Garden Update - July

It occurred to me as I was looking at my original garden post that the whole thing has just gone gangbusters in the last month. Here's how things looked in early June:

This is the picture I took this morning:

The zucchini have been particularly productive. I've already gotten more than 30 from three plants. Some of the tomatoes are just starting to ripen. The Super Sweet 100s were the first, but I tend to snack on them while I'm working on the rest of the garden, so often they don't make it to the house.

Here's the rest of the garden tour:

 The extremely prolific zucchini. 

 

Black Knight Eggplant. Haven't harvested any yet, but they're on their way. 

 

California Wonder Peppers. 

Hot Pepper.

 

Delicata Squash. 

Celebrity Tomatoes. These are pretty big and I harvested the first one yesterday. 

Mucho Nacho Jalapenos. I've harvested six so far and they aren't very hot, but are great on the grill stuffed with cheese (cut the top off, core and stuff it, and then put a skewer through it lengthwise to keep them from falling apart). 

 

 Super Sweet 100s. Perfect garden snack!

 White Eggplant. I harvested the first three on Wednesday and they were delicious!

 

Soybeans. These won't be ready for another six weeks or so, but we're looking forward to some garden fresh edamame. 

This is a garden bed the previous owners had on the side of the house. It gets partial shade so it's great for carrots, lettuce, parsley, dill, onions and rosemary. 

And finally, the potted specialty herbs that will eventually make their home on our kitchen window sill. From L to R: lemon thyme, barbecue rosemary, tuscan blue rosemary and pesto basil.

The Garden Grows!

How did we spend our second weekend of home ownership? Killing grass. With the 8,000,000 things on our to do list, this one had to be in the top five so that I could plant a vegetable garden.

So far, it's my favorite part of the house. I've been spending at least an hour a day back there weeding and feeding the little buggers. Most of the plants went in mid-April, died, and were replaced with bigger/harder to kill plants mid-May. Lesson learned: the mulch should not touch the stem of the plant.

The first hints of produce are starting to arrive.

Zucchini

Super Sweet 100 Tomatoes

Celebrity Tomatoes

San Marzano Tomatoes

Habernero Pepper

Romaine and Mesculan  Lettuce (from seed)

Three varieties of sage (small one to the left is sprouted from seed)

Parsley (from seed)

We also ended up with some "volunteer" plants that grew out of our compost. I know that this is some type of squash, but have not yet determined the type. 

 I've also started some container herbs which will eventually be moved to the kitchen window sill so we can use them through the winter.

From left to right: lemon basil, tuscan blue rosemary, barbecue rosemary and lemon thyme.

We're still waiting on some of our other veggies to start showing fruit. We've got: 

Better Boy Tomatoes

Sugary Tomatoes

Yellow Pear Tomatoes

Mucho Nacho Jalapenos

California Wonder Bell Peppers

Sweet Red Bell Peppers

Carnival Mix Bell Peppers

Black Beauty Eggplant

White Eggplant

Nantes Carrots

Kaleidoscope Mix Carrots

Fingers crossed that everything survives the bunny family that lives in our yard!