garden overview

I was gone for a week holiday recently. On return, I was busy. Just barely got the grass mowed a few days ago, and now it's decent to take pictures. The garden is rather shabby, but still here (clockwise from left) leeks, peppers, turnips, marigolds, collard greens, leaf beet chard, green onions, herbs.

View from the other side.

Looking down from above- on the left here the blank space behind collards and leaf chard is where I pulled up the kale. We haven't been eating it- I find the chard and collards are nicer greens- and it's just getting riddled with holes by the cabbage loopers. On the right, turnips and marigolds.

Looking the other way- there's the smaller permanent herb bed. With lavender, sage, nepitella, sorrel, lemon balm and green onions.

It all needs some work- more mulch in particular, and a compost feeding. I'm getting to that soon. There are still not too many weeds to pull, but I spent hours the other day (when it was finally below ninety degrees and I could tolerate being outside long) picking off caterpillars, smacking white cabbage moths and mealy bugs, removing diseased and dead foliage. Looks somewhat cleaner now.