From the garden, clockwise from top: a cucumber and three zucchini, Chocolate Cherry tomatoes, and Piennolo del Vesuvio tomatoes. We love the Chocolate Cherry tomatoes – they have good flavour, are a little crack-resistant in variable watering conditions, will ‘volunteer’ next year.
Pollen-dusted from earlier harvesting, a bee works one of the Purple Coneflowers in our flower patch.
One can grow a lot in a 20’ x 20’ space. Around the perimeter, clockwise from upper left.
Tomatoes – 3 varieties, and tomatillos, with basil underneath
Zucchini
Thyme
Some flowers (forget the variety)
Cucumbers (1 so far, 4 on the way)
Sunflowers
More sunflowers
Another tomato
Small evergreen tree
Another zuke
Squash
Nasturtiums and marigolds
Sage
Inside the perimeter, again clockwise from upper left
Haskap
Sunflowers and oregano
Tomatoes and hot peppers
Some dill
Still more tomatoes
The bare patch: just dug up the 48 garlic plants
Asparagus allowed to grow (we harvested about 10 lbs this spring)
Rhubarb
Todays’ late season bounty, before the late afternoon rain arrived.
This coneflower really stood out against the green background.
Have picked about 4 cups of Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes in the last few days. That’s on top of the 8? cups picked before this week. More are on the way, in varying stages of maturing and ripeness.
So good simply popped in my mouth – not all make it inside – in salads, baked in a little olive oil with garlic, rosemary, and pepper.
Yum.
We grow a few of many things in our small garden.
Todays’ harvest: jalapenos, ‘ugly’ tomatoes (which are volunteers from last years’ effort), Chocolate Cherry tomatoes, tomatillos (also volunteers), beans, a cayenne pepper, ground cherries. Also growing: rosemary, spearmint and peppermint, basil and Thai basil, sage.
May 2014. Pretty bare, lots of grass to mow. A little bitty haskap bush next to the stump of a Norway Maple we had removed.
First strawberry flower.
Bounty from our berry patch – two plus cups of strawberries and one of haskap, our third harvest of each. Very tasty and enough to freeze for later.
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