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Sunny, breezy, cool day today. I wish I were a cucumber beetle so I could live in the dappled sunlight under the pumpkin vines.
Here you can see about 1/2 of the garden-- cukes, tomatoes, beets, chard, basil, sunflowers, winter squash, and assorted weeds...
The delicata squash is really spreading, and seems to be the only curcubit that the cucumber beetles aren't interested in. Thank goodness.
Baby delicata. There are at least 4 or 5 fruits, probably more hiding out under the leaves.
I finally got a yellow squash, and here's the next one. Summer squash did not grow well for me this year. I like the lines in this photo. Also, the delicata squash in the background (cheeky squash!)
Something is eating my beets. I wonder if this "something" is also eating them as tiny sprouts, making me think my germination rate is incredibly low. I need a tiny infrared wildlife camera.
Cute overload! Broccolis are getting bigger...
...as are the lettuce.
Purple carrots. James recently accused me of growing novelty varieties of otherwise normal vegetables. But what would be the point of growing things you could get at the store? I'd like to breed a pumpkin that's dark purple on the bottom, green at the top, with orange freckles all over.
Sunflowers (~7 feet tall now) and the local pollenators hard at work. Wait, ORANGE sunflowers? Has the world gone mad?
Here's today's haul, waiting in my office to get lugged home at the end of the day. The red tomatoes, Ramapo and Cosmonaut Volkov, are really really tasty, but still seem to be suffering from the verticillium wilt. ARG.