Hey, I know you guys have been totally missing my garden updates, right? Right?
It's a mixed bag this year, as predicted. The beans-along-the-fence are pretty much a total loss, between bugs, dry weather, and Paul's mistaken weedwhacking. The dead clematis has been resurrected and is actually looking pretty good (zombie clematis?). It's my goal to plant it this weekend.
The currant tomato is covered in tiny green beebees, and a few are finally turning red. Yow! It's amazing how potent those little guys are; the biggest ones are the size of blueberries, and have all the taste of a paste tomato crammed into a tee-tiny little package. All the other tomatoes are covered with hard green fruit; the tigerella is doing especially well, and even the reluctant Silvery Fir has a few. I'm looking forward to lots of stewed and dried tomatoes this winter!
The pumpkin is throwing huge numbers of boy flowers -- 5 to 7 per day. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any girl flowers for them to date. There was one, and I purposely hand-pollenated it, but it appears to have shrivelled and died. One nice surprise was its next-pot-neighbor, the moon-and-stars watermelon, which has one tiny, lime-sized melon on it. It is green and yellow and spotty and cute. Soon, I will make it a tiny pantyhose hammock to relax in.