July 12

The heat has kicked in. Most of the garden is doing well.

The peas need to be picked within the next day or two. This will be an ongoing chore for the next few weeks. The beans have small beans on them and will be ready to be picked in a week to ten days. The potatoes are doing great. The grasshoppers are making their way into the garden and it looks as if they are eating the potatoes a bit here and there. The corn looks great. The fourth planting is up.

The melons are a bust and it looks as if the cucumbers are going to die off also. The grasshoppers are going to town on what little growth they have had. The biggest problem was the cool wet month of June. The summer squash may pull through and the winter squash and pumpkins are starting to take off. It is too late in the season to replant.

The peppers love the heat and are starting to grow. The wax peppers have one or two peppers on each plant. The tomatoes are looking good, not many blossoms yet, but it is a challenge to grow tomatoes here at our elevation of 5400. It is either too cool or too hot for the fruit to set.

Again the photos start in the northeast corner and I move counter clockwise.

You can see all of the corn in this photo. The 4th planting is on the right just visible above ground.

Here are the peas, sugar (snow) peas on the right and Marvels on the left.

The beans are as good as any I have grown.

You can see the difference in color between the Pontiac on the left and the lighter green Yukon and Burbank on the right.

These next pictures are taken from the center of the garden. This one is looking to the northeast.

Northwest.

Southwest.

Southeast.

You can see all four plantings of corn. The wind was blowing north when I took the photo.

These last two photos are of the house garden.

The peas at the house garden are all but done. They are behind the broccoli.