Code Red

Marigolds you can see from space

 

After last week's heat wave, we have...less heat but all of the humidity. We hates it.

The garden, on the other hand, enjoyed the heat a very great deal. I'd repotted the basil, last week, and cut back all of the bolty bits. I am being repaid by having it rebound with lovely dark green, healthy leaves, so I may get some pesto out of it after all.

As quickly as they appeared, the caterpillars seem to have gone, and the nasturtiums are rebounding, as well. They never stopped flowering, once they got started, and there were a bunch of fuzzy bees zooming around them, this evening, when I went to look at things.

The medieval plants have turned out to be Salad Burnet and Winter Savory, both of which are pretty tasty. We'll need to start including the former into our salads (since the lettuces are getting big enough to eat), and see what we can do a bit later with the latter.

Pleasingly, my Chocolate Cosmos is going gangbusters. I'll get more, next year, so I can have more than one, but even just one is very exciting! (It's the one in the repurposed red cafetière)

Bonus Farmer Goth tootsies

But the feel-good story of the week is the sudden and dramatic appearance of actual ripe tomatoes. 

EEE!!!

So shy...

We've eaten one, each, and deem them to be right and proper, so we're hoping they tell all of their friends.

So, small victories, this week, but that's OK.