Peas. Mesclun, Mache; Apricot

All in soil, today. Snap peas in the west half of the window garden; snow peas in the other half. Mache is in the green pot next to the greenhouse, and to its right mesclun in the red pot.
The apricot tree is in blossom:

Fava beans

Today I planted fava beans in the two largest containers in the greenhouse.

Bok Choy, Chard, Basil planted

A beautiful day today, just right for starting some crops. Done.

Long Time

Today I grafted a scion (name forgotten) onto my volunteer apple tree. I had already grafted a scion of the same variety onto a branch. If it takes, the whole tree will be this variety. An L tree. Clear, right? Still a bit off, like my tree.

Problems and solutions. We carry on.

The deer did it again. He destroyed some plants I had in containers.

These pots had healthy plants growing until the beast attacked. I feel worst about the blueberry bush (leftmost), now mawled, and also grumble about the tomato plants that were in the other three pots. I moved some containers to the deck. And encouraged the dog to spend the night out in the back yard.

We have had strong monsoons for a couple of weeks, and the hail that has fallen a few times has done its damage, too. The squash leaves are particularly affected. Nevertheless, there is good growth there.

Butternut, delicata, and yellow squash (left to right--not to scale).

I have been digging a fairly large hole to transplant my Fuji apple into, but the terrain does not drain at all. It hasn't rained in three days, but this morning the hole looked like this:

there are 6 inches of water here--not good for tree roots.

In the greenhouse two of my tomato plants are dying. The base of their stalks has shriveled and turned brown. I'll have to figure out what this is. The tops, of course, are wilting away.

And so life goes on at the micro farm. Some setbacks, some challenges, some remedies, some successes. Just like the rest of life.

Update

Today is my mother's 115th birthday--she left this world 30 years ago, but I still stroll with her in my garden, as I did this morning, checking things out. I had neglected my garden most of June, but then on the 21th, I got back to work. The beans I had planted had been overrun by the squash that grows in my compost. I uprooted the squash, and transplanted several tomatoes, also volunteer. As of yesterday I have harvested 200 grams of fruit, and today I will make that crop a part of our evening meal. This is what the wagon garden look like today:

A survey of the greenhouses revealed spent favas, a volunteer bok choi and a couple of tomatoes (on one of last year's plants--still growing and producing, btw). This is what I got:

 

The dry favas will be next spring's seeds; the fresh ones have been eaten, as have the bok choi, the baby tomatoes, and the squash flower.
I have enough other squash in the penitentiary to harvest what I need:

Back from my neglect I found some sprouting yellow potatoes in the cupboard, so I prepared a patch, including an anti-deer wire above the patch, and look what's happening:

I also found that my carrots are going to seed (I learned that it takes two seasons to get there), and I am waiting to harvest the seeds as soon as they are ready:

And so I have lots to do and enjoy doing... 

Petunias

These bədúniz wintered in the greenhouse, aided only by an occasional squirt of water. They are beautiful!