YardFarm

Taken this morning in my tiny front yard garden spaces.

A beautiful, HUGE (8-9" across) zucchini female flower:

The backside of the same flower with the new zucchini at the base:

Russian kale coming up:

Yellow squash:

Several varieties of tomato:

Peppers in a pot:

America and Bordeaux spinach in a planter:

Basil coming up:

Intensive gardening:

Mint, flowering dill, and oregano (growing in kitty litter buckets):

Aloe in a row (begging to be separated and re-potted). When cooking pasta recently, pouring off the boiling water, I managed to pour a stream of near boiling water over my index finger while holding the pot. It turned red, and within a couple minutes I could see a large blister forming. I immediately cut a large stem of aloe, split it open lengthwise, and taped it around my finger and kept it there the rest of the day until bedtime. I then removed it and coated the finger with wheatgrass cream and bandaged it, then another piece of aloe the next morning. After 24 hours, my finger was fine. No pain, no redness, no blister—from what I'm guessing amounted to a second-degree burn. Everybody should keep aloe handy: