Good News and Bad News

In the spirit of optimism, I will start with the good news.  The winter squash is going really well.  Every morning, when I go out to check on the garden, there are so many more flowers than before, and they all have bees in them, busily pollinating.  As a result, both kinds of winter squash are full of squashes in all sizes.

Spaghetti Squash

 This is the biggest of the squashes so far.  This will certainly be ready before September!

Spaghetti Squash

The spaghetti squash plants are covered with these tiny squashes!  Good thing they store well.

Butternut squash

 Even the butternut squash is covered with tiny fruit.  And even this tiny, they already look like butternut squash!  Good thing they store well also.

Spaghetti Squash

 This afternoon, I found this guy growing inside the garden...I swear he wasn't there yesterday!

On the bad news side of things is the zucchini.  Most all of the leaves have dried up and turned brown.  Most of the flowers are not pollinating - I'm not sure if I have all male or all female flowers, but I only had 1 small zucchini, which has since rotted.  I have pulled off most of the bad leaves and treated the rest with Neems, so maybe they can come back.  I'm going to give them a week or 2, but I'm not holding out much hope.

Sick Zucchinis

I do have quite a few Brandywine tomatoes that are looking good so far.

Brandywine Tomatoes

And a lot of yellow grape tomatoes

Grape Tomatoes

And a final bit of good news....beans!  Tonight's dinner will include fresh beans from the garden.

Green Beans