.  The Sungold cherries that I started from seed are finally flowering like crazy, but no tomatoes yet. The Green Zebra and Oregon Spring that I bought as fairly large plants in June have some mid-sized tomatoes on them. Dare I hope for full sized tomatoes ripening in my garden?

There are still a couple of volunteer California poppies in with the veggies – I can’t seem to bring myself to rip them all out.

I love to grow lots of different kinds of pumpkins and winter squash to decorate with in the fall. So now there are lots of little pumpkins coming along! I have a few new varieties this year, and I’m noticing several of them are white. Wasn’t I going to try to grow more orange pumpkins this year?

Lots of yummy winter squash coming along, too!

There were many honeybees out working busily among the flowers. A few even stayed still long enough for me to take their pictures! These are my favorite shots of the day!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!