Just Add Dirt

We bought a melon from the store.  As I was scooping out the seeds, I found myself wondering, "Would these grow?"  So I saved a small handful, rinsed them, dried them and put 'em in a small jar.  But three of them...those three I walked straight out onto the back patio and stuck in a pot of dirt (where other seeds had refused to sprout) then finished putting together dinner.  Now, now I have two seedlings from those three seeds.  Not a bad germination rate

That rather large and lush green thing obscuring one of my the melon seedlings?  That's a potato.  It was at the bottom of the bag, going green and starting to sprout, so I plunked it in the dirt.  It's now a solid foot tall, getting larger daily.

We were preparing some sweet potatoes for dinner one night.  Daughter trimmed off ends (I'm not allowed near sweet potatoes with sharp implements anymore) that were just starting to show sprouts (the sweet potatoes were still fine for dinner).  So....I took the sprouting bits, grabbed a grow bag I had bought last winter, filled it with dirt and chucked in those sprouting ends.

Now, I am apparently growing sweet potatoes too.   Yes, I know they are too close together.  I hadn't really properly planned to grow any potatoes at all this season.

My cream of the crop squash (that I wasn't sure survived the squirrels) has at least one squash:

And one of the pumpkins survived the squirrel invasion as well!

Ummm, y'all?  I am running out of patio space.

Embracing my (not so inner) Ivy

It's been a few months since I last hennaed my hair. ( I have more, just haven't bothered) The ashy, and quite blonde still, colored roots a discordant contrast against my usual warm, bright, copper of choice.  Darling Daughter had been looking at some Manic Panic.  Her plan was just to dye the ends of her hair, just for something different.

I realized that for as long as I have been dyeing my hair (more than two decades), I had never done it anything except an expected shade.

So now my roots are bright green.

(Not a great shot, but people are still setting off random, large fireworks about 1am around here, nor do I enjoy the taking of the selfie.)  I did the underside too, so my braids are varigated and all those little hairs glow bright green in the sunlight.

I rather like it!

Finally, it is Summer!

Watering the garden before the heat of the day.  Listening to the hum of bees as they go from flower to flower.  The smell of the tomato vines in the air.

Less than a month ago, I was having to turn my heat back on, the temperatures had dropped so far.  I worried my poor plants would never bear fruit.  Now, I have had to prop up beans, peas, cucumbers, and tomatoes with 5-6 foot wood dowels and garden twine.

Only one actual cucumber has been produced.

It has since been used as a side for dinner one evening.  The consensus was that it was delicious.

I let a random onion go to flower.  It is the pompom I didn't realize my garden needed.

The bees adore it!

One of my salad pots may have accidentally started producing an Audrey 2:

It's not started singing, so I think we are safe...for now.

I haven't finished any sort of craft project in ages.  I did cast on a new one though.

An emPower People bandana in Malabrigo silky merino in Purple Mystery.  Wear some purple y'all.