as summer winds down and the days grow shorter, you would expect it to cool off. for the month of august, it only seemed to get hotter and even waiting until late afternoon to head out to the garden offered little relief from the heat. i had hoped for a larger group of volunteers but only margaret and shirley were able to join us in the garden. shirley brought a new friend to the garden and he has decided to stick around and keep an eye on the herbs for me...
this year, shirley thought it would be fun to make tin men with the junior master gardeners. it was a lot of work and then i asked her to make a giant one for the herb garden. he turned out great and we cannot thank shirley enough for making him!
our main task for the afternoon was to begin removing the passion flower from the herb garden. i confused two seedlings-passion flower and roselle(thai hibiscus) and the results were nearly disastrous. that passionflower quickly spread and we will be removing it for some time! we did want one for the arbor and i planted several roots into a huge pot that has been sunk into the soil near the arbor-lets hope that keeps it contained!
after the digging we set our sights on the small bed near the herb garden and it was quickly weeded.
sugar bear also joined us in the garden and she didn't like the heat much either. however, she did dig up and kill a mole first thing so we let her lounge in the dirt.
a look at what is going on in the garden:
cinnamon basil in full bloom
egg plants
pumpkins in the compost corral
honeybees in the sunflowers
skippers like chive blossoms too
so many cayenne peppers
beauty berry loaded with berries
black and blue salvia in bloom-a hummingbird magnet!
the creeping jenny in the roof top garden glows
the dish is filling in nicely
but on closer inspection, it is obvious that the deer jump into the dish and eat the sweet potato vines!
