Modern Art!!

Incident with Dog and Paint Can

Wouldja look at that!

Better than I expected, better than I dared to dream! Look at that butternut squash!

Of course, watering it like I did brought the rain two days early this week *blink, blink* and I'm seriously beginning to wonder just what is going on here... lol! Hey, this time I didn't even fertilize!

Something else really likes the rain....

Say hello to amaranth. You can see that it took a huge gulp of water and just, well, expanded! I wish I could get basil to grow like that! And no, I'm not going to pull the weeds; they're very nearly as nutritious as purslane and I've been wishing for years that I could have a chance to try them and see what they taste like. Now I have a chance!

True leaf time! First off, the punkins at the back of the purslane pot--and those droplets you see are rain; I snuck out between showers to get these pics.

The seedlings in the eggplant pot seem to be catching up with the seedlings in the pepper pot now. Maybe the difference is sunlight? The shade comes in gradually from south to north, and gets to the eggplant first.

Then we have this exciting lil development--a pepper blossom! Wooohooo!

Last but not least at ALL--check this out--new growth on the butternuts. Can you imagine? On the 7th, nearly dead, on the 8th, burgeoning new growth?! Like I said, beyond all my expectations!

I'll get back to art postings soon; I've been reading a lot lately while I wait for my wrists to settle back down. The Friends of the Library store had three issues of a magazine called Belle Armoire that I am enjoying right now; inspiration on every page.

Aaaaack....

When a person is sick, she can let the litterbox go for a couple days; tis nasty, but not a disaster.... but letting the garden go a couple days when it is in flower pots is a disaster. *sigh* I watered this morning--two gallons divided among the pots, and most of it into the butternut squash, which had completely wilted. The lettuce is dead--no biggie--but I am very sorry about the squash. It had buds already, the first male blooms, big as my thumbnail. I'll go out again this afternoon and see if it revived, or if the wilt is permanent.

In the meantime, my seedlings are up, yellow straightneck squash, Jack o'Lantern pumpkins (in a flowerpot, lol, I'm crazy) and bush green beans. I'll take pics this afternoon.