Wednesday, July 22, 2020

More Baby Tomatoes


Auria





Hungarian Heart



Principe Borghese




Mystery tomato - this was labeled as "Wentzell", but I can tell by the leaves that it isn't.






Sunday, July 19, 2020

Our Suppertime Visitor


   Around 6pm this evening, we were in the living room watching a show and having supper when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye.  Glancing out the living room window, I did a double take upon spotting this little visitor in the garden.








   A moment after this picture was taking, our visitor started munching on the sunflower.  There are a few other sunflowers in the garden plots and raised beds, but they are only about 2 inches tall.




   I opened the door as slowly and as quietly as I could to get another picture, but this spooked our visitor.  She turned left at the end of the driveway and headed toward the shallow ravine a street up that leads out of town.  Hopefully, she makes it safely home following her adventure in town.






Saturday, July 18, 2020

Baby Tomatoes and Hurtin' Peas

   
   Most of the tomato plants are still in the flowering stage. Of the 14 varieties planted, only 7 have little tomatoes on them at this point.  (Click on pictures to enlarge.)

Work Release Paste






Bellestar






Black Sea Man





Jewish



Candy Sweet Icicle



Cream Sausage




Cole (planted at R's family's farm - photo to come)


   The pea patch is in sad shape.  Most of the plants have turned yellow and stopped growing following the week of rain earlier this month.  It is tempting to pull everything up, but I will give it a while longer to see if the peas bounce back. 












Tuesday, July 14, 2020

And The Winner is...


A-ha!  Finally, the first tomato!  Work Release Paste never disappoints.




Bachelor Button




One of the volunteer tomato plants that came up in the South garden.




The garlic patch, looking a little yellow after all the rain.




Rubenza Cosmos, just starting to bloom.



"Wassat?!"



Gaspe Flint Corn







Chillin'...



Zucchini plants




If you squint, you'll see two poor, stunted little Anaheim pepper plants in the foreground. 



   
Two White Scallop squash plants.  Even smaller than the zucchini plants.  Yeesh.




Springtime Cassis pansies and Sweet Alyssum.






Saturday, July 11, 2020

Big, Hairy Visitor


   At some point Thursday night, a moose dropped by.  It is unusual for them to come into town this time of year.  Usually, we see them in the winter and early Spring.  This one sampled some leaves from two of the trees in the front yard.  I discovered this morning that he also enjoyed one of the cabbage plants near the edge of the south garden!

   I should have put a ruler down beside the print for the picture.  The print is the size of a large horse's hoof.