September 20
By late September, the Mexican sunflowers had pretty much stopped blooming. Here's the biggest one after I pulled it up - it was pretty huge. We grew it from seed!
The soy beans were pretty much done too. It was neat to have them, but I don't think I'd do it again - they took all summer to grow, and they weren't particularly delicious compared to store-bought. Anyway, legumes are nitrogen-fixing plants because they have root nodules where bacteria that convert nitrogen into a form usable by plants live. When I pulled them up, you could see the nodules, which was kind of cool:
September 24
For reasons I can't recall, I went to the garden in the evening that day, and got these nice shots of eggplant buds and baby cantaloupes.
September 27
After watering, I picked a few zinnias. When I got home I saw that this yellow one looked like it had a tiny flower growing inside it:
October 5
Next to the water hose, we saw this neat weird tiny red thing growing out of the grass and clover. I think you need to click on it to see it well:
It looked just like a ring I bought in Mexico City this summer:
I picked a cantaloupe that was tiny but on a dead vine, so clearly wasn't going to grow any more. When I cut it open it was a perfect little mini-cantaloupe! I feel like you can see its relation to the cucumber here more than you can see it in the fully-grown cantaloupes:
October 10
We had heard about these mushrooms that sometimes appear in the garden that look pretty gross, smell like dead meat, and get swarmed by flies. And yesterday I was lucky enough to see some. I only had my cell phone camera with me so these are kind of impressionistic.
Well, that's kind of a gross visual note to end on, so here's a zinnia.
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