View from roughly the East. Front: Left to right, peppers, peas and beans, tomatoes, eggplants and potatoes. The back row isn't really visable so I won't list the crops here.
View from the north. The aforementioned back row is to the right with corn in the foreground, squash behind it, broccoli and cauliflower behind that and spaces at the rear.
The short lived snow peas climbing up a section of chicken wire. Oh, by the way, it's now politically incorrect to call it chicken wire. The proper term is "Poultry fencing."Go figure.
A pumpkin flower
A squash bud
A young pumpkin
Looking from the west at the far south end. Growth is starting to get luxurious at this point. The tomatoes are at the far left with the beans growing up the trellis and the peppers to the right. In the foreground grows three different kinds of basil; Lime basil, Genovese basil and Sweet Italian basil.
I found this plant growing at the base of the bed where the peppers were planted. It came up all by itself, a "weed," but it was so striking and vigorous that I let it grow. I cut it down just before we went away on vacation lest it's roots damage the peppers. Later, another grew in the broccoli / cauliflower beds and as the plants in that spot had died, likely from root maggots, I let that one grow to maturity just to see how it developed. It became large and resplendent, blooming with beautiful flowers. After some research it turned out to be the notorious Jimson weed; aka Devil's trumpet, Loco weed. etc. It's a hallucinogenic and can be fatal if one eats the seeds. It sure is pretty though. I harvested all the seed pods and destroyed them to keep from having a bumper crop of hallucinogens next year.
I have never seen corn do this before and I grew up next to a farm and did a lot of roaming around in corn fields. It seems to be growing kernels on the stalk just below the tassel. Did I miss some buried nuclear waste when I was cultivating?
Yours truly and a large yellow squash. Two weeks later these healthy squash plants were looking pathetic as the vine borers had gotten in and were chewing their life away. Still, we got quite a few nice big squashes.
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