Took some daylight shots after the evening watering round. While late, everything is coming along, except for my one cuke which may be getting too much shade (they like some, so I planted them near the fence where they'll get shade from early evening on, but that one might be too close...fence is on the west side of them). Difference is dramatic between it and the one next to it, of course. The one next to it finally sent up a runner, so I pulled the tip through the trellis and trained it onto it. I don't think I said what I'm growing, so I've got spacemaster cucumbers (vines are only supposed to get to 3'), blue lake pole beans, purple velour bush beans, sweetie pie and chabils sweet peppers, serendipity triple sweet corn, sunstripe summer (yellow) squash, poquito zucchini (they look like mini watermelons!) (both not quite visible since they're just germinating), and midnight snack, golden gem, and sweet million cherry tomatoes. The extra pots around the garden are a friend's container garden I'm babysitting while they're out of town. They're all way too dry, so my goal is to rehab them to the point they actually hold water before they're sent back home Tuesday.
I couldn't get to the weeds underneath my black raspberries anymore, so I pulled out most of the spent woodocanes today. Not the best day for it (the high was 98!), but it's done and now I can weed under them.
The yard is really coming together. I need to do a little pulling and spraying along the fence lines, but it's soooo much better than this time last year, when I had weeds growing rapidly through both fences and all throughout the garden. I would like to thank plastic mulch, Vigoro weed barrier, Round Up, my handyman Louis, and Hometown Landscape (they did the dry well and walkway...recommended if you're in the DC metro area). Also Park Seed for the good plants and Bluestone Perennials for the good flowers (not pictured here, but before in front yard photos, and I'm going to buy the stuff for the coming flowerbed to the right of the walkway from them).