Mid-July garden update
The update is: The landscape fabric plus Steve’s custom drip solutions are a hit! Everything is growing exactly as expected, very reassuring to our inner gardener confidence!
Many of our beds are pretty eclectic this year, taking a note from Montana that it is totally allowed to mix it up a bit. This bed has morning glories on the left, some beans, peas (to which we added a few tomato cages, because they are runners accidentally planted in the middle of the bed), and some kind of leafy green on the right side, maybe baby bok choy
The roses are all acclimating well. When we get the truckload of mulch later this week, this bed will be covered in it deep to keep all of that drip moisture in (since it is installed on top of the fabric).
This bed looks like lettuces and also some borage (an herb with little blue edible flowers - it will take over). The herb circle in the middle is also doing great, esp. since it is on its own for water (not tied into the irrigation systems.) You can also see where the new greenhouse will go, perfect spot.
More mixed lettuces and also some beets, which are one seed that didn’t germinate very well this year.
Strawberries to the left, zinnias to the right.
A mixed flower bed. I will transplant any perennials from this bed into the old garlic/onion bed in the fall, which is being repurposed as a perennial pollinator plot.
Asparagus has already had its show for the year, but seeing some good baby sprouts poking through. We will also heavily mulch this bed next week to reduce weeding since it does not have any fabric protection.
This was our experimental bed, with a variety of flower seeds we weren’t quite sure about. Plus some of the seeds were washed away with an early irrigation flooding problem.
Honestly not sure what is along the edges here - it looks to me like a combination of beets and borage. In the middle are some beautiful sunflowers. Probably some misc. squash are tucked in here too!
LOTS of squash and more sunflowers. We literally could not have too many squash and zucchini - it is one category of vegetable we all like and use (and lasts a long time!)
The tomatoes are loving Montana’s cattle panel trellis.
Happy little squash blossum and fruit!
Stepping back, it’s all coming together so nicely! The one thing I want to improve on are the arched trellises - I think I will look for some kind of perennial to grow on those permanently (e.g. clematis) vs. waiting for seeds to grow enough to start climbing.
