After seeing valis2's garden pictures this evening, I realized that I haven't posted pictures of my garden in awhile. So here they are!


Here are two 'yellow pear tomatoes' in a pot on our deck. I bought these two teeny little seedlings from a neighbor's garage sale some weeks ago (for a quarter apiece). They looked so tiny and helpless, I put them in a pot instead of the garden (besides, I was out of tomato cages). Apparently, they like it there.


Remember those early pictures of my straggly little parsley seedlings? They were still pretty scrawny when it became nice enough to put them outside, but I was nervous that the bunnies would be very grateful for it, so I planted them in a hanging basket, and sprinkled a bunch of parsley seeds on the surface of the soil along with the seedlings. I guess they like it, too. *grin*


I forgot to buy a package of zucchini seeds this year, and happened across an ebay auction for some, and bought them on a whim. I planted them all (25 seeds) divided between 4 hills, remembering that zuke seeds don't always do that well for me. They must have been really good seeds!


My green beans are finally going to be successful, thanks to some good advice -- several people advised me to use chicken wire to keep the bunnies out. But The Home Depot had it only in enormous rolls, so I bought these cute green wire fences instead, and THEN planted a big bunch of bean seeds. As you can see, the bunnies have not been able to invade.


The cucumbers are not nearly as tall as the ones I started inside earlier this spring, but they're coming along. Assuming that we continue to alternate rainy days and hot days, I'll be good and sick of cukes by October.


Next time I take garden pictures, I hope I'll remember to take them earlier in the day. Hopefully the shadows of the early evening don't make this picture too hard to decipher. The green cages (4 of them) each have 2 cherry tomato plants that I bought at the grocery store. The silver cages (3 of them) each have 2 or 3 tomato plants that I started from seed. I got those mixed up, so I'm eager for them to start producing so I can tell which plant is which! Like the yellow pear tomatoes pictured above, they're starting to get flowers.


And lastly, here's a fuscia New Guinea Impatien. The more important thing in the picture is the flowerpot that I got as a birthday present from my friend Jean a few years ago -- she painted it herself, and I use it to grow something special every year.
(The window you see behind it is my bedroom window.)

ETA: Corrected a picture to show the flowerpot instead of the tomatoes again.
Also, if you look behind the zucchini plants, you'll see that the rhubarb patch is growing back very nicely after the spring harvest. There WILL be rhubarb cake at LoonCon. And maybe for WriterCon, too, if it is requested.