somewhat less unscathed appendix

way more good news than bad...the beets are coming along after a slow start...so are the cucumbers in the second photo...the third photo is of the runner madness in the strawberry bed...we will have a packed house come autumn...the last two photos document a peculiar event...the sixteenth red nordland potato i planted in april and gave up on has emerged in late june...the last photo is a graphic display of the size difference between a potato plant that came up two-and-a-half months ago and one that just got here