The second year carrot has a pretty habit with small pale colored flowers in an umbrel shape. Carrots are biannual. The first year it produces the tuber, for harvesting. The second year, it produces a bush with flowers for seed from the tuber you left in the ground over the winter. I got some.
The pumpkins are really producing for pies and for the grands to pick out for Jack O' lanterns. No watermelons as yet, the cukes about to produce. Onions and garlic fattening, leeks still in the ringing stage. Legumes a complete failure this season. Sunflowers growing quickly. Potatoes fattening and the first corn at 50% germination, the second 100%. Herbs; oregano, sage, spearmint, dill doing fine. A lot of grapes, but too much vine, I didn't have time to trim it this year. Tomatoes and peppers a little slower due to the delayed planting due to a very cold spring. Harvesting the few fruit that set in the greenhouse which delays growth and normal harvest times. Spinach and lettuce done for the season, broccoli already picked and pulled.
Garden on auto mostly with timed dripper system and from my severe foot pain. Getting the drippers installed as you plant and a good spread of mulch helps here. No carrots, beets, limas planted due to late season plus the visit to the NW to visit lost cousins. Nearly zero ornamentals planted due to drought restrictions, front lawn is a lost cause. Too much sand deposition, edge is 3" above the sidewalk, and a buffalo grass with rhizomes that goes for miles. I may not replace it due to finances. I am mowing 3-4 weeks at a stretch instead of weekly. A break in the foot pain allowed to mow what is out there today, but I will pay for it tonight!
Joelene
