June has been a hectic month for me. I was out of town for the first two weeks of the month, back for a week, and then gone for another five days. I was desperate to get back to my garden as you can imagine. But in spite of my absence, the garden survived, imagine that!!! I got lucky that it rained so much, eventhough I had my husband ready and willing to water in my absence. When I got back everything had grown so much, I was taken back by it. In my humble partial opinion, it looks wonderful. Here is a picture.


When I got back, my husband helped me building the trellises for the cucumbers and the melons. They turned out to be quite simple, we used electrical conduit and then I sprayed painted them in green so they would look a bit better in the garden. Now, the only thing pending is building a cage around the tomatoes to prevent any squirrel attack. My husband has already a design in mind, so that’s coming, I really dont know how he is going to build it, so it will be a surprise for me, yay!
So the peas did really good, my small makeshift trellises did ok, at the end they started to lean over and looked a bit like the tower of Pizza, but they did their job.

Another one that did good were the spinachs and the lettuces. We have been eating salad greens from the garden since the end of May. My original idea of the peppers shading the spinach did not work out too well. While I was away the spinach did not get cut down or trimmed so they grew like crazy and started actually shading the peppers, I had to do some major trimming when I got to the garden to rescue my peppers. So we ate tons of spinach for a week. Now I already pull them out since it’s getting a too warm for them and they were starting to bolt. The lettuces, buttercrunch, on the other hand are still sweet. I have them under a cover to shade them a bit. The little ceasars got already bitter, so I have to finish pulling them out. I will replace them with some Jericho which is supposedly heat tolerant, we’ll see. 
Now I’m waiting for the next batch of veggies to mature. I have some baby cucumbers, the carrots are still to small (I pulled some just to check, they were so sweet), the zucchinis are huge and have lots of female flowers but still yet to set one. The melons same story, lots of flowers, but still nothing. I have been checking them daily because I have cucumber beetles galore, and I yesterday I caught two squash bugs, ohhhh, they have found me. The plants are still ok, but I already planted a couple of replacement plant where the broccoli was, just in case. Here is a picture of the squashes (zucchinis).
One of my original concerns with the squashes was space but they seem to be doing ok. They are starting to spill over into the path. They have taken like half of it, but there is still plenty room for walking by. Now, if only they would start producing. They other experiment I did was with the sunflowers and the pole beans. Well so far so good, everybody seem very happy. The problem I see is that I’m going to have problems reaching the beans, they are climbing up from the netting I set up for them onto the sunflowers that are as of now over I don’t know 7 feet tall, there is no way I can reach up there unless I get my stepping ladder, lol!


Another issue I have encounter so far, and this one is out of my control, is the weather. I planted everything the first week of may, but since then we have had so many overcast or/and rainy days that all my heat loving plants have been struggling. I hope they get better soon. Here are other shots of the potager.











The Carrots I planted on April 06, have germinated and are doing great also. We had a couple of squirrel encounters but so far no much damage.
I planted two kinds of lettuces from seeds, and they all germinated great. 
The beets are another one that have been slow to germinate. Here is how they look after almost a month.
Here are my seedlings waiting to go on the ground. After the rains we are expecting this Wednesday, I will start putting them on the ground. The nights should stay above 50, and the days just above 70. Also the oak tree across the street should be done releasing all its polen and will be able to stay outside longer. My allergies are at their worst right now.
I have been having some problems with some of the seedlings, the zuchinnis have some yellow leaves and some discoloration (yellow) on others. I dont know what is causing it. 



