My green beans are proding enough to be worth cooking, and I’ve chosen a couple of plants to let go to seed. My watermelons have tiny baby melons on them, the largest is still just a bit smaller than a tennis ball. the strawberries are ripening again, and the raspberries are producing about 1/2 cup a day. My cucumbers have blossoms opening, and my zucchini has reached the top of the arbor!
Now the bad news. Sunday morning when I went out to the garden, I found a pile of vomit in one of the veggie beds. Using my (admittedly mediocre) tracking skills, I’d say some drunken jerk climbed over the back fence, peed on the maple tree, stomped around in my raspberries, then threw up in my garden because he couldn’t find his way out of the yard again (fenced on all sides). Fortunately the corner he chose was where the seedlings had died during the 3-week stint of no rain, and I hadn’t gotten around to replanting it. I cleaned it up as best i could, then sprinkled a few tobacco seeds there. No one in my family smokes, but it’s a good insecticide/antibacterial/antiparasitic, so after growing tobacco in that spot it’ll be safe to plant there next year. And, those tobacco seeds were given to me by an old Hopi fellow, who said his tribe had been cultivating that patch for centuries, so it’s kind of special, but that was 7 years ago so the seeds need refreshed.
Yuck! Do you live in the Madison area?