Garden Update

I was so excited yesterday?one if my yellow peppers was ripe! Eagerly I picked it, rinsed it, and began to slice it. Much to my dismay, once it was sliced open I could see that it was rotten at the core. There was no part of it that could be salvaged?all of the seeds and inner membrane were blackened and starting to bold. What a disappointment! I'm still amazed to see bell peppers growing from a plant, so it was one of my most anticipated veggies. Luckily, anther one has started to turn yellow, so there is hope yet for a useable pepper!






My zucchini have yet to appear, which has me quite concerned, but my dipper gourds have a ton of little gourds starting?it should, that vine is very resolved to take over my yard and bird feeders and anything else potentially in reach. It has most beautiful white flowers, though, so I'll be planting it again, despite it's dogged determination for yard domination.




















And much to my amazement my cantaloupe, which does not like to be a container plant, has two little cantaloupes started.








Of course, my cucumbers are still trucking away, producing some of the oddest shaped cucumbers I've ever seen. And my jalepenos and banana peppers are gearing up for a second harvest. My little corn patch is doing shockingly well, and is hard at work on some little cobs. My peach tree is officially picked clean, but my apple tree shouldn't be long, although less prolific than it's peach neighbor.























My tomatoes have been a very pathetic lot this year. I have three varieties in containers, all of which some creature finds half of every tomato VERY tasty. Never mind the plants themselves, which look likeI've beenwatering them  with battery acid. And when I do gettomatoes,  they are the size of very large cherry tomatoes...They are all medium-large fruited varieties. At my, parents' cottage, though, my mom has managed to grow some beatiful, normal-sized fruit, despite her plants looking almost as bad as mine.