A Fox or Two

I am trying to be better about blogging consistently and variously, but until then, you are just going to keep getting more pictures of our dog and vegetables. 

Matilda is large enough these days to where she can't fit through the many holes in the fenceline. So, we can let her wander around outside. She often likes to sunbathe on the threshold of our backdoor:

A couple weeks ago, we harvested our leeks after six months of photosynthesis:

I sure am glad that our house is being guarded by something that was a wolf 10,000 years ago:

Here's the "annex" of our garden. In the foreground, you see two tomato plants which I found growing as seedlings somewhere else in the garden I never planted them. They came from tomato seeds in our compost and I "rescued" them by transplanting them.

Directly behind the tomato plants, you see four small bushes. From the bottom left and going clockwise, we have sage, thyme, oregano, and rosemary. They all started off as small potted herbs from Trader Joe's. Behind the thyme, you can see a basil plant from Trader Joe's, which has almost completely floundered in the June gloom of Arroyo Grande:

Our artichokes are coming along swimmingly:

Besides the two tomato plants mentioned above, we also have 9 other ones growing elsewhere. I've tied them up on PVC pipes (remnants of a failed irrigation system) with a method called the "Florida Weave." Basically, tall stakes/pipes stand between every few plants and then the plants are woven to them as they grow taller and taller. This keeps the plants (which are fairly close together) growing vertically instead of into each other:

Dave Foote (Landlord aka Feudal Lord aka Lord of the Manor) says that corn should be "knee high by 4th of July." 4th of July is a week out and we are already knee-high. Hooooo-ey!

Some Roma tomatoes coming in. We are hoping to make tomato sauce out of these plants: