The Hoop

The hoop is in full effect. Once again extending our limited growing season at 48 degrees latitude. The 18 species of heirloom tomatoes are just now turning red. We harvested nearly 30lbs of purple potatoes from the open air garden. Along with some delicious garlic. The largest bulbs will fill in the row where the potatoes were. The last 10 days have been a wonderful indian summer. Even the nights were in the upper 40's. The carrot seed plant and oregano still are in full bloom along with the curiosity nigella, borage, olympic mullein and calendula. Dahilias in red, pink and lavender are still hanging in there. The taramuhara chia took a dive with the last frost but sprouted up a basal growth during the last few warm days. Our broccoli has been enjoyed by the resident deer. Our spaghetti squash seem to develop the best compared to the caserata, black beauty, yellow, hokaido and libra squash. The aztec nicotania is intoxicating under the hoop with honeysuckle shaped white flowers only a hummingbird could penetrate.