Today I was admiring my tomatillo monster plant when I found something completely new.  I found a blossom! In fact, my largest plant has two blossoms, and one of the smaller plants has one blossom.  The blossoms themselves are gorgeous, my picture here really isn’t very good.  But what is really interesting is that the blossom is under the leaves.  They’re not poking out on top or dangling from a branch, they are forming on the main stem underneath the large leaves. They must like shadows and the large leaves provide that.  This is a very interesting plant!

Then here are my peas!

They look great- full of peas- these dangling here are my shelling peas.  And that leads me to the problem-I planted the shelling peas and the snap peas right next to each other…

I know, I really wasn’t thinking, because one row of shell peas and one row of snap peas are totally intertwined- and even worse, I really can’t get at them because of where I planted the trellises for climbing.  Big lesson learned here I guess.  The snap peas are just beginning to form, so I have a few days to think about it anyways before I have to do something drastic.

Oh- and this was a fun find!

When I went through my seeds I found three old butternut squash seeds and thought, what the heck, and planted them in the middle of my yellow pole beans.  Well, sure enough, all three seeds have come up. It will be interesting to see if they do anything.  So far I seem to have a bit of a green thumb this year- and all 13 of my tomato plants seem to be doing well.  Yes, you read 13.  Don’t know what I was thinking, but after two years of very few tomatoes, by golly, this is the year! Several of the plants have little green fruit, so we’ll see how they do.