Random act of squash

So, here it is, the first real fruit of this summer's garden -- a yellow summer squash, in its infancy!

But the truth is, I didn't plant this squash. I planted squash, yes. The squash plants that I sowed are growing quite nicely...

However, this particular specimen is the volunteer offspring from some flat yellow summer squash of 2007.

The squash that I planted are probably a week or two behind this squash, which sprouted in-between the shallots, all by its lonesome. When I realized what it was, I decided to let it go and see what happened.

It's looking nice. We'll keep it!

Chomp, chomp

Something has been eating our tomato plants, so Evan put up a fence:

All things considered, it didn't take overly long to build. Here's one of the specimens that I hope will survive.

One or two of the other tomato plants were almost completely eaten away; nothing remains but the stem. Interestingly, the hungry critter went for the heirloom tomatoes and didn't make dinner out of one of the non-heirloom plants that I'd also planted.

Nate seems to be enjoying the fence as a new obstacle to run around.

Weathering it

Had some visitors from NYC last weekend. Saturday afternoon, Salma helped me plant the tomatoes while Evan took everyone else on a hike.

After we finished our planting, it rained on and off for most of the rest of the weekend. So, our timing was good, in terms of planting. We also planted beans and some summer squash. I hope to be posting their growing progress here, so Salma can see how they do!

The chives are blooming. They looked particularly vibrant in the rain.