Lettuce seed heads full of aphids

Dang, the backyard lettuce seed heads are full of aphids, so I might just not collect any lettuce seeds this year.

GA: Watermelon harvested! Delicious!

It wasn't huge -- the size of a large grapefruit -- but it was tasty!  There were quite a few seeds, but they were very edible too -- crunchy and inoffensive.

I had waited until the tendrils at the top where it connected to the vine had dried all up.  The stem itself was a bit dehydrated but not brown.  And it was perfectly ripe.

One more awaits harvesting.

GA: Caterpillar at top of an corn ear

A plump beige/grey caterpillar was at the top of one of the ears of corn I harvested today.  The rest of the ear was perfectly fine though, so just removed the damaged part and ate the rest.

Potato harvest in yard -- north of the broccoli

Today was part deux of reclaiming the central part of the yard for the dogs!  So I pulled the rest of the potatoes -- these ones being from north of the broccoli.  The plants had long since flopped, but were very green, so I'm sure if I had left them in longer, the smaller ones would have kept growing, but that was not the priority this year.

A good harvest from that patch!  Many nice big ones!  These were Kennebecs.  They did at least as well as, maybe even better than, the AC Chaleurs.  So, I will definitely grow both of these varieties again in future.

Re-reading my note from the spring -- I had done the following experiment:  "The experiment is that in each type's northerm-most row, I added 1 Tbsp alfalfa (in addition to the above amendments)."  Well, ha!  I completely forgot about that, and have no idea how the northern-most rows did.  Oh well! :D