Twins!

Never grown squash before so don't know if it's normal or not - but I got conjoined twins!  Also 2 types of zucchini - black beauty is the smaller one on left & cocozelle the striped one.  

Here's Brenda Lee - I replanted this one as it got hit so hard with the fungus.  I planted 48 seeds total & as you can see, unlike last time, not many have come up.... BUT look closer & you can see someone has been rooting around in there - suspect they didn't want to wait for more beans & just ate what they found.  Pooh!

Here are some comparison pics of Leo so you can see how the cucumbers are loving the netting.  No cukes developing yet tho.

Leo 5/4/11

Leo 4/17/11

Meg - the spaghetti squash isn't looking quite as vigorous, but steadily growing - no fruit here either, nor any pumpkins.

Spaghetti Squash 5/4/11

Spag. Squash 4/22 - more leaves, shorter tho

Pumpkin 5/4/11

Sanford - look at those beans grow.  The ones growing up the strings were least hit by the fungus, but not producing yet.  The ones on the left of the pic were hit harder by the fungus but we're starting to see some beans there.

Sanford 5/4/11

This & That

My butterfly bush is blooming.  That makes me happy.  I really like purple (bet you could tell huh?), so this is one of my favorite flowers.

Butterfly bush

The beans in Brenda Lee that I replanted 9 days ago are popping up nicely.

Brenda Lee beans

Today I picked our first squash.  Looks nice huh?  Weighed it right at 1 pound.  The tomatoes were all from Kate - hehehehe we got them - not the Mockingbird.

Squash from Rick - tomatoes from Kate

Starting a New Bed

Looks GREAT!  4/3/11 This is Brenda Lee

4/15/11 - WHAT!?  Got a fungus!  so... replant

As you can see from the photos I got a real bad fungus in the pole beans.  The leaves just fell off!  As I said this blog is about my learning.  Anywho so I ripped all those plants out & put in new ones.

This is just the bed & soil

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Here you can see the sectioning off & that circle in there is my drip line

Now I've planted & put back the bamboo teepee

I put in Blue Lake & Romano pole beans.  Also my sage & Roman Chamomile I had planted there were not very happy, so as long as I was going to re-do the beans I might as well do those too.  So I moved the sage to the herb garden containers & put the chamomile in another bed.

I have planted a LOT of cucumber plants.  Last year we just didn't have enough for the two of us.  So, in typical Cindi fashion, I probably planted waaay too many this year.  That's ok, we like pickles.  Uhhh I don't know how to make pickles.  No problem, plenty of time.

Leo - see his cucumbers - easiest to see on right side

 
As you can see the plants are barely 6" high.  I have access to the worlds greatest library.  So I got a few pickling how to books & now I have a plan.  Of course reading all those recipes let me know right away that I don't have enough dill plants!  So I replaced the sage & chamomile with 4 dill plants.  It takes 20 days before you even see if the seeds germinated....  Oh well, next year I'll know so much more & get this timing down better.

Dinner salad tonight! This is getting towards the end of the lettuce I planted in December.  But still good.

& the first of the year tomatoes...

Please don't worry about the goodness of our garden - we have our very own inspector.  This is Cleco.  She LOVES to sniff & sometimes eat what we bring in.  That's chives she's actually chewing on there & yes, it's one of her favorite foods - go figure!  She will start meowing LOUDLY the minute I bring in anything until I let her smell it.  And if perhaps she is napping when I bring in things & have washed them, that's not good & hardly is worth her time.

Cleco