The Garden is Good

Work has kept me away from home most of the week, but I slipped back this evening.  We've had lots of regular rain, and the garden is doing very well.

Tonight I picked shallots, yellow onions, garlic, fava beans, snow peas, and the first of the purple pole beans.  There are lots of cool things happening in the garden.

Summer squashes are huge and healthy.  Very small fruits have formed, and I suspect we will see the first squash in less than a week.

Tomatoes are coming along nicely.  Lots of small green ones on the vines, just waiting for the magic that turns them vibrant and delicious.

This big sunflower is a volunteer, growing near where we grew mammoth sunflowers and moulin rouge sunflowers last year.  This sunflower is a cross between the two.  It is huge, but colored much like the moulin rouge variety.  Very cool.

More volunteers, brown-eyed susans growing from seeds scattered last year by mature plants, wild and free.