The summer garden went in a couple of weeks ago, since I never got around to finding community garden space I am just working with my tiny back yard and my garden at work. At work I planted kale and rainbow chard. The kale is doing well but my chard keeps getting sunburned, so I planted a row of green beans to shade them. Hopefully the chard will come back this fall and my kale will enjoy the extra shade during the hot summer as well. I also planted some tomatoes and eggplant at work. In the back yard I planted some Queenland Blue pumpkins, zucchini, more tomatoes and eggplant, potatoes, and some cucumbers. I made some room when we ripped up the hops (poison to dogs) so I have more space to work with than before. I already lost one tomato to a dog attack, however I am hoping it comes back. Gardening with dogs is a P.I.T.A., my dog eats my organic fertilizer and won't stay out of the garden beds. This wasn't a problem before when my back yard was planted in hops and raspberries since the plants are/were established, sturdy, and thorny in the case of the raspberries. Now she's having a blast running in the newly exposed beds and digging for kitty kandy so we are going to have to do something to protect the poor vegetables.
Speaking of raspberries and thorns, I am trialing a new thorn-less raspberry variety, Canby. I hope it works out because it is nearly impossible to weed the raspberries once they get to a certain point due to the thorns. My arms get shredded. If this bush seems to do as well as my current variety I am going to slowly fill the raspberries in with it. My current plans are aging a bit so they need an infusion of fresh blood anyways. That's about all for the garden for now.
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