Garden Update

I’ve now picked 4 ripe Black Plum tomatoes.  While this isn’t tons, it is several weeks early.  And there are more turning colors.  So far though neither of the other varieties I planted this year are ripening  yet.

The garden isn’t as well grown as last year, BUT, we may have finally passed the worst of the monsoons this year (crossing fingers!) so hopefully we’ll see some more regular growth now.

Snow Leopard Melons, although you can’t see it in the photo this is the only melon so far to have an actual baby melon growing.  Though the others are all blooming away, so it shouldn’t be long.

 

Potatoes and corn.  Despite the fact that the tallest corn stalk is barely a foot tall several of them are trying to produce ears!  I guess we’ll see what I get……

 

Sugar Baby Watermelon

 

Honey Dew melon

 

Melon Pear plants.  There’s a fair bit of baby fruit there, maybe I”ll get some this year!

 

Nutmeg Melons

Overall everything looks good.

One weird thing though…..the lettuce had bolted, and one day this past week, I noticed that the tops of several of the tallest lettuce plants had been clearly munched.  I figured a deer, but nothing else had been chewed on….then I looked closer, and realized the middle of the lettuce was flattened, as if something had plopped down into the middle of it.

So then I thought that maybe a bunny had finally noticed the tasty stuff over his head (these stock tanks are 2ft tall) and hopped into the bed to munch…..but there was no bunny poop!

I decided that since it had all bolted anyways it was time to pull it all up and reseed.  In the process of pulling it all up, I found an empty, but fairly new, mouse nest!  The grass used to make it was still pretty green.  Looking at the top picture, at the top of the bed, right to the right of the tall green spike, it was under there!  So now I’m wondering if the flattening was the result of someone making a meal out of a mouse…..but that doesn’t explain the munched tops either.  So a mystery it remains!