Garden Update

Pepper Crop

I couldn't believe how much the vegetable garden had changed in the nine days I was up in Oregon.

Cindy's pepper plants are now producing red and yellow peppers.  She's freezing most of them for use later on.

The huge Cinderella pumpkin is now revealed in all its mighty glory; the vines had become so riddled with powdery mildew that Cindy ripped them out to let the pumpkin continue to mature until she's ready to deal with it.

We were surprised at the size of this pumpkin; Cindy thought she was planting pumpkins that would be much smaller pie pumpkins, rather than a Jack o'Lantern size pumpkin.  It's probably a very good thing that this is the only pumpkin the vine produced--I love pumpkin pie, but this one pumpkin is going to provide a lot of pumpkin meat for pies.

Cindy said that when she planted it, she was thinking that "Cinderella" referred to something small, not something the size of Cinderella's coach.

If it had gotten much bigger, it could pass for a small Volkswagen.