A drizzly, grey day today. This morning, I cleared the pea plants from the South garden. Soggy work, but it felt good to have it done.
The Lower Salmon River squash have done quite well, despite the summer we had. I harvested the first one today. It is a bit early, but I have read that this variety should be picked before the Fall rains (of the Pacific Northwest, where it originated) begin because they are prone to splitting. It has been nothing if not wet lately! The picture is a bland: a pale orange squash on a brown-striped dish cloth on an off-white floor under a fluorescent light. I still think it's cute. The colour will deepen to a warmer tan/orange once the squash has cured.
One of the Lemon queen sunflowers in the East garden was bent over, leaning against the fence. The heads are heavy with developing seeds and the ground is so wet that the roots aren't being held fast. I moved the sunflower so that it now lays on the grass rather that the fence (one never knows how neighbours will react to such things). The roots are still on the ground; maybe the seeds will continue to mature.
This sunflower is leaning and it doesn't even have a bloom yet!
Early Annie tomatoes - humble, but reliable! These are the first tomatoes to ripen for me this year. Scotia are a close second.
Dolloff beans (dry/pole beans, lima type). Still green. Hoping to get a few mature ones by the end of the season!
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