tuesday....

new zucchini

I can never complain when I have a little time in the garden on a weekday evening - even if it does mostly consist of trying to outsmart the powdery mildew (pm).  Yesterday's attack on the pm was a milk solution.  I guess the good news overall is it has only really affected the patty pan squash at this point (I found it on the tomatillo, but it seems to be faring better overall).  The pm has not gotten to the zucchini plants, that have just started to show some fruit.....there is a whole story behind these zuch's -long story short - they are supposed to more resistant to pm - we'll see.  

Harvested some more tomatoes and the first eggplant.  I usually have to pull the tomatoes when they are a pink or light yellow for the sungold's and let them fully ripen up inside; otherwise, our resident sparrow population treats themselves to some homegrown maters.  I should say I think it is the sparrows at this point, we have a pretty good urban suburban bird population residing in our hood - so there are quite a few suspects.   

The best part of yesterday, was dinner - all the veggies and herbs were from the garden except for the onion - store bought.  I have onion at the top of the fall planting list!!  

dinner!!

Temps in STX today are 82 / 73 with RAIN.