Morning Glories

Morning Glories are seen as an invasive plant in most climates. Here in Albuquerque it is nice to have a vigorous vine plant. It likes to grown around the beet and carrot beds, and I am hoping to encourage it to grow more this year. Mostly I like them because they are wonderful to photograph.

Lettuce Harvest

Even though I started our lettuce super late this year, it just keeps giving. I got a huge harvest about a week ago, and today got enough to last us another few days. Except for a hybrid that came back from last year, the lettuce shows no sign of going to seed. I am hoping to be able to harvest tomatoes and lettuce at the same time for once.

Summer Gardening

Summer crops are my favorite of the gardening season. Outside it is so hot I feel like I might pass out, and the bugs are driving me crazy. The tomatoes are thriving though, and there is a distant promise of watermelons and cantaloupe. Last summer I had more time in the spring than summer to garden so my crops fizzled in the hot summer drought. This year the spring was too windy, too dry, and too cold at night to get decent spring crops going, plus I was super busy until early June. Now I am focusing on summer crops, and am hoping to have a full fall garden.
Thursday, Juan and I managed to get sunflowers, ameranthus, beets, basil, cucumbers, green beans, watermelon and cantaloupe planted. The tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers are transplanted and doing fairly well. In the next week I want to plant some more carrots and basil and get the lima beans going.

Today's Harvest

Well, it has been a rough year for gardening so far. The birds ate my beets as soon as they came up, and I have been late planting everything. That said, it has been so windy and dry that it has been best not to have a lot of stuff to water right now. The tomatoes and peppers I started inside are finally transplanted and I am hoping to get beans, watermelons and cantaloupes out tomorrow. We got a huge harvest of lettuce and peas today. This year I decided to try planting lettuce thickly instead of in rows and it has really paid off. It shades itself and keeps the moisture sealed in longer. If only I could eat as much lettuce as I am producing.