Much to update

These are Long Green Peppers. We don't eat many peppers but I do dry them to make a pepper seasoning that my bf likes to use on many things he cooks. Also shown is my first decent harvest - all picked last night. Most times I get one squash or one Sungella. Here I have 3 Benning Green summer squash, 2 Zephyr squash, numeroud Sungellas and one lonely Sausage tomato. There were actually 2 other small Sausage toms but the snails ate them hollow.

One of my experiments. I planted my cotton plants in the ground. Here is how they looked before that. They seem quite happy after the fact. On the left is three Mississippi Brown. On the right is from a seed that came in the MS Brown packet, but it was green so I kept it separate.

My giant summer squash - this is Bennings Green variety and apparently, I totally missed two of these behind the giant leaves it produces. This was bigger than my tomcats head and I placed a bottle cap on top of it for size comparison. We ate this one last night, and it was gooood. Sauteed lightly in a little butter with olive oil, sprinkled with bread crumbs and grated Monterey Jack cheese, a little salt & pepper to taste. YUM! :)

First bloom on my sugarsnap peas. They are just starting to trellis up the ladder as opposed to up themselves and falling over. I thought it would be easier to train them up, but they are stubborn and seem to want to grab anything BUT the ladder that I set up for them. Go figure.

My other experiment - this is my cutting from a blackberry bush near my work. I cut it, potted it, and let it go. It's done very well but I never expected it to bloom and produce for me. I know berries are supposed to come up on 2nd year canes and this is technically a 2nd year cane, but I figured the cutting would be using it's energy to re-establish itself instead of producing. This is a VERY pleasant surprise. :)

Yesterday I heard from someone I never thought I would hear from. Talk about a pleasant surprise.