produce!

I suppose it's about time for a garden update. I have a few oddly shaped cucumbers almost ready to pick. Apparently they didn't get completely pollinated, and are only filling out on the top half, so they have these long, spiky nipples at the ends. We have sunflowers, but they only got about four feet tall, and the blooms are only about the size of a saucer rather than a dinnerplate. Each bean plant has about two or three pods, rather than the 10-16 they should have, but they are looking pretty good. My daylilies are just now blooming, usually they bust out in April or May at the latest. My roses didn't put on much of a show this year, quit blooming earlier than usual, but they are rebloomers and usually bloom again from September to Christmastime. The avocado pit now has leaves and the pineapple is loving being outdoors. Hundreds of watermelon seeds started growing in my compost. I'm sure it's too late for them to set fruit before cold weather arrives, but I'm leaving some to grow undisturbed, just to see what happens. We also have some blackberries and figs, but it looks as though the wildlife might get them before we do. Okra is coming up, we still have plenty of hot weather left this year, they should be fine now that we are getting rain on a regular basis. And I found one tiny little kale plant, out of the bajillions of seeds I planted, one survived. The spinach bolted (set flowers) immediately after growing two or three leaves, and is inedible. The watermelons and pumpkins are still alive and blooming now, but do look rather puny.