Garden!Porn -- Mid-summer edition

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Everything going on in the world of my garden! There are tiny little golf ball-sized pumpkins, and we should be harvesting yellow squash within a week. The chinese cabbage will take over the world, if I don't eat it all first!


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Pride of the pumpkin patch! My best vine so far.	Another view of the pumpkin vines. The trellis is working out great! (Also, you can spy these interesting little tree-like things one of my neighbors grows every year. I cannot remember the name, though!)	My Moon & Stars Watermelon vine. It's a bit behind--no baby watermelons yet!	My Charentais (french canteloupe) melon vine. Again: no melons yet!
This broccoli should not be flowering! Bad, BAD broccoli! (It grows much better as a cool weather crop. I keep trying to tell my mom...)	Cucumbers! There are little baby cukes, but I didn't get a picture of them.	Chinese cabbage! Producing like gangbusters. I had some for dinner last night, and it was yum!	The beans (purple Violettos and Emerite haricot vert) have finally taken hold of the fence, and are reaching for the sky! There are flowers, but no baby beans yet. (In the background: one of my neighbors has apparently claimed his plot of land for both America and Italy, the greedy bastard...)
Another view of the beans, this one with lovely flowers!	Tomatoes! All green and healthy...	...and producing babies!	evilhippo has called chard the "hipster of vegetables", and I can't help but agree!
Just look at these hip, gorgeous bastards!	They'd best not get too cocky, though: woodchucks are the tough, hipster-hating jocks of the garden!	For some reason, there are a lot of empty plots this year. He's some lovely pink weeds growing on one of them.	And I know these are weeds, and therefore I should hate them, but: oh, they are darling little blooms! And the combination of the orange-y coral and the bright blue is just stunning!

In other plant news: Thursday's hail storms in Chicago have severely damaged the Garfield Park Conservatory. My friend actually works there as their director of family programs. It's a beautiful conservatory, with a massive collection of plants. The whole conservatory is devastated, with nearly all of the glass roofs laying in ruins and 80% of the plants damaged. It's closed until further notice.

If you can, please consider donating to help repair the damage! You can do so on their webpage.

Comments

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Ah, another Chicagoan! Yes, the conservatory really is fantastic! My friend Kelly has worked there for about 3, 4 years now--I've gotten the 'back stage tour'! ;) I'm just heartbroken over the damage!

I'm surprised, but the storm completely missed us! (We usually get most of Chicago's weather a day or two behind.) I know the storm hit some parts of MI, but we didn't get a drop of rain!

I'm glad you enjoyed the chat! I wasn't around tonight, but should definitely be in tomorrow evening. And there are exciting things happening with the chat--ladylovelace is building us a permanent room on one of her domains that will be ad-free! Stay tuned!