Early Corn (Ambrosia) now tasseling....

Carrots ready....

Tomatoes getting close now....

Tomato volentier, sprouted from the compost pile, probably Brandywine.

Lastly, some fruits....Blueberries getting close...

Figs shaping up...

The recent chilly spell here wimped my nice watermelon plants to about nothing. They might have made it if they had established well in the soil before the coldness, but alas. Also the cold made it hard to get green beans, lima beans, and winter squash going. Some other plants loved the extra cool weather ilke, onions, potatoes, strawberries, cauliflower, broccoli and peas.

The frost on the 31st didn't even make the strawberries or garlic blink, so those are fine. I covered the tomatoes/peppers/eggplant and they also survived. Onions and potatoes are growing right along and the cabbage/broccoli/cauliflower actually liked the cool weather, I think.

No beans (or much of anything else) up yet, but the first couple of corn plants are peeking through. Today I hoed that 4 rows of onions and 4 rows of potatoes and picked another handful of asparagus, I'm just waiting....

Annie

I nearly have everything planted! just finished up planting seed for the heat loving veggies and fruits. did direct seeding but I will still have enough of a season to get a harvest. .

6 Varieties of potatoes, 4 of them I can buy locally but 2 newer varieties I had ordered on line and with shipping each cost me $30 each. Ouch! Both are gaining popularity, Caribou and one they claim has very long storage up to a year without sprouting and without spraying with sprout inhibitor, Canela Russet, so I will see.

Behind the spuds are a row of okra not up yet and 3 patches of sweet corn with room for a 4th planted 10 to 12 days apart.

Here's my broccoli in a mesh net tunnel. I'm so pumped, they all have buttons and if the weather stays mild I may finally get a great harvest in two weeks bug free.

Next are 5 varieties garlic of which 3 are new to me. Next are 8 varieties of onions in search for the best. Since they discontinued Copra that was good and able to store for nearly a year I've been searching for a good yellow, and also a good red. Bought Clear Dawn they claim is Copra that has been stabilized and will see how it does.

Tomatoes, peppers and Brussels sprouts. If you don't use a pop-up on tomatoes you may want to give it a try, I get very little delay from transplant shock and they'tr off to the races.

This side I have my cucumbers, melons, squash, zucchini and green beans in. The other side on the left and back will be pole beans and asparagus beans tomorrow, with room for herbs.

Nice digs Kevin, do you deal with a local farmers market with all of that good produce? As for here, I picked the first Bush Beans today (Strike) along with more squash, cukes, and dug up the first carrots which have turned out to be a fine crop this year. VgQn is busy making pickles now and freezing the snaps and plentiful Blueberries this season. I set a couple of Hav-a-hart traps and relocated several squirrels (Blueberry magnets) but caught a Box Turtle today in one of them, only the 2nd time in 25 years trapping a turtle.
The extra early corn looks great and should be at peak ear perfection in about 10 days. spotted the first couple of Cantaloupes, about grape size as the Watermelons start to bloom. The Tomatoes look big & juicy but still green. Also dug 2 parallel rows for the Sweet Potato vines to re-root, so far so good, few pests found anywhere. No cuke beetles nor squash bugs, but it's still a bit early. Hope to post more pics soon.

I may have gotten some poor germination Strike green bean seed. I planted early and replanted but hardly anything . So I planted another variety...never had so much trouble getting beans...usually they are very reliable.

I don't have bug trouble on spring broccoli or caulilower...just fall ones. I have harvested nice heads of both in the last few days.

I am thankful to have missed heavy rain.

Wayne I grow Strike beans too and they can't be beat. I was also a little worried this year since my seed was dated 2021, but germination was good, est 90%.
Kevin, thanks for responding and you probably mentioned that some time back, my memory ain't what it used to be.

Today was HOT & HUMID here, we're expecting a good rain soon, was hoping for it yesterday but it passed to our north. Picked the first 3 tomatoes and the first ears of early corn will be ready in 2 days. Cukes & Squash coming in great. All melons are setting fruits and the Blueberries are going bonkers this year, best year ever.

Had to dig up all of the carrots at their peak, storing in the fridge. Peppers are coming in good too. Started a few late tomato plants today for a fall harvest and some late cukes which will take the place of the early corn. The Beans and Squash will soon come to an end, we have enough and the watermelons and cantaloupe vines will need their space soon......Come on rain! an inch would be nice.

We just had three days of rain and last week 3 days, and the week before 3 days. in fact I haven't had to water anything yet. What's so special about these strike green beans? I've never seen any on racks so is it something most people need to mail order? If they can't be beat then I WANT them! Next year for sure now.

