Summer Scrambles (distinct and different from Spring Scrambles)

It's summer! I am trying to fight the weird defiance of being seen that keeps me from documenting things. Am I winning? Hard to say. Some part of my brain was a wild rabbit once I think or a small brown bird in the hedges. 

A better gardener than I mapped off months of summer planting as 'take a nap' and yet here I am!! Germinating more green beans! Incorrigible! 

Why I am germinating more green beans: I am joining forces with a friend who could use some help with her garden plot and she currently has only sunflowers growing. I'm helping her mulch but yk she also needs things there. to grow. Ok also it's fun. They're so happy to be awake. 

Tomatoes: They are doing well. Lining up lots of little green bobbles in a row. Some leaf miner this year, I think I took too long watching and curious and so it spread farther than I would've liked. I trimmed a bunch of the affected leaves last night (7/5) and tried to peel them apart on that paper thin layer so I could see the actual beast but no luck. I am going to look up some pictures online and in my books to get a better idea about what a leaf miner actually IS and where it comes from. 

The green beans are now at my home garden as well. There are a lot, they are upset about the heat, there you go. Even with dubious irrigation and blazing afternoon sun at the cc garden, I only lost on, maybe two. The snake melon, which were already pretty old and not very vigorous, did not fare as well. But I got a mystery cucurbit (probably a cucumber) and it's doing well?? cross my fingers?? OH and I found some bamboo poles for free and made a nice little structure for them:)

Green onions are blooming. I am using a little party favor bag around the flower to try and collect seeds. I got some more from the market to put in the cc garden to up the number of plant famblies in the plot. 

Native plants:

The Clarkia were FANTASTIC. wonderful beautiful wildflowers. They are on their last legs but better than any fireworks. I am terribly impatiently waiting for their seed pods to be dry enough to collect. Not yet... 

Narrow leaf milkweed is happy and growing, and I am trying to keep it from being totally eaten by monarchs. We do have a larger non-native milkweed that I am slowly trying to phase out, which is coming really in handy right now. 

Three mallows - count em - Three! Two in tiny little pots. I may move them soon. One in the ground. It's leaves are small but it is determined on making more and more of them. I water it weekly with the hose. It has three tall stalks right now. 

I transplanted the Bladderpod! It is in a small pot and quietly doing its thing! I'm taking care not to touch any roots on the native plants I transplant because they seem realllly sensitive to that. Some wins some losses. 

Speaking of losses, no luck transplanting baby oaks. They're just too delicate no matter how tough they look.

The buckwheat is happy. Pink blooms. Moths hide in it during the daytime. It gets water every other week from the hose.

One last silly thing: I made myself a slingshot. so I can send seed balls further over fences when it comes time in the fall.