Remember the mystery plant from Connie. It's the heart shaped leaves in the middle of the pansies...
The pansies didn't survive my June vacation, but my Connie plant just kept on growin'.
This is what it grew up to be. The flowers are small, and it's not very exotic, but proved to be very hardy with those poppy pods full of seed.
Still don't know the name.
Do you?
Second mystery... the volunteer vining plant. Tasted like a cucumber at the beginning, but had this roundy shape, and the new fruit looked like kiwi; small, dark, and fuzzy.
I decided at some point to not pick any more "cucumbers" and lo and behold, they grew up to be honey dew melons...
well some of them look like honey dew, but - on the same plant, mind you - is this other dark rough skinned melon. Soon we will pick them and see what they really are.
The sunflower heads are drying on the picnic table. The corn husks have been hauled to the burn pile..... and we're still picking patty pans.
The cantaloupes were beautiful. Some perfect specimens... some not so great! But they are ours and we love them.
That's it til we harvest the acorn and butternut squash.
Just as a side note. The temperatures here this week have been 40 degrees when we rise in the AM, and 96 to 100 mid afternoon. We also have a substantial amount of smoke filling the air. We're not seeing flames. The fires are north of us in southern Oregon. Dry and windy, we are told.
Take care.
luv/jo
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