"Gardening In Maine"

Top of the morning to you! I headed out to the garden early this morning and picked a shirt full of beans {that's a measurement … a shirt, right?} and our very first costata romanesco zucchini.

I think I'm going to make the HH's favorite Ritz Cracker chicken and green beans for dinner tonight and a chocolate zucchini cake for dessert. I didn't go overboard on planting zucchinis this year but I am looking forward to make a quiche with the next one when its ready in a few days.

The pumpkin patch is coming along… no babies yet though.

And all those blue hydrangeas I planted last fall… well those are coming in pink this year. 🙂 Pink, blues and whites are my favorite colors when it comes to flowers in the garden, so I'm totally okay with it.

Here's the latest aerial photo of our garden plot the HH took with his drone.

In the garden boxes we currently have: tomatoes, basil, peppers, beans, cilantro, dill, beets, lettuce, sorrel, eggplant, watermelon, cucumbers and another thing or two I am probably forgetting.

In the ground we have blue berry bushes, onions, raspberry plants, brussels sprouts, broccoli, asparagus and pepper plants. I even started a few pumpkin seeds in there somewhere but they are still pretty small. I think we are getting close to cutting our first head of broccoli off the stalk though, so that's exciting.

Round 2 of the basil is coming in nicely.

And the tomatoes are really starting to take off.

And finally, we are starting to see a few cucumber babies.

It's been a good week in the garden. Today we'll be out there cleaning up the hosta border in the back, but other than that we are pretty much on maintenance mode in the garden these days… which is a really, really nice place to be.

And last but not least, our current forecast.

The HH and I have been keeping track of the weather not only where we live, but a few hours north of us. Where we are right now summer temps in the 80's are pretty much the norm… but up the coast the weather is a solid 10+ degrees cooler during the summer months.

This living in Maine thing… it takes some time to figure out. 😉

Have a great weekend everyone,

Keep Calm and Garden On.

~Mavis

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