This part of the year is second-hardest** for me garden-wise. It's so full of potential it drives me crazy. The peas and lettuce are all done, the broccoli is long pulled up, and the first tomato has been picked. But most things in our garden are still in their blooming phase. We have peppers and tomatoes that are still days, perhaps weeks from ripening in any quantity and it really tries a hungry gardener's patience!
**The hardest time for me in the garden is early early spring--March and early April when the winter seems to last forever






It's hard to wait patiently for everything to set fruit and ripen...it's july and I always feel that harvest should be in full swing (of course it never quite is 'til August...but you know)

Maybe it'd be easier to wait if our beans (all 4 varieties of them--although the Blue Coco are the least effected) hadn't been stricken down by something...Is it a nutrient deficiency? A disease? There aren't all that many insect holes so I doubt it's that.....What then?