A-squash-colypse

 The squash harvest began today with two zucchini where I thought there was only one (both a little larger than ideal, but neither one a baseball bat), and two perfectly sized baby yellow squash. 

There are two Lunchbox peppers close to ripe, or maybe already ripe. I'm not sure how big they get, and they're a bit on the small size. 

Oh, wait, I just looked them up, and I guess they're full size, but they need to stay on the plant a bit longer to turn whatever color they're supposed to end up: red, yellow or orange. https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/peppers/sweet-peppers/lunchbox-pepper-mix-organic-snack-pepper-seed-3515G.html

Although, the instructions say to pick the first few "promptly" to encourage more fruit set. And it looks like it takes about 3 weeks to go from green to the final color. So I probably won't have the patience to let the first two get to their final color, and I can claim it's for a reason other than impatience.

Squash summer

I still have hopes that this will be the summer of the squash, and not ALL of it will be summer squash. The sections of the garden that were submerged  yesterday aren't visibly wet, although the water probably isn't far from the surface.

I finally planted the lettuce-leaf basil (13 plants).

I thought the butternuts had drowned, but they seem to be alive, albeit perhaps on life support. We're not expecting any more heavy rain, just the occasional pop-up thunderstorm, for the next ten days, so they may still have a chance. I may plant some more seeds anyway, just in case, but we're bumping up against the deadline to have enough time for them to ripen before the first frost.


Here's the first squash (yellow) of the season, which should be ready for eating in the next week, followed by the first pepper I'm targeting for next week (I want to remove the first harvest while they're still small, so more will set), and a particularly curly garlic scape: