Scrambled egg slime mold

Kinda cool but kinda gross. The mold is not harmful but I removed as much as I could anyway.

And here's some pretty flowers to off-set the mold:

Hostas, annual lobelia, morning glory and moon flower.

Strawberries!

Just because I mentioned it in the previous post. Here you go. Lovely juicy strawberries. Okay, they taste better than they look.

And now, I have blogger overload. Audrey out.

My what big leaves you have

Yup, the vegetable garden has grown:

Hostas are blooming and even though you can't really see it, the morning glory and moon flower are  growing up the fishing lines. I've had to untangle the vines a couple of times but they are on their way up up up.

A view of the vegetable garden from the left side of the house. I don't think I've captured it from this angle before.

Morning glory growing up one of the branches I stole *ahem* repurposed from the  trail around the neighborhood.  The white stuff is de (diatomaceous earth) for the slugs. I really can't stand slugs. Ugh!

Besides the morning glory in front, there are 3 other plants that are doing okay, though not as well. They got de too, for the battle against the slugs.

Right most garden bed. Borage at the front, starting to flower.

Still right most bed, crazy beans and cucumbers. Sweet peas not doing too hot though.

Leeks! I need to add more soil to blanch the shaft... okay, that sounded wrong. But it's necessary to get the white part longer than the green part. Okay, that still sounded wrong. I give up.

Cucumber flower.

Bean flower.

Look at those beans. Kinda creepy but also sad at how the tendrils are reaching out, trying to catch onto something that's not there.

  

Middle garden bed. All you can see is Mr Stripey, the tomato plant but there's the bell pepper on the left of the Mr Stripey and carrots under the tomato leaves.

Borage flowers. They're purple but I took this on a bright Saturday afternoon that it looks almost white.

  

Beauty through adversity. Nah, not really. Just alyssum poking through a dying borage leaf, just a little morbid.

There's the bell pepper plant. Remember how I was worried the pepper plants being stunted.

Tomatoes. I counted 21! These are actually on Early Girl in the left garden bed.

Remember the cabbage worms (which is actually a caterpillar)  that seemed to be winning against my kale? Look! 

My biggest patch of alyssum, that's starting to overflow over the edges of the bed.

Onions. Can you see the bulbs?

While the bell pepper plant is growing, the jalapeno isn't doing so great.

Left most garden bed. Tomato plants winning again. I've had to trim them back a bunch.  Even the tomato plant that I mutilated two-thirds of in May is turning into a monster plant.

Sweet potatoes. And potato behind them.

Raspberry plants still producing.

Lavender, just in.

Tarragon.

Strawberries. (See next post for pictures of strawberries.)

Sunflowers. There's a zombie on our lawn, there's a zombie on our lawn, we don't want zombies...  um,  sorry, got carried away.

Thyme. 'Nuff said.

Ryan's, I mean, my crocs with the pineapple sage.

  

Daylilies. See the stalks poking through? Flowers on the way!

Last but not least, iris. So pretty. *melt*

So, what's the prevalence of human-eating tomato plants?

New things, er, plants... and things

Everyone, please welcome the new additions to Audrey's garden.

Solomon's seals:

You can see the difference between where I watered and where I didn't. It's been hot and dry and getting more so. It was a lot more difficult to dig then back when I planted in the spring. So, praying really hard that they do okay along with the other plants that I ordered from Bluestone Perennial that still need to go into the ground. Also, pray for more rain and cool weather.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, my two-system-compost bin!

Made from wooden pallets that my friend, Matt Black, very kindly dropped off at the top of our driveway. The pallets are attached by wood screws. Assembling the bins was the easy part but transferring the compost was tedious. But two things made it better: It was pretty cool that I couldn't see the veggie scraps that I threw in a while ago. That and seeing the pile in the dog pen grow smaller and smaller until...

all gone! Well, almost all gone, but good enough.