June 18

I haven't been good about posting, but there also hasn't been much going on in the garden.  The zucchini plant has been producing reliably, but everything else is still immature.  I am watching the one large bell pepper on my pepper plant, waiting for it to turn red.  Same with the tomatoes.

I did have one casualty.  I noticed that one of my two zucchini plants was looking a little wilted.  I touched it, and it fell over, a victim of a gopher.  Happily, the other zucchini plant has not been touched, but I was annoyed, because the one that was murdered was just starting to produce fruit.

My volunteer tomato plant appears to be a cherry variety.  Time will tell if they are any good!  The only cherry tomatoes I planted last year were hybrids.  I finally did find an heirloom cherry tomato, but too late to plant this year.

My rhubarb plant is going gangbusters.  I need to figure out what to make with it!  The only thing I know to use rhubarb for is pies and green juice!

The potatoes are also doing well.  No idea if I have any potatoes under there, with stealth gophers in the garden, but I am hopeful.

This is as far as the turmeric had come, prior to somebody (I think a bird) ate all the leaves.  It is now a little stick again, but I put a cage over it, and I am hoping it comes back.










The cantaloupe is finally starting to take off!

As is the grapevine!

And yet another volunteer tomato plant has appeared.  It isn't getting as much water as the others, but it seems to be holding its own.  It started much later in the season than the others, so it is much smaller.

And in the world of volunteers, my "wild" spearmint is also doing well.  I had some peppermint out there as well, but I think the spearmint choked it out.