Garden update July

Garden season is truly here. M and L's favorite activity of the day must be picking tomatoes. There are a lot of them, mostly green but there are more ripe ones every day (if the rabbits and squirrels haven't eaten them). The cherry tomatoes are next to the patio, and thus easy to keep an eye on ...

while and Big Boys and Whoppers or whatever are in the back behind the shed. Here's a whopper from the other day:


The eggplants are really beautiful. I picked this one a few days ago but it really needed more time. It's still pretty (and as-yet uneaten).

There are peppers. L still had her cast on here (it came off more than a week ago).

And the free Jerusalem artichokes from the co-op (thanks Mollie!) are huge. Here M and A stand in front of some of them for scale.

We need to organize salsa fest in the next few weeks y'all as we're going to be inundated with tomatoes soon. I think we have a dozen ripening on the counter now.