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.