Signs of Summer

[affreca]

Lawnchair is installing the window AC in the bedroom. While we have a nice suburban AC unit that cools the whole house, we find it economical to have a separate AC unit for just the bedroom. I'm better at putting up with 90 when I'm awake then 75 when I'm trying to sleep. And the bedroom is usually the warmest part of the house (being the highest).

We harvested our first cauliflower today. Cabbage moths have found our garden, so shading the cauliflower with its own leaves was not completely effective. But tasty because it was home grown. I also ate a half dozen strawberries, a handful of peas and some mulberries (though some bright individual built his compost bins under my mulberry tree, making harvesting hard).

Squash plants took off while I was gone. They all had a few leaves when I left, but now they all 8+, and the leaves are as large as my head. I'm not sure we left them enough room. The cucumbers are similar. One of the eggplants has bloomed, and the flower is very pretty. Mint is trying to escape the pots. The tomato and pepper plants are still small, but there a number of green tomatoes on the early girls and romas. Deer didn't kill the apple trees, they're both heavily leafed. The peach tree has grown a twig from the bottom which is taller than the original stick part. I hope it is coming from above the graft.

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[verminiusrex.livejournal.com]

I have gotten three of the 8 ball summer squash (round green) so far, and the others are flowering but not producing fruits yet. And I have several tomatoes forming. Best of all, some of my cucumbers are nearly tall enough to start climbing their trellis!

On the down side, damned rabbits chewed up each and every sunflower I planted.