July 4th in the Garden

After a dry spell and a week of temperatures in the 90's, we received some much-needed rain so I decided to take a photo of one of our garden beds. This holds our cabbages, celery, Thai basil, and a few of our squashes and there are a few beans and tomatoes popping up in the bed.

and it was a welcome surprise to see that we have an eggplant already fruiting. 

I busied myself with staking all the eggplants and then walked over and looked at some red tomatoes.

Almost all of the tomatoes are in cages and look to be doing well this year. We have a few that popped up here and there so they are not large enough yet to need a cage.

We companion plant the tomatoes with the large leaves, Italian Basil and we grow Thai Basil in terracotta pots. It produces a beautiful flower and is a great attractor of bees.

Happy gardening on July 4th.