Grow – Cook – Make

Look who’s hiding in the melon patch! The first Pacific Treefrog I find this year. While I clean out melon leaves affected by powdery mildew this little Treefrog is very, very still, hoping maybe that I will not take its leaf away.

California Whiptails are my constant companions while I work in the garden. They generally just scatter away as I move about doing my chores. This one, though, is too busy to care about me. Just a quick sideways glance, and back to work.

Digging, um… I think I know now who is poking those little holes all over the garden beds…

That’s how I found them, just like that.

I pulled all the carrots since some of them were starting to bolt and planted a new lettuce bed in their spot. I got a lot of carrots, most of them well behaved a couple of raunchy ones. They are turning out very flavorful and sweeter than they’ve ever been at this time of year. This cool weather is giving me just a trickle of tomatoes but I get to have a basketful of good carrots.

For more delicious pictures and stories of harvests and to add your own, head on over to Daphne’s Dandelions, host of Harvest Monday, and take a look at what other gardeners have been up to this week.