What’s been growing in my urban garden?
This squash plant grew from homemade compost. I had no idea what kind of squash would grow, and for most of the summer, nothing did.
I just noticed that there are some small squash starting to grow. These look like one of the more exotic ones that came in our CSA. Looking forward to trying them.
Not sure why tomatoes are deciding to grow in my garden this year, but I’m definitely not complaining. The big striped ones are green zebras, which is a lovely heirloom variety. They are tart and unsettling because of their color. We have a variety of cherries that mostly grew from compost. Unfortunately we ate all our white currant tomatoes before I took a photo of them.
Our purple Joe Pye weed is flowering. This is one of the native plants I got from Project Native. Something is happily eating away at the leaves. I know most people don’t like to have their plants eaten, but that is part of the point of planting native varieties. I’ve given something a food source. I keep checking for caterpillars, eggs or cocoons, but haven’t seen any yet.
And this crazy looking thing is a mushroom growing out of the mulch by my chickens. It’s a type called a stinkhorn. They attract all kinds of insects. You can see many sitting on the top of the one in the foreground.
What’s growing in your garden?
