Squash and Mutant Produce #3

I have a squash starting!

And the latest mutant lemon. My friend Jess and I think it looks like an elephant head. Yes? No?



The results of the first night...

5 slugs in one of the three traps I set yesterday.

I plan to put in at least one more trap today, possibly two. I do feel bad about drowning them, but either they die, or my veggie plants die. Something has to die, so I suppose for now it will be the slugs.

Slugs

I decided if I want to have any broccoli and lettuce someday and continue to have peas, then I better make some slug traps. You know, small dishes in the ground filled with beer so the little alkies go for the beer instead of my veggies.. I don't really like the idea of drowning them, but, well, there ya go. I used Sierra Nevada Glissade, because I hate it and we have a bunch of bottles of it for some reason.

I put one on either side of the broccoli:

And one amidst the peas and squash:

And when I get a few more yogurt cups or 1/2 L lime mineral water bottles, I will put one or 2 by the lettuce.

So long, slugs!!

My first harvest! (Not mutant)

Snow peas!!

They are the tall mess of plants to the right of and as tall as the roses.

A pea pod before I picked it.

And 2 pea pods with a penny for size reference. They're so crisp and fresh and yummy!

Inside the Mutant Produce

By request, the insides of that mutant lemon. Notice the rotten looking areas... I decided it was not fit for human consumption. Oh well, we have lots more on the tree..

Happy Spring from the Desert!!

These were from Monday, and there was another rain system yesterday. Another one is expected to roll in tonight. Rain! Here! In late March! ????

Mutant Produce #2

Just off the lemon tree this morning.

I have a pea pod!

I can't wait until it's ripe and ready to eat- I never had fresh peas from the garden before. Hurry up peas!!

I have a Pea Flower!

I noticed it on Friday. Not on the peas on the trellis, but on the peas I just threw in the ground, not thinking they would grow, but they did. Bonus!

On this one, the flower kind of blends in with the white wall, but it's just to the right of the shadows on the wall.

It wasn't me!

-or-

Who farted??