Here's one of the two plum bushes. Not much to speak of yet - give 'em a few years and hopefully they'll gain some real height!
Almost every tomato plant has fruit on it now (uh oh - what's with those curled leaves in the foreground?!)
This one lost it's tag early on....I'm not sure what it is, but it's the biggest tomato I've got so far. I'd guess it's some sort of beefsteak or Aunt Ruby's Green Giant...
While some of the leeks are really scrawny...
...most have gotten some serious heft to them! Yum!
While the neighboring town of Ravenna may be known for it's annual Balloonaffair, my tomatillo bush looks like it's competing - it really does look like it has a bunch of hot air balloons hanging from it! So far most of these puffy sacks having scrawny little green-tomato-like tomatillo fruits in them. Over the next couple of months those tomatillo fruits are going to swell to the point of rupturing the "balloons" - and then we'll be trying some cooked tomatillo salsa!
The first round of cilantro has gone to seed. These plants are covered in both blooms AND little coriander seeds! I should've started the next round of cilantro sooner - it's almost salsa time, and I'm out of cilantro!
The Niro di Toscana kale sure looks cool!
Check out the funky variegated pattypan squash... So far I've had one of these, and one white/pale colored one.
While the eggplant leaves and even blooms are looking really rough from all the flea beetle attacks, the plants ARE blooming, and there's even some small fruits on them now!
The cucumbers are starting to produce...check out an Asian Express...
And this stubbier guy is more for pickling than slicing on to salads.
Who would've guessed I'd be able to grow GRAPES!??!
The peppers are starting to form - both in sweet...
...and HOT varieties!
I didn't grow as much swiss chard this year. Even if I don't eat a ton of it, you can't knock it for the bright yellow...
...and firey red-orange colors it adds to the garden!
Maybe it's been too cold or damp, but many of the baby squash have just rotted off this year. Let's hope this batch does better!
Check out the size of the biggest pumpkin in the garden!
And I think this guy here is a 2-person serving size spaghetti squash. This variety of spaghetti squash did GREAT last year!
Uh oh - we will now be eating cucumbers for breakfast, lunch, dinner AND dessert! This is just one picking!
Oh, and here's that pale pattypan...
Yup, the garden's really cranking out the food now!
1 comment:
We've been getting suggestions to grow grapes, but I'm not sure of it. How has it gone with yours so far? When did you plant them? How did long did it take to get a harvest?
Everything looks amazing out there. Even your cilantro which looks exactly like my big bolted jerk cilantro. Good think it's pretty
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