green and purple

Making the most of what's thriving in the garden right now. 

Dinner's going to be was mashed potatoes, green-onion enchiladas and steamed (purple) green beans on the side. 

Funny, I went out there to cut the onions and kept seeing one thing after another that needed doing. So I cleaned up the zucchini (only one left)

and tomato plants (purple cherokees still doing the best)

Trimmed back some herbs and scattered their leaves among the other beds- left this bit of nepitella flowering as it was pretty-

Cut back the marigolds where they sprawled into the garden path-

There's flowers enough now

Deadheaded the tithonia, also echinacea and rudbeckia in the front side bed by the lilac bush (the ones in back I leave to set seed for the goldfinches, but up front visible from the sidewalk I want it tidier). Trimmed the hyssop up front, too- the one in back I let sprawl more. It's pale flowers rather pretty:

this one trailing onto the steps

Put a bit of wire fencing around my oakleaf hydrangea. 

Because the deer ate all my hostas and I think they were taking leaves off the hydrangea too.

So far whatever got my first cantaloupe hasn't damaged the second.