Another short visit to the Veggie Garden

     It has been almost a week since we looked at the watermelon, so it is time to once again trek out to the "back 40" and  have a look. The remaining two melons are showing signs of being ripe (dried stems, yellow on some of the surfaces)

The larger of the two water melons

This on is smaller which would indicate the inside isn't quite ready yet

so it is a matter of cutting them up and having a look which we will do in short order.
     I thought that since we are already out here in the garden we should look at the other stuff still growing, all of it identifiable; We begin with the red bell peppers. All green bell peppers are actually bell peppers that are not yet ripe.

Red bell peppers, not quite ripe yet.

More red bell peppers. We have harvested some that were ripe.

We then follow with some of the other things;

Anaheim peppers, these are not yet ripe but we have harvested red ones

Oregano and it is doing well because it is growing in the shade of the Avocado tree (bush)

Pimento peppers, not quite ripe, but good and not too spicy

The Basil is trying to go to seed, but they are cute little blooms

The lone surviving tomato plant, these are supposed to be Roma tomatoes, but somehow the shape doesn't quite make it



The three year old Avocado "tree" grown from a seed stuck in the ground,
but it is only growing and not producing.

No this is not a cemetary with neatly arranged headstones although it could be in view of all the veggies that bit the dust in the Texas heat and dry spring and summer; it is the parched earth of the vegetable garden
with the remaining struggling plants. As this is being written it is 98 deg. F in the shade.

      And here is a look inside the small melon. Some of it is ripe but again not near the edges, so the larger of the two is being left for a couple more days to give it time to ripen some more.

      It still appears appetising so after these slices cool down a bit they will be eaten.
Since I mentioned the temperature a bit earlier in this post I think I will post photos with the proof. These photos were taken at 7 PM CDT on August 3, 2011.

110 F / 44 C in direct sun

98 F / 36 C in an area that is shaded all day long