Oh wow! It's been a long time since I've blogged about my garden. Well, I took the summer off. We never took the summer off when I lived in Virginia and Tennessee -- prime gardening season! But everything's different in Texas I guess. Today marked our 59th day of triple-digit heat this summer. That's nearly 2 straight months. I've been so busy, the only times I've had available in the garden have been when temperatures were at their peak.
But we're back in the garden. This past weekend we drove down to our favorite local nursery, bought a few shade perennials and tons of seed packets for our fall vegetable garden. I'll blog about the shade perennials and our dreams of a cozy hammock garden in the shade of the big pecan tree -- but another time. I want to share some pictures from our garden.
When I walked out Saturday, this is what I saw:
My tomatoes were still alive, though many of the branches had dried up. The poor peppers had dried on the vine:
I planted a bunch of seeds on Sunday, including snap peas, fennel, dill, basil, and all kids of flowers. The peas, fennel and dill went in this bed:
I planted a mix of sunflowers close to the house. Luke picked out a sun perennial that we also decided to take home and adopt. I don't remember what it is, but I do remember reading that it is drought resistent, so we put it in the front, near the persimmon and agave.
The timer to the drip irrigation broke, so that's out of commission. It;s just as well, because Austin is enacting Stage 2 water restrictions in less than a week because of our drought, and there is not automatic watering more that once a week. I've been watering by hand twice a day. So far so good!