So today I went out to the garden for the first time in a few days, and found many (read: 25!) tomatoes ripe and ready to be picked, which was fun (see my “today’s picks” photo on the sidebar–I’ll be updating it regularly, I hope).  After picking the tomatoes, I ventured over to the zucchini, where I found this:

Does anyone know what would cause this sort of thing? I noticed the other day while I was out there that the zucchini was looking a little dimpled on the end, and by today it was brown and withered… so sad. Now I have to wait for more.

On a related note, how does one tell when corn is ready to be picked? I have several ears growing, but I have no idea how to tell when they’re done. I’ll be doing some research on that today.