The peas tumble 4 ya

The peas have many, many flowers on them this week. They've been looking really good, up until now ...

The plants outgrew the supports in a major way this past weekend, while we were away. Today, they toppled over, and have all but broken. It's hard to make it out in the photo, but that's them all bent over and such. We need to improve the support structure pretty darn quick before they the plants all snap off. I'm not quite sure yet of the best method, but I'm stewing over a few ideas.

The cucumber plants, by contrast, are still growing to fit into their new support structure. They seem pretty happy and we've got a bunch of small 1" baby cukes coming along.

The green peppers, like Joe Camel here, are almost to an edible size. They'll be finding their way into salads and onto skewers for grilling very soon.

A few chili peppers have gotten to about 4" long. Just waiting for some red.

The dill is flowering. We want to let them go to seed so that it all drops and reseeds itself and, if we're lucky, we get a second crop this year.

Squash is almost at an edible stage. The biggest, shown here, measures between three and four inches long, I'm guessing. Almost time to pick. We learned last year to pick them a little early, otherwise they have wicked growth spurts and turn into gigantic monster squash full of seeds before you realize it.

Another view of a different squash plant.

The onions are starting to bulb up. Exciting. Last year we didn't get any onions, so things are looking much better this time around.

Carrots continue to prosper.

We've used basil in a few recipes lately. The plants themselves seem to be growing slowly, but picking leaves every few days encourages new growth for sure.

Lettuce make some salads already, sheesh.

Tomato plants are getting large. The cherry is up front with three Romas, a Brandywine and a Cherokee Purple behind it.

One of the Roma Tomato plants has this bunch of flowers and a couple very very tiny tomatoes starting to form.

Cherokee Purple tomatoes have taken shape.

There's this one cluster of cherry tomatoes deep down inside what's going to be a giant plant.

New to the garden this week: Parsley. Give it a few days and it'll perk up.

We also added some mint.

The blueberry protection went up at the end of last weekend. Four posts with eye hooks in the end, and a length of cable stretching around from one to the other: Free (recycled from last year). Four 14' x 14' pieces of bird netting, zip-tied together: $28.00. Protecting your blueberries from hungry birds: Priceless.

The blueberries haven't changed color much from last week. They're still just barely getting a touch of pink.

Flowers in the Yard, Tangent One: Sundrops

I had snapped a couple photos of the flowers when suddenly hustle and bustle caught my eye. Ants are running crazy on these things, up, down, every which way. I'm not sure why the ants like the Sundrop flowers, but they do.

Flowers in the Yard, Tangent Two: I have no idea what these are called. They could be weeds, for all I know, but they're nice. And pink.