Fenton Friday: Hot Hot Hot

The heat and humidity was bad this week - we are baking just like most of the rest of the US and Europe! We did a bit of weeding and I'm watering almost daily. I plucked a few self-sown burgundy Celosias and Holy Basil plants from out of the plot's central pathway and put them in the cutting garden rows where we'd given up on the Butterfly Monardo (Bergamot Bouquet) and Verbena bonariensis 'Vanity'.

The rest of the cutting garden plants are humming right along, Those include: Zinnia 'Queeny Lemon Peach' [pictured here] and a pink-orange Zinnia mix, Celosia Flamma Orange, Hummingbird Nasturtiums Aloha Mix, and Cut Flower Marigolds Xochi Orange. We'll be cutting armfuls of all of them in a week or two. I also saw that the Gomphrena from last year had reseeded itself too and I may move that over to the cutting garden are also -- once things cool off a bit.

The Basil seedlings are looking great as are the Okra and Pumpkins.

I picked a few more Blackberries to eat.

The tomatoes and peppers are loading with flowers and fruits, but it will be a few weeks until they'll be ripening 

What are you growing and eating this week from your edible garden?

About Fenton Friday: Every Friday during the growing season, I'll be giving you an update on my community garden plot at the Fenton Street Community Garden just across the street from my house in zone 7 Mid-Atlantic MD/DC border. I'm plot #16. It is a 10 ft x 20 ft space and this is our 11th year in the garden. (It opened in May 2011.) See past posts about our edible garden by putting "Fenton" into the Search box above.