In-Between Time

My garden's in sort of an in-between stage right now. The spring crops are about done, and the summer crops aren't ripe yet.

I harvested the garlic today, along with the last of the snow peas, a few strawberries, and a lone ground cherry.

I need to clear out the dregs of arugula (all flowering at this point) in the garlic bed, and crackly yellow pea plants in my two pea beds, and quickly figure out what to plant in those spots next. I'm thinking short season pumpkins in the pea beds. I'm not sure what to plant where the garlic was. Beets? Mini carrots? Or is there such a thing as a short season cucumber? Is it too early/hot to plant cabbage or broccoli for a fall harvest? I need to do some research, STAT.

My ever bearing strawberries are in a lull right now, but are flowering again, so it should be strawberry fiesta time again soon!

My warm weather crops are all getting bigger, but aren't quite mature yet.

Summer crop beds

The bush beans on the right are *just* about to flower. The ground cherries (front center) are going crazy. There are already hundreds of green ground cherries all over them, and more flowers coming.

Peeking in on the ground cherries

Tomatillos are doing well too.

My tomato and pepper plants finally have fruit! But nothing's ripe yet.

I'm also having the problem with my tomatoes that I seem to have every year. I have lots of flowers, but many of them just shrivel up and die before becoming fruit. I'm almost positive this is because it's been so insanely humid lately. Tomato flowers are self pollinating. In theory as long as there's a breeze or a bee to jiggle them around they should become tomatoes. When it's extremely humid though the pollen gets sticky and doesn't work its magic. A few days ago I started going out each morning to manually shake my tomato plants. Hoping that will help!

It takes about three weeks for garlic to dry out and cure before it's ready to eat and store. Within three weeks I  might just have ripe tomatoes, tomatillos  and peppers. I think I see salsa in my future!