How does your garden grow July 2011 style?

Shhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone, but the garden doesn't look like this anymore.  It looks much better!  I took several pictures on July 18th and haven't had time to put them in a blog.  I'm pretty sure that I can back date a blog posting so that no one will know it is really July 31st.  Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Mike has been thoroughly disgusted with how the garden has been progressing so I had to take a walk back and see how everything looked myself and folks, it's not that bad.  OK, the sweet corn situation is not that good, but everything else is coming along.  There have been two problems.  One is that everything got planted really late.  We had this problem last year too and I had to pull up the pictures from July 2010 blog to show Mike that the garden looks pretty similar this year compared to last year and last year turned out good.  Second is that since planting time we have had very little rain.  Very little means that in the last 2 or 3 weeks we have had only 0.1 inch of rain twice.  Throw on top of that temps in the 90's and the plants are starting to feel the stress.  Our dry conditions may surprise our neighbors in the counties to the west and south of us because recently they had storms come through that dumped 4-5 inches of rain in just an hour or two.  But we sat here watching the weather radar and hoped for SOME of that and got basically nothing.

The tour of the July 18, 2011 garden goes something like this:

Cucumbers as long as my hand

Broccoli

Peppers

Cantaloupe

Watermelon

Tomatoes

 Zucchini

  Onions

An overall view of the vegetable garden where the plants planted on plastic are

Gabby in the sweet corn (like I said, not so good, but later planted corn is doing better)

Gabby hanging out in the soybeans

This blog is dedicated to next year when Mike once again is worried about how everything looks in July, but then turns out OK in August and September.  Grow, garden, grow.