May

Yesterday, we planted two different eggplant seedlings, one "fairytale eggplant" from the garden store and one white eggplant from the same farmer's market as last year's plant. We also planted okra from seed. And, most excitingly, sunflowers from Oma! The packet said they'll be nine to twelve feet high and the flowers will be 20 INCHES ACROSS.

In the meantime, it looks like the chive flowers are actually going to be quite pretty:



Also, the lemon cucumbers have sprouted (see the three little two-leaf things at the base of the fence). And look how many strawberries are growing! We need to figure out how to eat these before the squirrels do....



Last week, there was one lonely lima bean sprout, and that first green bean was just about to unfurl aboveground. This week, they're all out. I feel like at some point in the interim, there was a little "Boing!" sound coming out of our garden patch when they all sprung up.

Beans:

Lima beans:


The blackberries are already flowering! If you click on this, you can see how many clusters are on the branches behind it. I trimmed back about 80% of the branches after last year since it was kind of overwhelming, so I hope the remaining ones are pretty productive.


Finally, here's a flower we actually saw in someone else's yard, on the way to the garden store. They're so cool - the base of each flower is like a perfect rectangular tube: