Three Varieties from Our Garden--June 2025
I read a couple of blogs that show their harvest every Monday and describe conditions and varieties. I can't do a Monday post each week, but I thought I'd share 3 varieties of veggies and flowers from our garden in June.
Top left is Fiesta Time hollyhocks. They are shorter than normal varieties because they top out at 4 feet. I love it because they look like little pink fireworks from across the backyard. The lower leaves at the base are pretty ugly, so I have a some palm sedge that I hope fills that in and makes it prettier.
Top right is National Pickling cucumbers. I love this variety because it produces tons of blocky cukes intended for pickles. You can eat them fresh, but we have another variety for that. We usually have to throw away some cukes every year because we get so many. We may sell these at the farmer's market near here later in the year. Last year, Emma told me to pull up the plants early because she was sick of all the cukes and had made enough pickles to last a year. We opened the last jar the week we got our first cucumbers.
Bottom right is Butterstick Hybrid summer squash. They are about twice the size of a stick of butter. We like them because they are small enough to work with, have a thick enough skin to hold for a couple of weeks in the fridge, and taste great. The plants also don't sprawl too quickly. They are great for shredding to make zucchini bread and zucchini cake. Emma also slices them for squash casserole. We like them a lot. We grow them early by starting them indoors. Then we pull them up when the squash vine borers come out or the plant just gets too big and takes over the beds.
