Yet another garden update

A random closeup shot of ripe edamame on the plant.
Here are the fall greens that are coming along nicely. There is arugula, lettuce, rapini, and pak choi. They sure are doing a lot better than the same seeds in the spring.
Sad looking tomato plants in the topsy-turvy that are somehow producing tomatoes.
The first melon. I have high hopes for at least the flavor of these melons if not the quantity.
Harvest of the day. Broccoli, a couple small bell peppers that have blemishes, edamame, and a couple red popper peppers. I tried one of the red poppers and it just tasted like a red bell pepper to me.
The garlic and onions have been curing/drying in the garage for the past few weeks are done now.
Here's what they look like after the tops were cut off and the dirt gently brushed off. Almost two pounds of garlic. Two pounds of red onions, and almost 5 pounds of yellow onions.
Here is the garden during a downpour. I took this moments before it started hailing. There was a little bit of hail damage on the baby greens, but I think they'll be ok.

The next day I took a look at one of the oldest ears of corn and realized that it was borderline overly ripe. Looking at a couple of other ears, they looked ready to pick also. These ears almost look respectably sized, but it turns out there is a lot of empty space inside those husks. Some of the ears clearly didn't get pollinated as well as they could have been, even though I manually pollinated all the ears for the first few days that each ear emerged.

Here is what they look like inside. Hmm...I've seen bigger ears of corn. On the other hand, the reviews came back overwhelmingly positive for the flavor and texture.

After another rainstorm, I looked at the corn and found that the bean plants have broken the tops of some of the corn plants over. This 3-sisters thing is a terrible idea. I don't know what those indians were thinking. If I ever grow corn again, I will not be growing it together with climbing beans. Its only the top foot or so that is bent over, so hopefully it won't stunt the rest of the corn ears that are growing. These rainy days have been pretty common lately. In the last 17 days it has rained 4.79 inches. In the previous 60 days before that it rained 2.02 inches. On the one hand, I haven't had to water the garden at all in the last couple weeks, but on the other hand, yesterday I had to mow my lawn for the first time in literally two months.

Random Garden Stuff

Yeah, I don't know about this whole three sisters thing. Either the indians had way better corn than I do or they had way worse beans than I do. Note that all four bean plants in this cluster of corn have found their way to the top of the plant and now don't have any idea what to do. Since I don't have anymore long poles or branches, I don't know what to do either. Unfortunately, these bean plants seem more interested in growing long rather than making beans. This variety of beans hasn't made a single one yet!

On the other hand, the corn production is starting too look up. Even though the plants didn't grow very high, they all have corn on them and some are starting to get to a size that makes me think they might actually end up usable.
Waiting for peppers to ripen is painfully slow. Hurry up already. they've looked about the same for weeks now. Actually, thats not quite true. You can see the very tip of one of the cayenne peppers starting to turn red.
I don't think I've really had any good pictures of the asparagus so I figured I'd take a couple. There are 4 or 5 plants crammed in along the fence. Some are doing better than others. Note the thick clump of asparagus about a foot off the ground most of the way towards the left side. That is about 8-10 mini stalks of asparagus from the same plant, but none have gotten more than about 18" high.
Most of the other asparagus is doing better than that. They keep sending stalks up every once in a while. Is August the time for asparagus to be sprouting? This plant seems to think so.
The day's harvest. Several cukes, a small amount of green beans (from a different variety than the one shown in the first picture), a bunch of micro-greens (AKA thinnings from the fall seeding), and about a 1/4 lb of edamame. I wasn't really sure when to harvest them, but some of the pods were looking awfully plump, so I figured I should pick them before they get over-ripe.
I don't know why this picture showed up at the bottom. It should be up with the other bean picture, but its a pain to move it at this point, so I'm leaving it here. I knew this patch of corn wasn't doing well, so I took the two 8' poles that I used for tomato stakes last year and leaned them up against the garage, training the beans up them. The beans seemed pretty happy about that.