Bursting With Produce

The tomatoes are feeling very exuberant these days. These two are now taller than me, and are sending branches out to try to get unsuspecting passers-by. They're covered in baby tomatoes and flowers, too, so we're totally ready for a massive crop to come in, probably perfectly timed to arrive just as we head out East for vacation next month.

In other news, the Asian pears are getting nice and heavy. Perhaps, I might suggest, a touch too heavy. These are not supposed to be weeping trees, after all. (Uh, please ignore the incredible mess in the garden right now; let's just say that this has been a very busy couple of weeks and leave it at that.)

But this afternoon we tried one of the pears and it was pretty good.

And here's a mystery: I carefully chose varieties of dahlia that would have contrasting and interesting colours and shapes, but for whatever reason, the flowers I get mostly look like this, no matter what tuber I planted:

I can't decide if this is mislabeling on the part of the seller (a very reputable dahlia grower) or unconscious yearning for mildly purplish flowers on my part, or some kind of strange climate thing, like whatever it is that makes all my roses in varying shades of pink all come out exactly the same colour. At any rate, it's kind of irritating.

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posted by ayse on 07/22/07