Erin's land journal

The painted mountain and magic manna (which is a selection out of painted mountain) look quite similar, as plants. They're silking and pollen dropping, for the most part.

Weirdly cascade ruby gold is starting to drop pollen but I see very few silks in it. The tallest tassel is 8' tall or something like that. Maybe it needs water?

Saskatoon white has two different flower colours but looks pretty uniform otherwise. It's had silks out for a couple days now.

Atomic orange is in full silk.

Saskatchewan rainbow has so so so many cobs on the plants, I can't wait to open them.

The first open oak party tassel is visible, it's definitely not going to make it. Likewise homestead yellow and early riser, though they are all huge plants.

There are a bunch of big green tomatoes in the promiscuous patch, I need to get in there and do some pruning. Likewise Mikado Black has a bunch of quite large tomatoes about ready to turn, and I suspect Minsk Early is about to give a bunch of smaller ones. Meanwhile the northern mixed row is variable, some plants have a bunch of nice-looking fruit and some really do not. There's a weird potato leaf plant that has tiny marble-sized fruit that don't look like they're getting any bigger. That might be a bee cross, and woth checking out the F2 on.

I should plant everything further apart for screening purposes, though planting it close together for pollination purposes was a legit idea. I'm likely to miss fruit in this jungle though.

A second melon has started, on a different plant, that looks similar in shape to the first melon. It would be hilarious if I got melons but not squash this year?

One particular squash has elongated football-shaped fruits on its female flowers, yellow with a green patch, and the three plants spread across my different plantings are super super vigorous both from seed and from transplant. I'm curious about which squash it is. Tons and tons of flowers on all the squash but not very many squashes growing. There are some, though, and lots of busy bees in the flowers.

Bees *love* arugula and I think are neglecting the rest of the garden for it.

The bouchard peas are sizing up nicely. They're such manageable little plants, I put them in with turnips and they're all the same height.

Lots of flowers on the beans but no baby beans. Um?

Some pods sizing o=up on the favas finally.

I need to plant the fall favas soon. And sort out my fall grain.

I've been cutting heads off the dango mugi barley on my deck as they hit hard dough stage, I don't want birds to get them. That is a very, very successful seed increase, I'll have something like two dozen heads from 5 seeds planted this spring at this rate.

Planted seed for dwarf, micro, and F1 tomatoes for the winter.

Transplanted a bunch of peppers into 1 gallon containers.

Bought a bunch of hydroponics stuff in prep for winter.

I'm really, really enjoying the garden right now. Even the raspberries, which I totally neglected, are being nice to me.