garden update

The impressive (to me, anyway) thing is that the lettuce seedlings that I sowed far too many of in a small flowerpot are still going strong: I ate a few more before coming inside. Summer in this part of Massachusetts is generally too hot for lettuce: I suspect the difference is some combination of a cooler than usual late spring and early summer, the terracotta pot, and maybe this variety of lettuce. It's Tom Thumb, an heirloom variety whose advantage, for my purposes, is that it produces smaller heads of lettuce than most other strains.

I also fed the cucumber and tomato plants. There's a cucumber that is almost ready to harvest (and at least one that will need another week or more), and plenty of little green tomatoes-to-be on one of the tomato plants. Both tomatoes, and all three cucumber plants, are still merrily flowering.