Fruits

Even though the deer ate half the tomatoes, a lot of beans, all 8 pea plants, some squash, and lots of misc. flowers, AND there's a drought, I have witnessed some fruits of our labor!

I saw little cucumbers yesterday, and we've been eating the cherry tomatoes little by little as they ripen. And the beans are plentiful, if not densely foliated. These will be ripe soon, probably enough to share and put up a bag for the winter. And one pea plant that survived the deer has one flower! Maybe we'll get a pea pod yet. The elberta girl tomatoes are getting bigger, too, as are the sunflowers by the house. And the inedible pintos I threw from the back door onto the ground have grown to about a foot already. And there's a great big green striped pumpkin (other squash?? Hard to tell) in the back. Woo hoo! The heat and sun are working well on the garden, as long as I water without reservation. Otherwise, it's nothing but brown crunchy hot ground and trees so dry they're losing leaves already.

Now if I could just get the zucchini to fruit...