Eudora Welty

I picked the first muskmelon today! We'll see how it tastes. In the meantime, I noticed a weird split in one of the other growing muskmelons. I leaned closer and discovered it was a monster's lair! Eek!



I probably should have flicked it off but I was a bit intimidated. It had more legs than me.

The ground cherry still looks cool and I still don't understand it.



The soybeans are coming in! They're fuzzy.



Lately every time I go to the garden, night or day, I get swarmed by mosquitoes. They eat any part of me that's exposed, including my face, and I come back covered in welts. The only thing that consoles me is the idea that the mosquitoes have a tiny little garden blog of their own, and that it has entries like:

Went out to the garden about an hour before sunset. The human seems to be growing well. She comes with a little hat! Look what we did:



Anyway, here's a recent bounty; not too bad.