First Mystery Revealed

It looks like the smaller of my mystery squash has revealed itself: petty pan! Not my favorite but I have to admire how persistant this rascal is!

Flowers in the Garden this Week

Squash curly thing and first Cucumber Flower

Yukon Gold Potato Flower and the first of many sunflowers

Here are some of the flowers growing in the garden this week. I am

amazed that the cucumber is actually flowering because it looks rather anemic to me. The tomatoes are also flowering and I am just so happy that these tomatoes are starting to thrive. I tied them up on stakes today - except for the cherry tomatoes because I ran out of stakes and will have to use cages.

Also, when my five year old saw that the sunflower had opened

he said, "Good. Now we will have golden finches!"

Tale of Three Beans

Above is a picture of my bean bed. On the right I planted Anasazi bush beans, in the middle I planted Dry Soup Tiger's Eye Bush Beans, and on the left I planted a green bush bean: Fagiolo Nano La Victoire. The Anasazi Indians used to live in places like southern Colorado, so theoretically, this bean is a native. The Tiger's Eye Bean is a beautiful heirloom from either Chile or Argentina. The Fagiolo Nano La Victoire is a french bush bean - although sold through an Italian seed company... Clearly, in this little plot, the native has out germinated and looks the most vigorous. Hmmm...

Back Yard Jungle

Left side of Yard and the Right Side of Yard

As you can see, my back yard, which was bindweed and dog-spotted grass last year, has developed in to a fine garden and suburban jungle!

Mystery Squash Growth!

My son and I marked where our mystery squash was this past Monday and then again today. Almost two feet in six days! It also started blooming this week. Still no sense on what it is...

Sunflowers Tower above Will

We had a couple of sunny days this week and the garden seemed to explode. The volunteer sunflowers are taller than my son. The mystery squash is vining onto the patio, much to the irritation of my husband. The peas are producing like mad: 60 this morning. I planted two rows of carrots this week - which of course, are not up yet. The edamames are struggling and the corn looks anemic. However, the garlic is thriving and has these cute little curly tips.

I bought some flowers for the garden - an impulse buy really. They look great around my peach tree (also a volunteer from many years ago.) I grew some forget me nots from seed this winter - along with some alyssum. It looks like a little bouquet at the bottom of the tree.