No, they're not vegetables!!!

The garden is going along fine--despite a nasty case of powdery mildew.  I have big plans for the autumn though, when we'll try Square Foot Gardening (more on that soon).  Until then we've turned our attention to other parts of the garden.  I had all of these lovely pots in clusters on the ground, which was admittedly quite cluttered.  So Gordon came up with a lovely solution.  Now the pots can be seen, decorate the ugly cement wall AND the ground space is opened up for our next project.  More on that soon too.  Until then, I am delighted with my pot wall. 

Today's bounty

This is what we took out of the garden today.  Gordon thinks we should make a three bean salad.  Squash is very happy--beans, not doing so good.

Pumpkin model

This is the season's newest pumpkin.  Oohlala!  Notice how round and orange it is.  So divine.  I grew it myself you know!  Soooo sexy.  MMMMM.

Hi we need haircuts!

Whazzat Gordon's bizzy up to?

So while I've been vegetabling, Gordon has been landscaping the dirt patch next to the front door.  It's looking splendid.

More garden mysteries

Ok, so this appears to be coming from the spaghetti squash vine, and it started out looking a lot like the other spaghetti squash.  But now it's looking like a pumpkin--sort of.  Did we plant another squash-type thing we forgot about?  Could it be a spaghetti pumpkin?  We've tried to follow the vines, but it's pretty difficult to tell which starts where.

That's a BIG Spaghetti Squash

I think this is supposed to turn yellow when it's ready...  But it's hard to say if it's yellow or not...  

Oh THAT's not suggestive

First cucumber today--although something isn't quite right with it.  I think it'll be ok on the inside, but I'm not sure what is crawling all over it and making it ugly...  Lucky I ordered the Sunset Western Gardening book yesterday.

Woop there it is!

Eggplant with miso sauce

The Mark Bittman book said that Japanese people traditionally boil the eggplant for this tasty dish.  Naoko says not so, but it was still quite tasty.  Next time I'll grill the eggplant and add a little tofu.  Poor Gordon.  

Ah HA!

Gordon's mom, Karen, solved the bean mystery.  They are yellow beans!  We ate them last night for dinner and they were sweet and delicious.  We also ate one of the radishes.  It was too spicy for me, but Gordon liked it.  Now we're down to one radish.  Karen says we can plant more.  Maybe I'll look for a milder variety.

OOOH Labels!

The labels for the plum preserves arrived today!  I'm so pleased with them I have to share--even though they were supposed to be a surprise for Christmas.  Now I want to order labels for everything.  I'm mobbin' tha niznext set wizzy be fo' tha pumpkin chutney we makes wit our lovely pumpkin.

The unvegetable garden

Gordon and I spent a couple of hours working in the rest of the Garden on Sunday.   It's looking quite lovely.  We're making big plans for the upper deck!