Summer moves on

The weather remains fairly wet.  We've had some hot days in the low 90s but this weekend was very pleasant in the 70s.  My zuchinni are shown coming up here amount the weeds.  We had a good rain right after I planted all of my gourds and melons and these were coming out of the ground in a few days.  The damp soil has delayed my weeding, though.

My tomato patch needs weeding to but is growing with all of the rain.  I do need to get my cages up soon.  I replaced the six plants that I lost to the heavy rains with a few poor looking transplants that I had left but they are surviving and coming along.  I need to do some weeding here too.

I plant my sweet corn in three phases about two weeks apart, so with my late start this year I am still waiting on the last phase.  The first planting is up and almost a foot high now.  

I have pole beans between the first two poles and peas between the second.  It is quite late for peas but we will see what happens.  I need to get the netting up to climb for these real soon.

The fruit trees are coming along well too.  This is a Golden Delicious apple tree that has not borne fruit for three years or so as it was hit hard by borers, but it is recovering with the loss of a few limbs and is setting on very heavily this year.

Peaches are also setting on heavily.  I really should have thinned these.

Also asian plums are setting on well on this tree for the first time this year.

My blackberry plants are producing for the first time this year and are setting on well.  They had a longer bloom time than I expected -- some blooms are still there as some fruit is almost ripe.

My concord grapes are setting on pretty well this year and I may actually have enough to do something with.

These Norton grapes are also setting on heavily on some of the vines that have climbed the support trellises. 

The bees are still finding some forage though their main honey flow is probably about over.  Here a bee is working the white clover growing just outside the garden fence.

I did check my North hive today and wasn't quite sure how it was doing.  There were lots of bees but not as much brood as I would have expected.  There were also several swarm cells on the bottom of the brood area.  I will check them again in a week.  I only popped the top on the south hive and it appeared to have completely filled and capped the fifth box with honey so I guess I need to either get more boxes or an extractor.