A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Actually, a hard rain did fall. Last night, for about twenty minutes tops. The dinky little powerful storm managed to fell a pepper plant, shown above, and ...


... totally beat up on the poor squash plants, breaking limbs and hammering the leaves and just generally making puddles and wetness for the leaves to lie in and rot.


In addition, the rain totally tore apart the tomato supports, making the plants into an ever bigger and more tangled mess than they were already becoming.


On the bright side, we've still got a ton of blueberries to pick and eat, and they're on the opposite side of the yard, so we don't have to look at the devastation in the garden proper.


And also on the bright side, even though the cucumber plants are totally kicking the bucket (see last weeks story of doom of gloom), we're still getting good looking cukes.


The Beefsteak Tomatoes are going to be edible soon ...


... and so are the Brandywines.



The basil keeps on keepin' on, no matter how much we cut and use for pesto. I think this adds credence to the realization that we probably only need 6 basil plants next year, instead of twelve.


The squash plants are getting the better of us, and will soon overpower us and take over the household. We can't keep up and they keep getting too large. We should be picking them when they're 7 or 8 inches, I think, but they've been getting to 10 or 12 or more. We made the most of it, though, by slicing a couple of the big guys and grilling them on our brand new $40 grill.


The Red Knights are still green, but have the perfect shape.


... and certainly look better than this Green Bell plant that seems to have died of mysterious causes. I don't think it's only because we left that one pepper on the plant so long that it turned red.


Super Chili #1, however, is turning all kinds of red -- way inside there -- and that's a good thing.


See?


Another view of the decimated tomato supports, and the garden beyond.


The view from the other front corner, over the squash plants and beyond. Yes, we've been lax with our weed patrol. We'll get on that again soon.