Before and After in the garden

Female blossom



Lemon squash



Little baby peppers


Emerald Giant Peppers



First little Dib Daub cucumber

All from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Next year: plant everything earlier, like months earlier. I was sitting around this year, waiting for the last frost that never was. Now I'm fondling fetal cucumbers while everyone else is drowning in them. Oh to have enough food to share, or preserve, or even to make a decent meal with.

Potato Harvest

About 2 lb of Red LaSoda potatoes, grown from about 2 lb of seed potatoes. Here's too breaking even, and trying again next year!

Around the garden

I had this ladder sitting around (picked up from the street on bulky trash day) and found myself in need of support for some beans that seemed to be growing about a foot a day. Done!




I swear I only planted basil seeds from one seed packet in this planter. Somehow I have three different varieties of basil (including purple) and a cucumber, seen here making a break for it off of the deck.




Cucumber tendrils.