Monthly Garden Update ~ Garden Journal Challenge

Greetings, everyone! Since I've been busy at work, it's left me with little time but has also made me lazy to spend what I do have on my own garden. As you can see, it's gotten pretty weedy. There's a lot of this guy going around:

Hairy galinsoga

I've been picking the beans for 3 days now. Since I planted them staggered, there's always more that are ripe.

Again, they're all kidney beans. I didn't want to get overwhelmed with planting too many varieties this year. I think I'll do it like this from now on.
As a preemptive strike, I decided to pull out all the carrots before they reseed themselves. First, I was dead-heading them but they just sprouted more flowers.

I just tossed the whole plant into the compost pile. They're not even growing edible roots, maybe because they're actually from last year. Oops.

Here is another section of the garden. I took this picture before I picked the beans in the center. In the background you can see the ayocote bean climbing up my makeshift trellis (salvaged from a mattress). I don't think this bean will get to fruit, once again. It's so slow to start and, being a Mexican variety, it probably needs a longer season. Next year I will be planting its cousin, the scarlet runner bean and see if I get better results.

I've dealt with the weed problem on this half of the garden where the tomatoes are. I used grass clippings as mulch and it seems to be doing nicely.

There are lots of tomatoes of about this size! They ask look like roma tomatoes. Makes sense since that's what we usually eat. Those plants that don't have fruit are loaded with flowers. I like the new trick I learned of pinching off the little side shoots that come from each leaf node. I believe it really helps the plant.

Tomatillo fruits are starting to appear as well! This plant also sprouted on its own in our compost bin.
Only one mystery remains: what kind of plant is this?

We think it's a cantaloupe. This one also sprouted in the compost bin. But there's another one too with a slightly different fruit.

I'm confident there will be enough time for these to mature.

That's all for my garden update. I'll be closing with a shot of a bumblebee foraging on some oregano flowers. If you have a garden and wish to participate in this challenge, here is the original post: Good luck and happy gardening!