Summertime

I think early success led to high expectations, which I try (usually unsuccessfully) never to have. Rebuttable pessimism!

Two of the cucumber plants are still growing and flowering and striking adorable tendril poses all over.





But the other one looks ill - yellow leaves, no flowers, dried tendrils. I didn't want to take a picture so I didn't.

The soybeans just might be getting ready to soybean. Pretty little flowers, not very many. Did you know that soybean means "I am a bean" in Spanish? Well it does.



The regular beans are ready for picking! And they're delicious.



And on another bright note, here's a spontaneous poppy.



But the eggplant and cantaloupes, don't seem to be making any fruit. I did some reading about cantaloupes (technically muskmelons, actually), which have both male and hermaphroditic flowers. Only the hermaphroditic flowers turn into fruit. You'd think in my line of work I could tell hermaphrodites from males, but I can't. So the prognosis is murky.

But more often than not, pessimism is still rebutted:





Happy summer!