Here's a lot of pictures from the past couple weeks of my non-blogging life.
If only this pumpkin would last to October.
Cucumbers are coming along.
Cantaloupe? Possibly honey dew melon. (These compost vines are mysterious.)
Mating squash bugs.
Okra.
Wheelbarrows make great homes for black widow spiders.
While we were in New York, my brother looked after the garden. This is the zucchini I found when we got back measured against two pumpkins.
Giant zucchini next to our cat.
And next to our other cat.
There were two of these, by the way.
18 inches. That's a foot and a half long vegetable.
Also, the war continues.
These are squash bug hatchlings. Now they're dead.
They also lay eggs on tomatoes. Tricky, tricky.
Quite tricky.
Even along the stems sometimes. TRICKY.
And on a cantaloupe (honey dew?) leaf. It was gross clearing all these off.
To recover, I washed my stuffed tiger, Bradley.
Having fun in the washing machine.
This is a tomato branch, stripped of leaves. A sure sign of a tomato horn worm invasion.
Epically camouflaged. Note the horn.
This horn worm has been parasitized by a wasp. Gotta say, if I ate caterpillars, these would be probably the biggest, juiciest caterpillars around.
Instead, I eat pumpkins.
Baked!
After like an hour at 350 degrees, you can just stick a fork in.
Pumpkin is actually delicious. For some reason, it never occurred to me to eat them.
They're extra delicious in pie form.
Baking is messy.
Or maybe I'm just a messy baker.
This is what a cooked vine borer looks like. (There was a hole at the top, so I was expecting this. As in, I hunted it out and composted the whole bit surrounding it. It didn't go into the pie.)
Though if it had, no one would have ever known.
Above: Yum!
Below: We shaved our cat!
Spaghetti squash.
Crazy grape tomatoes.
Cucumber.
Rocky's huge!
Lil Mac is holding up, like, four tomato plants, but he's doing alright too.
Zucchini. It's got some kind of leaf mildew, so I trimmed back a bunch of the leaves that were bad off.
Baby cucumber!
Our partially shaved cat.
The beer squash. It turns out they're zucchini plants.
For some reason, they're not looking so hot. Not sure what's up. More research may be necessary.
These tomatoes went from almost ripe to rotten in, like, a day. Sad...
Wild pumpkin vines.
Okra blossoms will steal your soul.
YOUR SOUL.
Actually, they're quite beautiful, and bugs don't seem to be super interested in them, which is great.
We had a week of rainy days and I slacked in my squash bug killing. These mostly eaten leaves are, unfortunately, the result of that.
Happy tomato party.
Severe leaf mildew.
Note to self: when white, powdery spots appear on squash leaves, "Ah, that's probably normal" is not the appropriate response.
Above: Mildew.
Below: Healthy plant.
Cantaloupe?
Cantaloupe???
Cantaloupe!
Single serving size.
Morning glories.
Giant tomato horn worm. Two and a half inches long.
These guys are actually pretty cute. For big-as-my-finger caterpillars that strip tomato plants' leaves like nobody's business. You know.
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| Frankenstein tomato |
Ha, I can attach captions straight onto pictures. Go figure.
Anyways, it's been a good couple of weeks. Time to sign off and make some dinner.
