July 11th, 2025

Hot pepper plants growing inside green wire cages in a raised bed

Here you can see some mid-summer progress on the hot pepper raised bed. Nothing fruiting at this point but there is jalapeño plant, a serrano plant, a tabasco plant, and an orange habanero one as well. They did quite well this year thanks to not being shaded into obscurity by cucumbers.

A crowded raised bed of tomato plants on trellises, with a few sunflowers

This is the (very messy) raised bed with four types of tomatoes and a few sunflowers. The sunflowers were supposed to occupy the entire interior of the bed but only the ones on the outskirts actually grew. The tomatoes did well once I cleaned them up, I just didn't have a lot of time unfortunately because at this point of the year I was working a new full-time job along with several side projects.