Time For Squash

Our Flying Saucer summer squash has begun to produce fruit, and it's sublimely tasty, as is the first Black Beauty zucchini we harvested this weekend. Some partial pruning occurred this weekend to reclaim some bed space. Mostly around the raspberries which grew larger this year than ever. We tried to follow the suggestions in this nice PDF file, but really just ended up hacking them off to knee-high. They seem to come back stronger each year anyway, so unless they're noticeably lackluster next year, i don't think we'll have too many problems.

The aforementioned winter squash that had taken over the back plot revealed undiscovered dark green gourds, and one of the vines had even climbed a nearby tree and dangled two foot-long fruit. I'll report back if they taste any good.