Not Knittng.

Changing gears for a moment….
Lately I have been constantly surrounded by knitting, planning for knitting or famous knitters. Today there will be no knitting content, even though I am working furiously on a sweater for Christina’s baby (or two babies!!) I would post a picture but on size 5 needles there’s not much exciting progress in plain old stockinette.
Today we’re going to talk about the garden. I tried something new this year: Cucumbers.
Here’s a close up shot:

Here’s one showing that they are now taller than the cage I am using to support them.

Anyone out there have a hint for me as to what I do now that they are too tall? I suppose I could take some bamboo stakes and tie them together and make a teepee but it sure will be tall and one good gust of wind would just take it all down.
Here are some tomatoes (also almost too tall)

And part of this year’s Blackberry crop so far:

These are growing great – my only problem is the little white fluffy alarm clock that wakes me up every morning about 6 am must be about 30 minutes behind the cardinals having a nice fresh breakfast of my blackberries. I guess I’m going to have to get some nets. That’ll put me right up there with the real farmers – right?
Speaking of my little white fluffy alarm clock:
Here he is guarding the garden – unless he is distracted by a butterfly. Or a bird. Or a snail. Or a blade of grass.