Daffodil Lane

The carrots and peppers are growing right along:

The cucumbers and Big Mama lima beans have decided to grow straight up in the air! They are taller than me now. And for the record I'm five feet nine and a half inches tall.

The cucumber vines have also moved over onto the teepee next to them, but that's ok...The chick peas didn't do anything anyway so it's not like they need it for support.

The tomatoes are also taller than me now and are covered in tomatoes! I think I may just get to can some this year yet!!

The zucchini is also growing right along. It is FULL of baby zucchini! I can't wait until the next batch comes in. I'm going to make some zucchini bread, oh and some zucchini cake!

And here is the one lonely pea that Alexis hasn't eaten. She loves to eat pea pods! I'm going to plant a fall pea crop in August and I'm going to make sure to plant more that she can eat so I can freeze some! She just loves them!

The cherry tomato on the deck is also full of tomatoes. They are starting to turn just the slightest shade of red, though it isn't evident in the picture below.

The mystery tomato is also doing well. It is has several small tomatoes. And I think we can safely rule out cherry or grape tomatoes at this point. They also are not Roma or Paste tomatoes because they aren't oval shaped. I'm pretty sure we've got a larger variety on our hands, maybe Better Boy, or Early Girl? Now it will be interesting to see if they end up being red, orange or yellow! I'm betting they are red given they had more red varieties than the other two colors, but I guess time will tell.

A few weeks ago I noticed a flower growing in the deck box with my spinach. I knew it wasn't a weed because of it's leaf structure, but I wasn't sure what it was. It wasn't like anything I had planted so I decided to wait and see what happened. It turned out to be some of my beloved purple with white stripes petunias from last year that had replanted themselves! I was thrilled! I had forgotten their leaf structure was different than most petunias! I couldn't find them at the store this year and I just LOVE these guys! Sometimes hybrid petunias like this grow back weird colors instead of in their striped glory from the first year, so I was especially pleased to see they came back striped!

The spearmint and nasturtium are doing very nicely and seem to get along well together.

And just because it's pretty here is the Argyranthemum in the sunlight. And before I downsized the picture to put it on the blog, you could see a bug on one of the blossoms, though it's not as evident here. They're blooms are so pretty!

So that's it for today! I hope you gardeners out there are having luck with your own! :o)