melons are amazing! four days after I took the first picture of my melon-baby and you can see that he’s almost doubled in size. and he sleeps through the night already, too!

I am the proud father of a brood of melons! every morning and every afternoon I spend some time with my melon pants, checking for female flowers and, when I find them, pollinating them. this is my firstborn! he’s growing rapidly and thankfully he’s already potty trained. I’ve already counted six other melons hidden among the leaves and vines and there will be many more in the next few weeks! octomom eat your heart out.

we’ve got big plans for this little plant, so make sure to send it some good vibes.

freshly harvested purple kohlrabi. one of tim’s favorite veggies. myself, I am ambivalent. they look cool, but I have not yet found the recipe that brings them to their higher purpose. anyone out there have any kohlrabi recipes they’d like to share?

these flowers share a large pot with daisies, snapdragons, lobelia, and dahlia. every morning I check these flowers, deadheading the faded blossoms and marveling at the tiny changes each new day brings. ants make their home in the humid shade of their leaves. occasional ladybugs appear.

don’t know if it’s the new mexico sun our the perfect placement of the plants, but the tomatoes are ripening up quick. tim ate one and says they’re a little tart, but boy oh boy do they look delicious. too bad this variety, the sunburst, is owned by the evil multinational corporation monsanto. grrrr.

when the growing energy starts moving, the garden changes dramatically. these chard were small and struggling with leaf miners a couple of days ago. cut to two days later and they’ve outgrown the miners and are absolutely gorgeous.

another strange and lovely flower that manages to thrive in the colorado desert. walking through the national monument, your mind constantly shifts from the enormous — the incredible geologic formations — and the tiny — these delicate, tenacious flowers. we were lucky to be there to see these blossoms while they were still soaking in the springtime.