Summer in the vegetable garden

Trail of tears beans and Swamp hibiscus (hibiscus coccineus).

Bucket of beans...

Ghost peppers

Freshly mulched veggies...

Jerusalem artichokes in bloom

Decorative Kale

What do you do about those wild and woolly cherry tomato plants... determined to grow through the cage and all over the wheelbarrow path?

Tie/bale them up with baling twine...

Beauty berry caterpillar (Manduca rustica)

Indigo bunting feasting on seeds from the large native grasses.

Hummingbird

ruellia elegans

And finally a selection of pollinators.