Yellow

Yellow has been the boy's favorite color since he knew what colors were. It's not a slight infatuation; it's an obsession. Again, it's his preoccupation with the color yellow that got us gardening to begin with. He saw yellow pear tomatoes in the hardware store. Never mind that he won't eat tomatoes, nor did he ever eat these particular yellow pear ones to be exact, he was entranced by the color and so we planted them.

What can I say? The boy loves yellow; "Yellow is the sun," he proclaims. "Yellow is a happy color! Why doesn't everyone else like yellow as much as I do?" I don't argue with or blame him for loving yellow.

Usually.

For yellow has now undoubtedly become my garden's favorite color as well because every blasted thing out there is as yellow as the sun now that we've had all this stinkin' rain for over a week. Everything that's not living like the concrete, house and deck has all turned green.

*sigh* Oddly enough, things still seem to be growing, especially the mushrooms, and the slugs and snails are in overdrive.

Here's the corner yard in its entirety, and then a closer look at the squash and peppers.

I have two pots of ichiban eggplants. The pot on the right has two plants in it as it was purchased as a transplant and the second plant hadn't surfaced yet and I never thinned it. It's amazing to me the difference in size of the plants. The size of the eggplants are different as well. I suppose this should be the poster child for plant spacing and root space availability.
Here are the fruits on the smaller plant. Aren't they cute!
This is the monster I pulled off the larger plant today. This one came from the plant with only one in the pot. Again, the size difference says it all.

I was looking for something to put up against the eggplant like a quarter etc. to give you an accurate idea of it's size. All I could come up with was a remote control or Elmo.

Elmo it is.
We put the eggplant in a pasta dish tonight for dinner. It wasn't too shabby.

Here is the side yard with bush cukes and purple beans. Looks like those things are a bit crowded in there, but MAN are they growing fast. What a difference a little sun makes.

Here's something I never, ever saw last year. For all of the cucumbers and hundreds of male flowers I had, I never had one blossoming female. I've got three in this bush batch already and I'm preparing to be a proud momma.
Hot peppers are doing very well. If I only knew what to do with them!

Banana peppers are doing amazingly. I've already taken one off for the man.

There doesn't seem to be much change for the forecast, so for the next week or so we're still in this rain pattern with little sun. It's amazing anything is growing at all.

When I was slug pickin' this morning, I noticed a few insects had taken the opportunity to spread their eggs all over the lava rocks between the beds. There was no way to pick all of them off or remove all of the lava rock, but I took the chance and sprinkled some insecticide on them since they're all on the ground. The eggs were small and white and others were a cream leaning to yellow. All the same size and relatively uniformly placed all over the surfaces. As much as I wonder what they are, I'm not in the gambling mood to let them hatch and see.

The morning comes early. Sweet gardening dreams.