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Overdue update.
The rains have finally ended. It was raining every single day here. I lost quite a few plants because it never dried out. In the raised beds I mostly lost stuff like cantaloupe, cucumber, and watermelon plants. I also seem to be losing a couple zucchini, but at least one has given me a few big zucchini so far. The epazote absolutely loves this climate. It has been growing like mad and flowering the entire time.
I need to go through and remove suckers from the tomatoes of one garden. They grew two feet tall in like a week. The main garden(1st 12 pics) has the tomatoes topping out at 6 feet now. The volunteer squash plant at one corner of the garden has turned out to be some weird thing that looks like a cross between a Dinosaur Gourd and a yellow crookneck squash. I had three of them for breakfast and they taste amazing. The vine itself is gargantuan.
Odd thing about the crookneck squashes so far. Last year the only volunteer one that came up in a weird spot was also the best tasting one. Same thing this season. Both produced squash that look like squash I never had on the farm before. Obviously they are expressing some odd genes. The seeds I saved from the best squash last year (yellow crookneck with green end cap,) has produced plants this season that bear fruit that are completely yellow, completely green, yellow with yellow-orange stripes, yellow with green end cap, and ones that are green and yellow in random spots and areas. Some are better tasting than others, but they all need to be eaten very early. The line originally came from store bought stock in October as, "decorative squash," many years ago.
