Beans look great!

Beefmasters and Big Boy (second picture) tomatoes I picked today. No real giant ones like the other day in this first picture.







Here are a few other Beefmasters. I did weigh the bigger one. 1 pound 7 ounces. I could tell by looking at it that it wasn't as big as that super sized one I had the other day but still a very good size. Unfortunatly it has a bad spot from where it started to crack and has moulded up top at the center. I will cut it up later and eat the good parts.

Ha, I got out just before the rain and picked myself two nice cucumbers so will be making a nice tomato and cucumber salad in a few minutes. Yumm, yumm.

I had a great salad from the garden today, too!

Mixed lettuces, young dandelion greens, peppercress, oregano, chocolate mint, purple basil, dill weed, cucumber and a lovely Black Krim tomato. Yum!

While I was out chopping and pulling weeds in the veggie patch, I was pleased to be able to witness a White-lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moth take its first flight. It was just emerging from a clump of tall grass I needed to cut.

Fortunately, I had my camera with me.

Here, its wings are going a mile a minute as it dries them, preparing for takeoff.

I got two of these pictures before it flew.


I tracked its flight and its landing spot and got this pretty picture too.




Then, I found a pair of mantis in the daisies.

Here's big momma mantis.



Picked my salad fixin's, gathered up my camera, and called it a very good day!

Great pictures! You had great timing on this one.

My salad was just tomato, cucumber and onion with some sour cream for dressing. Raining here now so I can't go out and pull weeds.

Yesterday I didn't want anything hot for dinner so I made a pasta salad that had Corno di Toro peppers, broccoli, Sweet 100 and Sungold cherry tomatoes and onion from the garden in it. We'll be having it again tonight. I made a lot.

Yumm!

That sounds like my kind of dinner, Tabby.

How do you like those peppers? Are they sweet, or hot?

The pepper are sweet. They are kinda like Marconi peppers.

I've never had either of those, but I'd add a sweet to my *like to try* list. Really good?

I like them I also like Gypsy which is a nice sweet pepper.

Chelle, Such luck to see that happen, and to have your camera when it does. Really great pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

Seven quarts of Juliet Tomatoes picked today.


Some Viva Italia tomatoes today. I have been picking these and they are so much better than Romas!


cherry tomatoes picked today

cucumbers


And some nice long ones. The biggest is 20 inches long!

Arrg, some of my sweet corn was munched by mice last night so I turned off the electric fence around the veggie garden and dropped the cat in. He came out with just 1 mouse. I hope he got more when he was in there. I'll be dropping him in tomorrow too. Right now he just wants to nap inside the house. And we don't let him outside at night.
Mice are one varmint that can get in under the electric fence.

Anyway, here's some more Bodacious corn out of that garden and some Corno di Toror sweet peppers out of the pepper garden.

Corn looks great!

Thanks Rita, that's the corn that didn't get nibbled on.

Well, when I looked at it I wanted corn for dinner right away. Mine will be coming from the store as I don't grow corn.

Should I tell you that it probably tastes better than anything from the store?
This is a really really good tasting variety. And it's usually eaten a few minutes after being picked.

I would never DARE grow corn. The racoons would be happy and I would never get any. I always buy from the store so don't know any better. But I have read that fresh from the garden is so much better.