A Glorious Weekend

This past weekend was beautiful.  The highs were right at 80 degrees, and the weather was sunny or partly cloudy both days.  I spent nearly all of it outside. 

The garden got new seeds during the weekend.  We harvested the last of the spinach.  My sons helped pluck leaves off the stalks. Steamed and frozen it was 3 pounds of food.  Arugula and most of the sugar snap pea plants came out too.  They were done, and I  planted yellow snap beans, swiss chard, and parsnips in those open spots.

Here is the giant basket of spinach.  Tomatoes are ripening, slowly.  Almost every day, there's a few more that are ready to be picked.  The yellow grape "Ildi" tomatoes are my favorites so far.

 There were two radishes from my first seedbed that I'd let go to seed.  I pulled them up on Saturday and harvested the seed pods.  Below is one radish plant! 

It produced a massive quantity of seed pods.  They have a mild radish flavor, and add variety to salads.

One of the volunteer plants has produced fruit, and when I realized what it is, I laughed out loud.

We had some of these mini-pumpkins last year at Halloween-time.  I think William painted or decorated it.  Well, eventually it wound up the compost, which was spread over the garden in February.  A seed survived and germinated, and now I have white mini-pumpkins in the garden.