A quick update on our garden progress! The pic above represents what has been coming in for a couple weeks now.
Three different types of tomatoes: Yellow Gooseberry, San Marzano and Brandywine. These just started ripening, so we finally have some color in our garden! There are about 18-20 of the little yellows in that bowl, with several more just around the corner for picking. The San Marzano's are coming in (color) about two at a time, so not sure if there's any chance we'll be using those for canning (sauce) as we'd thought. The Brandywine's are so big and have taken on such peculiar shapes, but they are so, so tasty! There are several more of each just waiting to turn out there, and it would certainly be nice if they all - or, most - turned at once.
Our funny little peppers. We pulled a couple banana's a few weeks back (one of which was the size it should be), and a couple little greens. That green one is twice as big as the two still out on the vine. I think we need deeper soil next year (yes, dear).
Ah, the stars of the show! This zucchini is a great example of the 4 or 5 we've already plucked. So yellow, so shiney, so yummy!Unfortunately, I didn't get a pic of the yellow pole beans I picked and cooked up just the other night. We had them roasted with some green ones we got in our farm share, and ours were certainly the tastier of the two!
Other than that, we're just keeping our fingers crossed for some potatoes and carrots (neither of which we feel comfortable uprooting yet, to check progress). They've each got some beautiful green up top, so here's hoping. Our Winter squash plants all died, and we're not sure why. I shouldn't say all, because there are two that Michael separated from the batch in the box and planted in the ground, and they seem to be thriving. We'll see if we get anything. Of course, we'll also have another member of the family by then!
2 comments:
"The Brandywine's are so big and have taken on such peculiar shapes"
Interesting you should say that. The big thing about growing your own is discovering that homegrown has a character that storebought cannot have. We're all so used to seeing our food perfect and unblemished- as if the tomato you got at the store was punched out of a die instead of picked!
Those are some awesome tomatos- wiki sez the Brandywines are ready to go in 80-100 days, so you're having remarkable success there!
As for the Marzanos wiki sez they are indeterminate so it's not much of a surprise that you are only getting a meal's worth at a time- though it also says they are the best in the world.
The Yellow Gooseberries sound like something I might want to try next year- are the plants themselves big or small?
I'm actually having the same issues you are with the peppas- I'm pretty sure it's more to do with our pleasantly cool summer than soil depth- peppers really only do well where it's hot out.
Anyway, awesome job!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marzano_tomato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandywine_(tomato)
Absolutely fabulous! What a wonderful bounty. We've had about three Romas now, too... in fact two of them are in a pot of simmering homemade spaghetti sauce right now! I ran out of lettuce for our tacos last night, but saved the day by clipping baby spinach off the three plants we had that actually grew (no thanks to that darn chipmunk). Looks great, Beth!
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