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The July garden.

Foreground; Baker Creek's Sweet potatos Korean Gold and CaroGold. (The Carogold Tastes great. The Korean is good, but a lot drier than most US sweet potatoes.) Decided to go with sweet potatoes this Summer. They can handle the heat. (Tip. The vines run, but try to keep them from rooting everywhere they touch the ground. You want the energy to go into the potato, not all the vines and leaves. I will try to train them on raised trellises.) At the back. A wilty volunteer pumpkin...seeds were from Rouge Vif D'Etampes. Will see if they grow true to variety or have cross bred with something else. Fig trees in pots along the fence. I need to start putting organza bags over the figs.

Tomatoes suspended with paracord and clips (1 clip per plant....no stakes and and no more tearing rags for fasteners!) I only grew two indeterminate varieties this year, Black Krim and Sweet One hundred. Green tomatoes at the front. Its a bother reaching above your head to maintain and harvest, so I only have one 7 ft suspension trellis (at the back, or north side of the plantings.) Everything else is semi determinate that grows five to seven feet. I suspend the paracord from a 3/4" electrical conduit pipe tied to 2 metal fence posts with a tent peg next to the tomato plant. Its usable year to year.

More of the semi determinate types. Fore ground is Thorburns Terra Cotta. Good taste, beautiful orange green color but the flower ends are subject to a lot of folding and creasing. Not really possible to distinguish the different plants, but in the next row is Annanas Noire, a French variety which I think is about the best tasting tomato I have ever had. Old German; The white wire basket is protecting a 2 Lb tomato that was picked and is in the kitchen. The remaining row has Pineapple and Aunt Ruby's German Green. Both good tasting slicing tomatoes.

Just another view showing the arrangement of the suspenion trellis. Basil and Marigold has been interplanted between the Tomato plants. Everything is watered using soaker hoses.

Good night! Maybe some simple ideas people can use in their gardens!