August's Garden

This has been a hard summer for my garden, can only blame it on neglect. Neglect on my part. We’ve been away too many weekends this summer and you can tell when you look at my garden. I mentioned before that we were transitioning to raised beds. I was thinking of all the benefits of raised beds and did not consider the negative aspects. Number one being they need more water! Our soil is rather sandy and even with the addition of compost the soil tends to dry out. Having the garden beds raised seems to help the soil dry out even more. For next year I will have to make sure I have a better supply of compost in each bed and water regularly. I also muck the beds which does help but the tomatoes and peppers would definitely appreciate a constant supply of water!
One thing we have had in abundance is weeds! If you look carefully you will see I will also be harvesting some carrots!
The good news is that there are lots of green tomatoes, finally picked my first red one this week! What sort of tomatoes are you growing in your garden?
August means lots of Black Eyed Susan everywhere! I just love them. They reseed every year.
Another wonderful thing about August is the abundance of blueberries, we have early, mid and late season bushes so once they start to come in we will have blueberries until the first frost...which can be in September!
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  • Douglas Hunt Douglas Hunt on Aug 07, 2014
    This was such a nice post until you had to go and mention that darned "f" word!
  • Jeanette S Jeanette S on Aug 07, 2014
    Great post! Gardening is difficult to keep up with at times. But enjoy what you do get to harvest!
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