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.
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
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.
Our started vegetable plants await planting. Low temperatures during several upcoming nights come uncomfortably close to freezing so we are holding off. For now, we bring them out during the day to harden them off.
The rosemary (upper centre) will stay in its pot as will the lemongrass (upper right).
The three Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes we planted have been more successful than we anticipated. We have picked more than a dozen pints’ worth so far and have many more pints’ worth on the way.
WordPress is not allowing me to upload the photo. Imagine a jungle of three plants, six feet tall by six feet wide. Imagine crawling on elbows and knees into the jungle, looking for ripe tomatoes. This is the happy problem we have.
Twenty minutes’ time yielded this bounty from the Chocolate Cherry Tomato patch.
Cherry tomatoes, in bloom and fruiting.
A very hard freeze is predicted so Faye cleaned up the vegetable garden today. Clockwise from upper left: Tomatoes; tomatillos; honey (not ours – locally sourced); home canned applesauce (not our apples though locally sourced); not quite ripe Chocolate Cherry tomatoes; little bitty poblanos; and jalapenos.
This tomato harvester awaits its crew before making the last few rounds of this field.
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