Above: Lemon Tomato and Cherry Tomato plants, parsley lines the front.After several weeks of warm to hot temperatures, many trips around the garden with the watering can, and selective weeding... we have food! I can't explain how gratifying it is to have salads on the table each night, comprised entirely of greens from our own garden. We've been eating a lot of chard as that has taken off and seems to practically grow over night. Sauteed with garlic and olive oil, thrown into scrambled eggs with some delicious cheese, and soon to be auditioned in a frittata or quiche... it's good stuff.
I'm still babying my tomato plants (I have what some might deem as "too many" at a total count of, um, 9 plants...). But, I hope that come late August, I'll be sweating over pots of tomato sauce seasoned by our own basil and oregano.
Nasty little green wormy things ate our kale leaves (center row) after our first harvest! They got onto the broccoli leaves, too (left row), but didn't touch the lettuce or the beans. Hmmm.
Lemon verbena and cucumbers in the back left corner; sunflowers growing above everything else with a few corn stalks and copious amounts of swiss chard. In the front left-right: rosemary, oregano, thyme, basil and teeny purple basil in the lower right corner.
Tomato sauce land. L-R: Home Depot Celebrity start, and 6 of my own plants started from seedlings... look who's winning!!!
Squash: yellow summer, Amish Pie pumpkins, Sugar Pie pumpkins. Mmm. Pie from scratch. I can already smell October... squash with a little cinnamon and butter baking in the oven...
