I finally finished building the enclosure for the pole beans this week, and they’ve already climbed all the way up and over the top of the strands of twine we tied up as a temporary stop-gap until we get some webbing or netting for them to fill out.

Charmaine also added tomato cages for some of the larger tomato plants, and did a bunch of weeding. I’m not a very good helper when it comes to weeding, but at least I feel like I’m not completely useless after building that bean cage.

The onslaught of the zucchini has begun. In the past 3 days I’ve picked 3 that were almost too large, and there’s another 10 that will be ready this week. The yellow squash will probably start this week as well. The cucumber hasn’t started, but it’s spreading out and blooming everywhere, so I’m sure we’ll wind up with more cucumbers than we can use.

Maybe all my joking about building a catapult to toss some of this produce at the neighbors isn’t such a bad idea after all?