Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Scenes From a Summer Garden

Cathi and some of the
vegetables harvested today.  
Enjoy scenes from Wednesday in the VegHeadz summer garden today.   There are still plenty of plants thriving and producing edibles.  

Pole beans

Squash, cucumbers and melons


Cathy and the squash beds

Peggy, Jeanne and Annie tied  up some of the 
Sunflowers.  Newly planted sweet potato
slips in foreground. 

Emma pruned and tied up
her container tomatoes


Mary picked beans
and planted cowpeas in
the forest garden

Peggy and Linda trimmed 
back the Loofah

Tithonia—Mexican sunflowers

Chamomile 


Thai Ginger—Galangal

Numerous varieties of
shallots and other 
perennial onions

One of our best corn crops in years.
This is Glenn’s heirloom variety—
Aunt Mary’s cultivated by
the Atkinson family since the 
1850s

Mexican Tarragon—a member of the
sunflower family perennial native of Mexico
and Southwest U.S.—substitutes for 
French Tarragon which 
does not grow well here

Lemon Grass in Louie’s
Herb beds


Country Gentleman Sweet Corn 
from the Leon County Seed Library
grown by Jeanne

Jelly Melon


Double fused
Blackeyed Susan

Feeding the wildlife—
A happy caterpillar
on/in a green bean


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