So far I have a bumper crop of lettuce, which I keep thinking is about to bolt and peter out, but hasn’t actually done so. Also tons of herbs and chard. The kale and Asian greens are coming along nicely. I have harvested a few carrots, and will probably pull the garlic this week. ne melon is coming along so far, and I am hoping for more because the melon vines are chock-full of flowers. So are the cucumbers and squashes, but neither has produced anything yet. Tons of volunteer purslane. We have harvested a few cherry tomatoes so far, and one of the larger tomatoes looks like it will be ripe in the next few days. There are a fair number of green tomatoes on the vines, and we are eagerly awaiting their arrival.
We have two hedges of mint. I keep giving it away, both potted and in giant bunches, but there are still two hedges.
Next year I swear I will get an earlier start on rebuilding the other brick raised bed. And now that we have some actual topsoil in the side yard, I will plant less sun-hungry crops there and plant the peppers and eggplants in the raised beds in the sunnier backyard. They will be much happier there.
Right now is one of my favorite parts of the season - the part where we get to harvest a pint of raspberries every couple of days.
I managed to get three pea pods before they died.
Zucchini took over, but something started eating the blossoms and so far I’ve only harvested two. There are still three growing. My dumb self read up on how to trim back zucchini to allow light in and I think I murdered it.
My sweet pepper plant has blossoms, no fruit. They were caught in the shade of the zucchini, so hopefully they’re just delayed.
Tomatoes have rot, so I’m waiting for stuff to arrive so I can hopefully save some.
I have a bunch of itty bitty jalapenos, hopefully will be enough to start pulling in a week or two.
Green pepper has flowers, but then the flowers disappear.
Broccoli got hit with beetles.
The saving grace so far as been green beans. Granted, only three of the originally planted 5 seeds grew into anything, but I’ve had a fair amount of them.
Since this was my first year really planting veggies, while I am disappointed, I now have a starting point for next year (ie no damn zucchini).
All my other plants are okay. My datura bloomed spectacularly multiple times. Beetles have gotten to it over the past week, so I soaped down the leaves. I see a few more blossoms still coming in, so I’m crossing my fingers.
I wonder if the flowers (that don’t wind up producing fruit) perhaps are not being pollinated?
I have a bazillion bumblebees around, so I’m not sure. I’m not wondering if my little grey fluffy tailed friends or my wee chippy friends aren’t having fun in the garden. I do feel bad for whichever tried noshing on a jalapeno.
Glad this thread got bumped.
We just took down the snow peas. A couple of pounds of them. We planted six feet worth of pole beans that are just ending - we got 14 pounds, and they are filling up the freezer.
Great green leaf lettuce this year, very tasty.
We planted three Japanese eggplants, have gotten eight or nine beautiful ones, and they’re still growing. Best onions we’ve ever gotten. We have about a dozen drying outside and more ready to harvest.
One zucchini plant which has produced about a dozen and still going. One pattipan squash grown from seeds, just a few there. Four tomato plants - the early girl is producing like crazy, the others are good but not ripe yet.
And we have our volunteers. A butternut squash that grew out of the compost bin. And a forest of volunteer cherry tomatoes, only a few ripe as of yet, but more coming. I’ve got a bunch of recipes that use them stored up to try.
We’ve already given a bunch of vegetable away to friends who are now eagerly awaiting surplus tomatoes.
This has been one of the few years in which everything has worked. Might have been the late rains and moderate temperatures, and because we didn’t go away in the spring, thanks to the virus, and so things didn’t get away from us.