June garden

We just harvested these strawberries, all at once! And here are some of the plants that yielded them. These were left in the yard by the sellers and they seem terrific - productive and tasty.



The garden is going great guns in general right now. Compare June 3 to June 11, eight days of beautiful hot weather. (Chard and collards, or is that cabbage? and tomatoes, basil, etc on the deck.)



Delicata squash; potatoes, with cucumbers and summer squash in the boxes. The boxes are taped with copper tape to ward off the slugs while the plants are small.



Beautiful clematis, one of two, also left by the sellers. Pretty little volunteer flowers. Roses climbing the deck. Back bed overview, now that we've seriously hacked back the bushes -- more sun for the veggies, please.



Lacinato kale in one of the raised beds; bolting cilantro on the left, more chard, onions. There's a steady supply of tasty leafy greens, the cooking kind, which are the best anyway if you ask me. Lettuce is slug bait around here.



We have a worm bin now, which seems to be doing fine, and which will eventually provide us with a steady supply of garden gold. (worm castings.) I made it with two nested opaque bins, ventilation holes in the top one. Full instructions are googleable. Here's the outside view, and the inside! Both boys are totally enchanted by the worms and love to observe them. Aaron says "Wormy, wormy! Want to see the wormy!" whenever we go outdoors.



He also loves to help with the digging.



Grandma and the boys enjoying the exterior living room.