In the garden

Because of the timing of my surgery four weeks ago, weeds got ahead of me in some areas of the garden.  

For instance, look at the grass and weeds between these two rows of peas.  It hasn't been a total loss; we had a big mess of creamed peas and new potatoes once, and I've frozen a couple of packages of peas.  

Also here, between the two rows of corn.  You can't tell by the picture, but I did hoe the area on the right of these rows this morning.  I hope to get the rest of the grass hoed before rain moves in; it's predicted to hit around noon, and we may get an inch or two.  If it rains and I don't get these rows hoed, those grassy weeds will double in size overnight.  

I had been home from the hospital about two days when we received the dozen sweet potato plants I had ordered in April, so Cliff got stuck with the job of setting them out.  They seem to be doing well, but we won't know how they fare until this fall when frost threatens.  

Little by little, I'm getting the straw mulch on the tomatoes.  

The Asiatic lilies are showing off; the hibiscus and day lilies will soon have their time to bloom.  

Coneflowers will do their thing all summer.  They are such a simple, undemanding posie.  
We're getting plenty of cabbage from the garden, and it won't be long until there are enough zucchini to do something with.