How does your garden grow?.....with green bells and red shells and cucs and beans in a row

July 13: Our beautiful garden

 July 14: Zucs still growing

zuc and cuc

cucs

 zuc male flowers

For some reason the zuc female flowers were not maturing and were turning brown and falling off before ever blossoming.

July 17 Our first cuc is almost an edible size

Tiny little cucs beneath their flowers

 Our tomatoes have certainly grown!

Look at our cute bell pepper.

And some really tiny ones beginning to form.

Our tomato plants still flowering wonderfully. The plant smells so good!

Zuc plants getting larger.

July 20

We harvested our cuc

Aug 5

After returning from our family reunion (and thanks to Katie and Kyle for watering our garden) we ate our first bell pepper with some garden tomatoes and garden lettuce (which was surprisingly less bitter than it was a couple weeks ago--it has cooled down a bit).

Aug 6

Zucs continuing to grow.

 And it looks like there may even be zucs forming behind female flowers (maybe we'll get some zucs after all!)

And we've come back to more cucs growing.

 And yet more forming!

Our lovely little cuc vine has grown.

And we even have a few self-starting sunflowers!

 

One of our bell peppers got sunburnt a couple weeks ago on a particularly dry day. These two are getting quite sizable!

 And we have quite a few more bell peppers forming!

 

 Our tomatoes are ripening :-) Yum! I love fresh tomatoes!

We have quite a bit of basil too! Probably a bit too much :-) I should make some pesto sauce.

The zuc plants look pretty in the sun.

 

 We certainly have a beautiful garden plot.

(Someone weeded while we were gone-- It was really thoughtful...but they pulled up my vinca and other intentionally planted greenery...which was entrenched amid weeds.)