Tomatoes are Turning Red!

We haven't had much rain and it's been very hot over the last couple of weeks which means many of my plants have been looking wilty.  So I've been giving each a good personal soak.

The sunflower is more than 5.5 feet tall and we continue to harvest yellow squash and zucchini.  In fact, there has been so much squash that I'm  not sure I can give any more away without alienating my friends.  ;-)  So I'm thinking about drying some.  The blanching and freezing that I did last year was not great and there's only so much zucchini bread that one can make.

I decided to put my weeding efforts elsewhere last week so my veggie garden is looking a little rough.

We planted 9 trees this past spring and put fencing around the smaller ones to protect them from teething puppies and lawn mowers.  I promise there is a pine tree behind that wall of weeds.

I weeded around each of the new trees then added a generous amount of alpaca manure.

Next up is the front flower garden.  Of course, I use the terms flower and garden loosely.

Hubba has been diligently weeding over the last few weeks.  Between the Mint  and Thistle this space has been a huge disaster area.  Seriously folks, please don't plant Mint anywhere except a container. Pleeeeaaase.