How Does My Garden Grow?

As is usual almost every year, the heat and the snails are taking their toll on Grandma's Garden.  We had a nice fairly cool spring during May and June, but about three weeks ago Summer arrived with a vengance, and we've had highs in the 90's almost every day, and no rain.  That first week of hot dry weather happened while the family was enjoying the cool, misty weather of the northern California Redwoods, so poor Grandma's garden was a bit neglected.  Gratefully the tomoatoes and most of the petunias survived, but things are still looking a bit scraggly, so we added a few festive pin wheels for the fourth of July.   I tried planting a few beans, carrots, and beets underneath the two cherry tomato plants, but the snails always seem to find the vegetables even more delicious than the flowers, so they haven't done well at all.  I planted a few more beans a week ago, and a couple of them are starting to poke their noses out now.  Hopefully these ones will surv...

Freshly mown green lawn in May 2023! The backyard Iris are in Bloom! Grandma's garden is planted with tomatoes, petunias, and hopefully some green beans, carrots and beets. Much of the parking strip has been freshly mulched, the tulips are dying back.  the Salvia is blooming, but unfortunately so are the weeds!  

 

 

 

 

  Scarecrow holding the morning harvest Zucchini, green beans, green tomatoes and peppers More green tomatoes, peppers and butternut squashes Front yard Zinnias and petunias Grandma's Garden Last of the roses Birdbath with newly planted daffodils, tulips, and Calendendria?    I later added some Iris next to the fence Green Beans and Zinnia Basil patch Memorial Day Mums planted by the tomatoes