The two tomato plants that were down to a tomato apiece once I pulled off the ones with rot now have more little baby tomatoes on them. There are some flowers on them too, although I didn't notice the flowers before the little tomatoes appeared. Apparently the plants haven't given up entirely though... at least on growing the tomatoes. Still nothing on any of them turning red. My mom though discovered one of her tomatoes last night that is getting reddish.
I pulled off my second black beauty zucchini this morning. Eight inches long but only 4.5-5 around. Quite long and skinny. I also cut a few 6-inch of the grey zucchini. There were male and female flowers open this morning, but the rain had filled up a lot of the blossoms and even the ones with some leaf cover were damp. Not a good morning for pollination.
Yesterday I had my biggest harvest of beans so far. I tried steaming them, which I'm not sure I've ever done with green beans before, and a lot of them split open and the seeds popped out. Still tasty. Maybe I let the seeds get too big before picking.
Another neighbor from around the corner I don't know stopped as he was driving by the other day and said he tried a garden but the deer ate everything. His house backs up to the creek though and I'm further inside the neighborhood so I'm sure he gets a lot more deer where he is. (Now I just need one of these friendly neighbors to drive by while I'm harvesting zucchini so I can offload some on them.) I haven't had any animal problems yet, although it does look like a bird might have pecked one of the little butternut squashes that didn't get pollinated.
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