What I came home to find in the garden

Since we have been out of AZ for the past week and a half, it has gotten CRAZY hot. Welcome summer. Not that I want to welcome summer.

This morning, I went out to see whats going on in the garden and found some good surprises and bad surprises. 

What I lost:

• most of my herbs. i think only the mint, basil, and maybe oregano and parsley made it. the oregano and parsley hanging out by a thread.
  
• pumpkins (really dont want to break this to Jaden)
• peas
• marigolds by the tomato plants
  
• radishes
  
• all my flowers in pots. 
  

What I found doing super well:

• weeds. UGH!
  
• lettuce (which shocked me because lettuce isnt fond of heat)
  
• carrots (another shocker)
  
• cucumbers are blooming like wild
  
• green beans
  
• a new little circle pepper (not sure why they always grow in a ring like that when it was supposed to be jalepeno)
  
• and lots of new tomatoes with the old ones getting bigger
  

everything else is so-so.

We planted 4 different types of sunflowers which are blooming now and have gotten to be as tall as me or taller. I am going to  even have to stake some because they wanted to bloom before their stalks were sturdy enough.

The first type we planted was the one I took a picture of here...a standard sunflower

The second is a giant sunflower, which are what we grew last year.

These are the autumn bouquet Sunflower...all different colors on one stalk

And finally is the Vanilla Ice Sunflower:

So nice to look out our two windows and see these "bouquets" of cheery happy sunflowers!