Above is today's harvest. I don't know if you'll be able to tell or not, but that is a 15 inch ruler that I put in with the vegetables to try to give a sense of the size of things.
This morning when I went to the garden to water and feed the plants. I discovered that the squash elves had decided to put some yellow squash and zucchini in the garden. They were all over the place and more are coming. So I harvested some of the bigger ones. When I got home, I called Mary and told her to be sure to pick some tomorrow when she waters. We are going to be having squash coming out our ears. Good thing Viola send me that zucchini cookbook!!!
You can see that I also harvested some tomatoes too. I don't think its been warm enough for the tomatoes to really take off. I hope that happens soon.
I jealous of the man that has the next lot. His eggplant plant is all chewed up by the infamous Colorado Potato Beetle and he has a fairly decent size eggplant on his. Our eggplant plants are growing nicely, but still no eggplants---just blossoms. The blossoms tend to fall off. I asked Mary to put some fencing around them in case we are knocking them off when we walk by or when we water. My only consolation is that my neighbor doesn't have any eggplants on her plant yet either. Maybe Mary and I still have a chance at getting some on our plants.
All in all the garden is doing well, other than the squash plants and the cantaloupe plants trying to take over the whole place. I was pleased at how well the first watermelon plant is doing---no blooms yet, but the plant is growing nicely. Even though the peppers are producing fruit they don't seem to be growing very tall. I guess it's time for more research on them.
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