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| Fresh, firm eggplant, ready for summer recipes |
Hot and humid June — and July, and August, and even September. Most vegetable plants are reaching the end of their tolerance for heat and humidity, and are fading away. Some will hang on a while longer like eggplant and peppers and cherry tomatoes. Some will even thrive, like okra, sweet potatoes and field peas.
Many of our gardeners are beginning to pull their spent plants to make way for summer cover crops. Seeds sown today include several varieties of cow (field) peas, lima beans, and buckwheat. This is the first time we have planted lima beans, usually sticking to the more tried and true varieties called butter beans in our area. It will be interesting to see how the larger, fatter limas grow.
Summer tasks are mostly weeding and mulching and modest pruning to keep weeds from dropping seeds, and plants in check. We’re already thinking what plants to select for our fall crops, and what to propagate for the annual plant sale and open house next May. Stay tuned.
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| Bitter melon that reseeded from last year’s crop. Such an interesting plant. |
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| Glenn is the master of interesting and functional plant supports. Concrete reinforcing wire is supported here on a galvanized pipe frame. Eggplant and peppers Are planted below and grow up through the wire squares to provide needed support for heavy fruit. |
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| Keeping weeds and plants in check is the main summer task. |
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| Carole, Mary and Marie weed around the Larry Lesko memorial tree — a Carolina Silverbell. |
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| Nancy and the Eggplants. A group with a gardening playlist. |
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| Turmeric growing among more weeds waiting their turn to be pulled by our willing gardeners. |
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