Micro-Climates - Growing Veggies in What Ever Space You Can Find - Welcome to My July Garden

Living in the Boreal forest I've found it necessary to make use of small garden plots spaced in different openings in the forest through out our property. This is my entry for the July edition of the SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge. #gardenjournal2018
Come and join me for a quick tour of my garden.
As I step out my door I keep my herbs close by on the deck for handy picking plus it is one of the warmest sunniest spots.

That's my dog Bruno

The taro and coleus were gifts from my daughter-in-law who had been helping out at the university greenhouses. I'll be taking it into the sun room for the winter and see if I can get some roots worth harvesting in the Taro. Our apple tree is putting on a nice crop of apples this year. Can't wait for the harvest - they are so sweet!

Inside the sun room we're getting a nice crop of figs.

Outside the sun room, on the south side of the house, I've planted some heat loving plants in containers that I will bring into the sun room for the winter to continue the harvest.

Here's an over view of our side yard with the new apple tree planting by the comfrey, the greens garden and the covered garden. (sorry about the sideways view)

Inside the covered garden I have a few cucumbers in the front, some peppers, theses were some that I got at a reduced price for end of the season for selling bedding plants, my celery and some potatoes that I threw into an open space the first part of July. They were sprouting in the root cellar so I decided to put them in this empty space in the covered garden where I could extend the growing season and hopefully get a harvest off them. They are growing good so far.

Inside the covered garden I mostly have tomatoes to extend the growing season for them and keep the moisture off them so they don't get black spot on their leaves or blight with the cool moist weather we have here. I've attached them to strings attached to slates that I can hit to vibrate the plants and pollinate the tomato flowers. I prune the leaves right back, so their energy can go into producing tomatoes not leaves.

Over view of the middle garden where I grow arugula, beans, Swiss chard, beets peas, green onions, broccoli, cabbage, kale, cucumbers and squashes.

The acorn squash is starting to set some fruit but the cucumbers aren't doing so well. I think I have to enrich the soil some more for next year.

The broccoli is putting on good heads, we've already eaten a few of them and the cabbages are starting to form their heads. I had put some row cover over all the cabbages for late frost protection and to keep the cabbage butterflies from laying eggs on them (see the white cloth on the plants in the previous picture, that is the row cover, now on just a few of the cabbage plants.) The cabbage seedlings were stretching a bit and not forming good heads so I took it off theses and just left it on a few that the growth was more advanced on.

The peas are flowering and just starting to pod. I'm trying an new variety that is self supporting and suppose to be very productive called Canoe

We've been eating some of the Swiss chard and the beans are now starting to flower.

My last picture is of the raspberry patch ready for the first picking. It looks like it's going to be a good year for raspberries. M-m-m raspberries and cream!