I never thought I’d see it! We have about a dozen broccoli and cauliflowers forming. As you can see the leaves are getting eaten up. I’ve picked off a good number of cabbage moths. I’ll probably get BT for the kale and turnips and things I’m planning on putting out soon.

Last week I watered on account of the lack of rain and I also applied some liquid kelp to the brassicas and tomatoes. I also spread some clover and vetch around the plants hoping they’ll germinate and provide a little nitrogen boost.

Still no tomatoes besides a few cherries, but there are lots of fruits we just need a decent rain. Who knows, maybe it’ll rain in august sometime.

Lack of labor? I haven’t been out to the garden much recently – I’m swamped with my other jobs. Chris has been spending a few days a week out there, but the weeds are starting to take over and we haven’t gotten rain for a long, long, long time…

He did haul a hose over and water as much as he could. We keep hearing of rain storms both north and south of us, but nothing ever seems to fall here.

Last Thursday I saw lots of flowers on our squashes, and a few small summer squash fruits as well. Chris picked three for dinner Tuesday – two small zucchinis, and a fairly good sized sebring summer squash. Unfortunately, my camera batteries were dead and we couldn’t wait for them to charge to eat dinner. So you get this lovely picture of an okra plant to look at instead.

Yesterday Jessi and I weeded around the tomatoes. The ground is quite dry and compacted. We added some compost on all the tomatoes and brassicas, but I am not too optimistic. A few rows still need some straw. Things haven’t gone how I imagined they would in my head, but I still think we will get some tomatoes out of the deal if little else. A lot of our tomatoes look really small while others are bearing fruit.