My peas are about a foot tall. In Maine, we hope for peas for the 4th of July, so we can have them for the traditional holiday meal, which is Alaskan salmon with egg sauce, garden fresh peas, some fashion of potato and strawberry shortcake.

Deep chipped leaf mulch on each side of the rows for early support because Thalassa Cruso said so.

My onions will look sad to the rest of you, but they're doing just fine for here. Four leaves.

Partly decomposed leaf mulch. I wonder if I should pull that back a little. It might be damper than I planned.

These were planted too early,

and they just sat still, which I expected. I'm replanting today. Cukes.

My sole tomato is not getting enough light in the cuke bed, so I'm moving it today. My yard gets less light every year.

Dock planters getting planted with pedestrian flowers, which can handle unrelenting sun. I hope they look better in July than they do right now, because I'm not loving what I've done. I'm annoyed because I just started slamming stuff in last week. Plus I planted some seeds directly--- I'll probably move those seedlings out today.

And the homliest boat on the lake is in the water. The dock is waiting for me to get some gumption.

I'm planting green beans in my flower beds today, two seeds here, two seeds over there. I like the way they look in a flower bed, plus I hope to confuse my deer.

We're now picking the bush beans and cukes. I harvested the last of the beets and will dig up the remaining carrots by this weekend. The tomatoes are coming in now at 1 per day but that number should pick up soon. Should have our first ear of corn in 4-5 days, corn planting #3 just popped up. Blueberries are coming in strong thanks to well watering. Watermelon and Cantaloupe vines are spreading out, blooming, and taking over the vacated cabbage, broccoli, and beets spot.

The drought continues but we did get a heavy but brief downpour an hour ago which left about 1/4'", not much but it's better than nothing. The next 2 daze will hit 98/99F with a promise of a good rain next Tuesday > 6 days away, we'll see how that works out. The local farmers are getting desperate.

oops, almost forgot, the Squash is coming in good too.

I pulled out the bush beans now that they have stopped blooming and also dug up the remaining carrots. This empty space will soon be filled in with cantaloupe vines as they spread out and set fruit (4 already set). The watermelon vines are also spreading out fast and I had to remove several pretty cosmos and zinnias that had reseeded from last year that were in the way. There are still many of both flowers throughout the garden so lots of color to go around. The sweet potato vines are also spreading out now but I'll need to trim those back to give the melons more room.
So far we've picked about 20 tomatoes with many more to come. The first peppers are shaping up nicely too. We're giving away squash daily, way too much. The cukes are slower but will pick up soon for pickle making. I started some new tomato and cuke seeds for a later harvest. More rain is predicted later for this week which is needed and welcome.

Annie,Annie,Annie, have you not heard a word I've said? If you plan to live the the good life #1 Never allow mom to brush your hair if she's mad or in a hurry #2 Never "just slam stuff in" if you expect it to grow. #3 It's not nice to try and confuse mother nature.

I'll have to say I'm proud of you for putting the dock off until cooler weather. Just watch your drinking while at sea, those boards are only wide enough for well placed steps on your way back to land.

At least two deer grazed through here last night and got flowers. I was grateful for all they missed, but I'm going to be mad if the come back tonight.

My peas are beautiful and covered with dense flowers. They're snowpeas. I'll do better grazing on them, I hope, because I neglected to harvest my regular peas to their fullest last year.

Where are my green beans I planted 12 days ago?!

When I read vgkg's post, it feels like fall and I'm panicking how far behind I am. I think everything is going fine for here though---especially given how little overall sunlight my garden receives. My onions are bigger than my friend's down the road, so that's all that counts.

I assume trees are main thing limiting sun, have you looked to see if removeing some lower limbs would help?

Klem!!

I try very hard to commit everything you say to memory, and anything I'm worried about forgetting, I jot down in my notebook (the second in the series): Wise Words from Klem

Yes, lobbing off some lower branches would help. I guess I'll give that more thought. I've removed a few large lower branches from firs and a large maple, but the fir branches that are remaining droop almost to the ground but are attached to the tree 20 or more feet up. The last high maple branch I cut slid down my ladder and almost knocked me off. It never occurred to me that mass and gravity work hand in hand so immediately. Maybe I'll walk around hacking at some smaller trees today. I might not get the sun to shine down, but I'll get more light in. Wait!! This is the last thing I need to do today, though, now that I think about it.

I am determined to erradicate the bindweed that took over my yard last year and spoiled my gardening. I must have brought it onto my property via the local grass and leaf dump. My entire front yard (lake-facing) is "garden" in theory, because I quit mowing in the 90s, but nothing sweet and meadow-like grew, so I started planting the entire space---with a lot of stuff I now regret. It also is making the containment of the bindweed almost impossible. I'm supposed to go out every morning from 7-9 and hand pull it, but most mornings lately, I find myself feeling more and more like you---lackluster, procrastinating, unable to get out of my own way.

I have four loons out front almost every morning (They should be on eggs, so they must have been unsuccessful this year.) and I find myself sitting down there with a cup of coffee between 7-9 while the bindweed meanders.