We had a beautiful unusually cool weekend and I took advantage of it to spend much of Saturday working in the garden. Here my pole beans are blooming.
The cucumbers are starting to climb the fence support and are blooming profusely.
Here a little cucumber is forming at the base of a blossom.
Green peppers are starting to form on my pepper plants.
My row of eggplants is growing bushy. This is one plant that I don't grow so much to harvest the fruit -- I rarely pick an eggplant -- as I do just to watch it grow in the garden. I like the way the plants look -- the large fuzzy leaves, the purple flowers and the large purple fruit.
The first planting of sweet corn is nearing tassel stage.
Many of the plants in my tomato patch are reaching the tops of their cages.
There are lots of green tomatoes on the plants, and I picked several ripe cherry tomatoes this week.
The first of many (too many) zucchini is starting to form on this plant.
The patch that I have devoted to ornament gourds is starting to fill in as the vines start to ramble.
This golden delicious apple tree is loaded down with fruit, though the raccoons are trying to fix that problem.
There are still a lot of plums on this plum tree. I have never had a significant crop of these so I'm not sure when they ripen.
I watched these two white tail deer fawns frolicking in the front yard on Saturday morning. One of them is caught in mid-frolic.
These Norton grapes -- an American wine grape -- are coming along. I had to spray again for Japanese beetles as they were starting to become a nuisance again.
These Concord grapes -- the American all-purpose grape -- are coming along as well, though they don't seem to be fruiting as prolifically as some of the Norton vines.
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