Garden peas, and an extra wth?

I have flower gardens and mine have taken a beating in the last two weeks with heat, high wind and hail. *sigh*

I need to do some weeding but with temps at 100 degrees, I am afraid that won't be happening.

I have more green tomatoes starting than all of last year.
My herbs aren't doing well. I skipped cucumbers this year

My cherry tomatoes are blooming and my succulent garden is prospering! I've been pruning and shaping a little and taking the opportunity to propagate some of my succulents and they are loving it.

I bought some burros tail and I'm hoping to have a lush hanging basket in a few years.

Ours is rebounding after DH managed to spray weed killer on the whole garden. Killed every seedling we had, including the super beefsteak tomato plant he ordered online. Our peach tree will not be producing any edible fruit this year.

We had to pull everything out and re-plant it all. Good thing they were all small but it delayed any crop we would get by two weeks or more. The new seedlings are doing well. While looking for new seedlings to plant at the greenhouse, we came across a melon one. That's new for us so we're trying that.

Along with the melon, we have zucchini, butternut squash, bush green beans, cucumber, lemon cucumber, carrots, corn (if the damn squirrels don't eat them all), 4 different kinds of peppers, cherry tomato and a regular tomato.

I was out checking on it yesterday and saw the first jalapeno pepper growing.

Oh and our hops are sprouting!

My garden is doing great!

I started everything that I've planted so far from seed, so I'm really enjoying watching everything grow. I still have a lot of plants to get in the beds, but my leg is giving me a fit and I'm having to do things in short spurts.

This year I am making worm tea from the leachate from my worm bin and the plants are LOVING it. I swear they grow a foot after every feeding. My tomatoes are already big enough to see even with my glasses off.

I'm also growing a fine crop of frogs and lizards, it seems.

Marcy

Not nearly as good as usual. I have 4 corn plants doing phenomenal - the other 18 are half the size or less. Japs, banana, and chili peppers are growing out of control - but bell peppers are barely producing. 

I usually have more tomatoes than I can handle so I only planted 3 this year instead of 6. One is growing fine, but never got one flower and has not tomato growth whatsoever. The other two are barely 24-28" tall and not nearly as dark green or leafy as I'm used to and have a handful of small tomatoes on them. Cukes are doing fabulous. The potatoes - oh, the potatoes are fabulous! I'm so excited about them!
I have one cherry tomato plant in a container that has gotten so big and is so heavy with fruit that the branches are breaking despite being propped/staked up.
Some of my Herbs are struggling in this heat, but most are in containers so I've moved them all to the shadiest area I have without being under the porch and they seem to be recovering.

It is reaching 94-98 every day right now - I water every evening after the sun has gotten lower, but they are all still wilted and struggling when I get home the following day. We FINALLY got some rain yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks and the temps are supposed to drop a few degrees into the weekend. Hoping the strugglers will start perking up soon!

I'm a flowers-only gardener. We had a very mild winter, a long cool wet spring. What's remarkable is that one of my climbing hydrangeas, which is conservatively 8 years old (they are plants that are notoriously slow to establish and flower, but once they do, OMG!) for the very first time, has two blooms! Also, two clematis I planted 2 years ago and did squat last year, have taken off and seem to be doing well. And one of my climbing roses that had very nearly croaked from some leaf rot disease has rebounded and has done really well. So far, it's been a happy spring early summer in my gardens.

Did you ask her how hers were doing? LOL

I have 2 gates to my garden and the farther one faces my neighbor's yard. I don't think he had noticed my garden until I had the fence put up and then he just went crazy over it. Every time I turned around, there he was, opening the gate and letting himself in. It really startled me when I'd be involved in something and he'd suddenly be right behind me.

I came home one day to find his step son standing in the middle of the garden with a handful of one of my scented geraniums. He had this smug look on his face, like he had something over on me. He waved it at me, then nonchalantly strolled out the far gate. I know he thought it was pot since the leaves are a bit similar. Lord, I hope he smoked it!

After that, I bought a hook and eye closure for the far gate and installed it where it's hard to reach from the outside. I can reach it, because I know where it is and I have small enough hands to reach thru, but they couldn't. I also put one on the gate closest to the house after I thought about it a bit.  If the brat was brave enough to wait to see who drove up the hill, he was bold enough to walk around the house and come thru the other gate.

I really was glad when they moved.

Marcy