June 2011 Archives

The cucumbers have arrived and the tomatoes are on their way. ^_^

Here's the first cucumber still on the vine:

... and off the vine:

This morning I looked out the window and noticed that one of the cucumber vines is being unruly - it had detached itself from the trellis.  I gotta get it back in line when I get home.

Here's a long view of the cucumbers and their neighboring tomatoes and peppers.

There are already little lollipop tomatoes on the way.


The other tomatoes and peppers are growing away, too.

The zucchini has been blooming, but unfortunately they're only producing male flowers so far - no fruit yet. Poo. :-/

But I have a volunteer squash plant!  It's growing on the outside of the garden bed pictured above.

This is an argument for not mowing the grass so often - you never know what is going to sprout! :P

And the potatoes are still hanging in there.  I guess it might be time to dig them after I get home from the 4th of July weekend. Hmm ...

(yeah, they're in there amongst all the weeds! :P)

There's something else interesting in my yard that I didn't plant other than the squash plant.  I think I have varigated wild grapevines growing in my yard.

My plant identification skills aren't so great beyond flowers, herbs, and veggies, so I'm really not sure if this is a grapevine or some other vine.  Here's a picture of another one.


Since I was near them taking pictures of the strange "grapevines," here are my hydrangeas. I love hydrangeas. ^_^

The deer ate my edamame despite the chili powder I sprinkled on the plants! $%@ deer! *grr*  They chewed all the leaves off and there's nothing left but little 4" stalks. *sigh*  If I manage to get a fence put up around the raised bed, I wonder if the edamame will grow back?

At any rate, potato plants appear to not be a preferred deer food.

And because they're cool-looking, here's a close-up of a potato blossom: