Gardening in my roots, Mid-June

 The cucumbers, which were struggling to find the trellis to climb on, decided to climb on the Jalapeno Peppers instead. After I extracted the vines from the jalapenos and poked them through holes in the fence wire trellis, I noticed a few tiny inch-long cucumbers in the making. I was pleased--some, in a few days or a week--I'd have cucumbers in my salad!

 Only later did I look down at the bottom on the fence wire and find these monsters.  (The cherry tomato is there to indicate scale.) 

 

They taste okay, but how can one person eat even one of these? Wow.  

I also found my bean crop. Which seemed very large but has since been shelled down to about three pounds of beans, total. It's still worth the trouble -- these "tiger eye" beans are the best dried beans I've ever tasted.