Cucumbers I planted on the 5th came up 2 days ago and green, yellow and purple beans came up sometime during the days of rain. Cantaloupe, gala, honeydew, squash, zucchini and watermelon are all starting to pop up. All but the cantaloupe seeds were packaged for 2017 and wasn't sure if they'd still grow but did. I store in food saver vacuum bags in the freezer and works well.

Doing some changes this year on how I grow potatoes and tomatoes. I got a 300 of those little plastic ring clips to hold things up and love them, no more tying.

Kevin I got my Strike Bush Bean seed from Willhite Seed Co, have never seen them sold on local seed racks. One short row ~ 15' long will supply us 2 for a year, it's the most productive "snap" bean I've ever grown and very tender and stringless.

That rain missed us yesterday but we have another shot at it later today. My huge green tomatoes are so close to ripening that I'm reluctant to water them this morning and then get dumped on later which would surely split many of them.

I got 3 inches...don't think you would want that.

Boy, it would be nice if that rain spread out a bit more! Here in my part of Michigan there is rain North and rain South but we've gotten just about half an inch in the entire month of June, my pasture and hay field are suffering. I've been sprinkling the garden, and not much is ready for harvest, other than strawberries, garlic scapes and asparagus, as well as some lettuce.

Annie

After years trying I finally got a good broccoli harvest! Had steamed broccoli 2 nights in a row, and the rest in the picture will go into broccoli salad and a big pot of Chicken broccoli cheese soup to be frozen. If I have any left over I'll blanch and freeze it.

A small rabbit got into my Brussels sprouts so I pulled half the hoops from the broccoli and put mesh over it. Beans are up now so I need to find how the rabbit got in or end up with no green beans like my neighbor.

Holy Krapoly it's been Hot as H-ell and no doubt most of you have shared this same experience of late. The best I can do is work outside before 10am and then retire since even the evenings are too dang hot. We do expect a "cool down" into the 90's after today but that's not much of a relief. Now that our freezer is packed with snaps I went ahead and janked those out along with the squash plants. That vacated area will soon be taken up (now) by the expanding vines from the cantaloupes, watermelons, and sweet potatoes. Tomorrow I will brave the high temps to plant the late plot of sweet corn. Corn plot #2 is now at full tassle stage while plot #3 is just 12" tall.

Tomatoes and peppers are coming in good now and I planted a late crop of cukes. This recent Hot Wave has stopped all tomatoes from pollinating but that will hopefully resume soon. Lots of green ones out there, esp the Cherokee Purples. My late tomato seedlings are up and I expect to plant them outside in about 2 weeks or so. Storms are all around us as I type so hoping for some rain either today or tomorrow, we could use some now.

My garden is still growing, even though it's also been in the 90s here in Michigan, something that just doesn't happen in June normally. I harvested my first aspabroc but spend most of my time fighting with the family of groundhogs that have decided to take up residence right between the garlic patch and the strawberry bed. The minute a berry turns color, they have it. They have also eaten things that I find odd, like all the chives, two Dragon's Breath pepper plants and the leaves on the echinacea, which I didn't think anything would eat. They've left the garlic and horseradish, at least, although they completely destroyed my raised bed full of lettuces. While they were busy a deer decided to walk into my small 5x12 greenhouse and eat the tops off a raised bed of carrots, I didn't think they'd ever "trap" themselves in an enclosed space that size. It's still nice and green here, lots of forage, so I don't know why they are choosing to indulge now. Oh, and a separate den of groundhogs has eaten half of the green bean seedlings, so I replanted those. It must be the year of the groundhog, sheesh.

Annie

I too have a groundhog. I know where it's borrow is and watched it munch on clover this morning for 1/2 hour, and it saw me as I waved and talked baby talk to it. I could of shot it ten times over but hasn't done any harm to my gardens with fences around them. But now I'm worried based on your issues Annie and might reconsider my tolerance for the ground hog because it may have pups in it's den that will move out in late summer.

Kevin, I thought the one in the yard would stay there, but no such luck. Last year it climbed up onto the picnic table and ate tomatoes that were ripening there, so I don't know why I thought it would stay out of a raised bed. It's very clearly a female, since it has two smaller groundhogs with it, and a groundhog can have 3 litters a year, so that's a lot more groundhogs. I have a baited livetrap, which they have all ignored so far, the coyotes don't seem to eat them and they don't appear scared of much of anything.

If they would stay out of my gardens and stop burrowing under the foundation of the house, we could live in peace and harmony but they are destructive. Here in Michigan it is illegal to relocate them or release them any place other than your own property, which is reasonable.

Annie