Vegetable Garden

The snow peas had stopped blooming so it was time to pull the plants and let the tomatoes have more room. Here are the before pictures of the two beds with the snow peas with tomatoes above. And the snow peas with lettuce and chard below.
Here is the bed with the tomatoes. Now they have room to spread out more.
I planted three hills of zuchini in this bed. Don't know how they'll do and if there is enough room.
I then sat on the porch and pulled off all the snow peas. We'll have some tonight and I'll freeze the rest. It was quite a harvest.

Disappointments

I take it very personally when a plant doesn't do well. I figure it is partly my fault as the gardener. I have several disappointments this year. I had three purple cone flower plants last year. The ground hog did a number on them but I thought my chicken wire had helped them survive. Well, only one came back this year and the ground hog is at it again. I've put chicken wire around it and am hoping for its survival.

I purchased marigolds and planted them in various spots. They are slowly succumbing to the slugs or at least that's what I think is getting them.

On the north side I have lots of lavender. This is the third year for these plants. I am saddened by the amount of die off with these plants. Look at these pictures. What happened to make these die back so?

I trimmed as much of the dead parts out as I could. I even did it twice. I don't know if they will fill out or not.This is the worst one. I don't know if any of it will come back.

New Blooms and Promise of More

Stella d'oro day lilies.

Sundrops

Lavender

Snap dragons preparing to bloom.

Other day lilies.

Yarrow will bloom this week.

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