  I had a gardening weekend and didn't make much progress on on any knitting. I have been enjoying cucumbers all weekend from my little cucumber patch, harvest a new one almost every day.
I re-mulched the paths between my beds and added a bit of mulch on top of the beds to cover the soaker hoses, and help with moisture retention now that the dryer part of summer is here. I thought it would be nice to show some "before and after" shots to compare how my garden looked in mid June (about 2 weeks after planting) and now. Before shots are on the left and afters are on the right. My tomato (roma), eggplant ("little fingers") and pepper (jalapeno, green wonder) plants have grown a lot. The eggplants have a few that are close to being ready to harvest. The peppers are on their way, but I only have a few on each plant.
The tomato plants are covered in little tomatoes but they are all still green are are probably weeks away from ripening. urlLink urlLink My hers are all doing really well this summer. In the past I have always grown my herbs in containers and they have done well, but this year I grew them in little plots and they are really taking off.
Especially the mint. In this first little plot I have mint (spearmint, peppermint and chocolate mint), thyme (english and common), sage (common), oregano (italian and greek) and chives (common). urlLink urlLink My basil has really been thriving this summer, I actually have 2 basil plots, and a few containers of it. I'm a huge basil fan, I can't get enough. This is my row of sweet basil that has grown into a little hedge.
urlLink urlLink This is my other little herb plot, on the other side of the basil "hedge". In this bed I've grown nasturtiums (variegated), dill (mammoth), parsley (curly leaf), cilantro, and a last minute addition of of some orange mint (a late season nursery deal). urlLink urlLink So not to bore you with to much garden talk, I'll save the rest of the veggies and fruit for another post later this week. 
