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The garden is doing really well.

The tomato plants have to be at least 5-and-a-half feet tall, and they are still growning

We have been eating peppers (green, jalapeno, and banana) out of it for a little while now.  We have made fresh pesto, and have been using the herbs in bread (sage and rosemary) and to entice the cats (catnip).

The catnip plant is growing wildly… much more so then the other herbs, but I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised there as it is in the mint family, and mint does tend to spread.  Maybe I should plant catnip in that “dead” spot in the front flower bed where everything else that I have tried there dies, and see what happens?

There are even a few tomatoes that are starting to blush from green to pink.

future ingredients in a tricolor salad

we are going to have a lot of tomatoes

The zucchini on the other hand…  It started out really strong.  Started growing like crazy, started to take over its corner of the plot and crowd the eggplants and green peppers, bloomed really early, started fruiting early (and started fruiting a lot!), and now… Well, now it has started to go south.  It somehow ended up with mildew all over the leaves, despite the recent hot-and-dry spell, and it looks to me like it is suffering from some kind of root rot as well.  Plus, whenever I go out to give it a look-see, there are ants crawling all over it.  Ants crawling all over it and nothing else in the garden.  Which I have decided to take as kind of a bad sign as far as the long-term prospects for the zucchini go.

Despite the bad omens, there is a truly enormous zucchini on the vine, which we plan on eating for dinner tonight.