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Bookhenge: So true!
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Bookhenge: What's that sign on the blueberry house?
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Bookhenge: Memories . . .
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Bookhenge: Long, straight trombone squash -- would this one be our candidate for "Best Winter Squash"???
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Bookhenge: Would we enter our papaya tree in the "Most Unusal Edible Vegetable" category???
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Bookhenge: How about a Sugar Kiss cantaloupe?
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Bookhenge: Or a bittler melon???
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Bookhenge: And who knows what unusually-shaped sweet potatoes we might find on our buried-treasure hunt . . .
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Bookhenge: Now that a beautiful plate of Cherokee Purple tomatoes! (Thanks to Brenda for the photo)
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Bookhenge: Cherokee Purples from the two plants in Beds 9A & B
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Bookhenge: At Logan's for Plant-A-Row for the Hungry donation
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Bookhenge: Now that's a tray of tomatoes
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Bookhenge: Worthy of a stilllife ;-)
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Bookhenge: 15.59 pounds!!! That brings total for those two tomato plants up to 21 pounds!!!
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Bookhenge: Official record
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Bookhenge: Make that 8,401.93!!!
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Bookhenge: Find the melon!
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Bookhenge: Bold melon
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Bookhenge: Uh-oh! Why are the stripes lime green???
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Bookhenge: Oh, no! Melon has rotted!!!
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Bookhenge: Checking all the melons out using the three clues --
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Bookhenge: Dry tendril indicates melon is ready!!!
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Bookhenge: Underbelly splotch has turned creamy or yellowish . . .
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Bookhenge: Thump -- hollow sound
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Bookhenge: Three melons passed the test and are ready for trip to Logan's for donation!
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Bookhenge: Another uh-oh! What's that on watermelon vine???
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Bookhenge: Same spots on watermelon vines planted in the parking lot island nearest the garden!
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Bookhenge: Pink impatiens are pretty with purple perilla -- perilla is an Asiatic crop of the mint family that has a minty, licorice, nutty flavor. Did I mention one of the best volunteers we have?;-)
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Bookhenge: An eggplant begins . . .
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Bookhenge: A little bigger ...