Warm temps and some intermittent rain have made the garden very happy the last couple of days.

The zucchini is quickly developing some monster size leaves and has two blooms. There was a third, but it went the way of the original two and dried up. I'm hoping these new ones fare better.

The tomato has three blooms as of today. I think it's benefiting the most from the recent weather, especially the abundance of water. The bucket is well drained, so sustained access to water is helpful for it.

The peppers are doing well. No real changes here. I'm still waiting for the fourth pepper to gain some length.

The pole beans are coming along nicely. I think I'm going to put some additional fresh dirt in to help it's access to water and nutrients, too. I keeping a close eye on the lookout for blooms. Soon, I think.

The peas, especially the rightmost bucket, have been gaining some good height. The one plant is up to the level of the top crossbar on the trellis. Roughly shoulder height to me.

Oh, and we have two actual peapods from the earlier blooms! Yay! (Sorry for the blur. One-handed pictures are not easy.)

The rain has helped the cabbage leaves get bigger. That's a good thing, because it's also washing off all the Diatomaceous Earth I'd dusted them with and the earwigs are taking advantage. Bigger leaves give the plants a better shot at surviving and eventually producing. Still cracks me up that I'm fighting this hard to save plants I didn't even want when I started off. Ha!

The brussels sprouts are holding their own, like the cabbage, but the rightmost bucket got chomped on pretty good. I removed some more of the most damaged leaves after I took these pictures. Then, I got my DE duster baggie and re-applied another coating to the plants and around the base of the containers.

I was almost done when I caught some movement out the of the corner of my eye. Somebody didn't appreciate my efforts. I tried to dust it off, but that didn't work either. I'm hoping the DE doesn't hurt it, because I like having toads in the garden. It's very fat, so I'm hoping it's feasting on the earwigs!

I'm not sure what kind of toad this is, but I'll bet Hive account@papa-pepper would know. ;~D

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