A Garden Update

I looked at "Midnights Mountain" yesterday, it is amazing how the pumpkin vines have grown.

They have covered the mountain, the path, the garage roof and now they have climbed over the wysteria, the magnolia, the bottle brush and now they are climbing the sycamore.

I peeped through the giant leaves and there is a pumpkin the size of a tennis ball hanging from a branch, higher up 

than my head.

The biggest pumpkin is now the size of a squashed soccer ball, well that is what I am told, 

I cannot see it because it is too far into the jungle.

Here is the latest photo.....

a little hard to see, but it is in there!

My tomatoes are starting to ripen, 

there are dozens on the bushes, but I think the strange weather is not helping them ripen.We might be eating green tomato chutney this winter.

I planted a different variety of egg plant this year,

this is what I found yesterday ----

isn't it beautiful, pale purple with white stripes.

So far I can only see two, I hope more come soon.

As you know, I love taking closeups of my plants,

here are a few I took on Sunday.

a pumpkin flower,

the sun shining through a pumpkin leaf,

tiny toadstools among the strawberries.

I love my garden, I dont get a lot of produce from it,

but just watching the plants growing is magic.

Until next time ----- smell a tomato

AND

hug a puppy!!!