Garden update

Since the gophers got most of my bean plants, I'm allowing the remaining to grow out so that I can collect seed from them. Meanwhile, my Sungolds are still giving me daily candy, my blackberry bush has gone totally gangbusters and supplied me with enough for snacking but not enough to make a pie or anything. My Odoriko's are producing as the Campbell 1943, the volunteer paste, the Blood Butcher and the Boxcar Willie. I have yet to see fruit on the Sheyenne and no one has developed ripened fruit except Sungold {sigh}

The volunteer pumpkin is a strange sherbert color; a pumpkin colored like a *very* light butternut squash. In checking websites, it just may be a a Baby Boo pumpkin, but the outcome has yet to be seen. And until then, my summer squash has brought me 4 edible fruits and my zucchini is the winner for production this year. I cannot tell you how that thrills me as the previous 3-4 years my zukes have been less than stellar producers. In fact, nearly all of my zuke fruits turn yellow, shrivel and die shortly after formation, even when the plant is doing beautifully. Go figure.

Tomato harvest

I've had several Sungolds since the week before 4th of July. Now I just need a way to contain the plant as I never did cage it... I wanted to do the pvc cages but in the end, really don't like the way they look. I need something a bit more creative - I'm thinking of using my old wooden ladder and then some string around the edges to try and reel it in a bit. We'll see...