June Update

John standing beside the sunflower plants

In just two weeks' time, all the plants are continuing to thrive. (Well, except for those sugar snap peas that never really got going.) As you can see from the above photo, the tallest sunflowers are well above the block fence now and still growing, although they are yet to bloom.

Fortunately, some of the smaller sunflower plants, like this one, have started blooming.

And we were very surprised to discover that we somehow got a couple of red sunflower plants mixed in with the seeds John planted. Here's one that just bloomed. It's so dark that it almost looks black in the bright Arizona sunlight.

This yellow sunflower plant has multiple blooms, with new ones opening every day. The flowers seem to be of the smaller variety.

The bush beans are also doing very well, and we have several beans that appear to be full sized, like the one above.

Last night John decided to sample one green bean and one ear of corn to test their ripeness.

He reported that the green bean tasted as though it wasn't quite ripe enough. We'll let them grow a few days longer and then pick and cook a few of them.

Here's John holding the ear of corn right before he cooked it for several minutes in the microwave with a damp paper towel wrapped around it. We both tasted it and the verdict was that it was delicious!  As you can see, these ears may end up being a little small, but we'll have plenty of corn to eat in the next few weeks... as well as (hopefully) green beans!