Saturday, August 14, 2010

Tomatoes, finally.

We did get to pick one tomato on the 5th of August.  It was a Siberia.  The Siberia have given us about 6 more since then. Hubby says they are good, one the small size (like a really big cherry tomato) not very sweet but very tomatoey.

The rest of the plants are finally going from green/white to a yellowy color and many are becoming very red.

I took photos a few days apart over the last week or so that i haven't made any entries:



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These i picked on the 12th

I got to have the little pear tomato, it was a bit mealy, but it has been dry. The flavor was nice.

I have gotten a few more tomatoes since then

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The corn is continuing to be motivated
Some slender ears, they have gotten a bit fatter since this picture was taken

.The purple tomatillos have put out a number of berries

The ornamental eggplant is looking interesting

The big pumpkin is getting very orange.  Not bd for my first pumpkin...and the accidental one that it is. The other two are looking fine, the middle sized one is beginning to ripen as well.

I discovered that i do have a big birdhouse gourd. It is buried in a tangle of vines and has to be close to 2' tall

The squashes are looking nice and it looks like i will have a plentiful harvest of them. The Carnival (pictured) has at least 6 that i can see and the Long Island Cheese is working on at least 4.
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I didn't photo any cucumbers, but we are averaging at least one a day. Not enough to do anything with, but perfect for an occasional snack.  I will plant more next year, even though the production level is not overwhelming- i want to try some cucumber recipes with the extras.

The watermelon has been a toss-up.  I had some nice Pony Yellow forming but they got to Candlepin bowling ball size and then cracked in half.  I do have one round melon still going strong, its almost standard bowling ball size now, but i'm not sure which variety it belongs to.  The oval watermelon is still growing nice. I checked them for cracking yesterday and all seems well so far.
I wonder if i will be able to figure out when they are ripe enough to pick.
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Shiso
Purple podded green beans in flower
The purple beans are taking their sweet time, but the Provider beans are still going,  slowly but i can get about a pound every 4 days.

I think my "Venous Orange" is trying to flower.  No scent so far,  which is  disappointing.


Back view of garden.  The weeds are taking over.  I simply can't keep up at this point.


Oh, and this is what Job's Tears plant looks like as its going to work on making seeds
I hope i get enough seed to replant next year and get some for beading projects.

I saw one sweet pepper forming, its not tiny anymore.  I saw some of the hot peppers flowering,  no eggplant yet.  The summer squashes are still going, the herbs are doing great. I pulled a few more beets but i'm leaving the carrots a little longer.  The melon leaves are turning a bit yellow, not sure if this is disease or dryness. 

So that is the rundown to catch up.

4 comments:

Lexa said...

Wow! I don't know ehere to start. Great looking garden. Don't let those few weeds get you down. You are on the cusp of an amazing harvest! With my passion for squash, I have to say your pumpikin is a beauty! And kudos to all those "hot weather" plants like watermelon, that you are growing so successfully in Maine. Thanks so much for the tour. Its the next best thing to getting to walk through it in person!

icebear said...

Thanks! Its been so great to have a large enough garden to play around with some different things this year.
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Faith said...

I think at this time of year, weeds always make headway. It's so hard to keep up on them when everything else comes due.

I am loving the mulch we put down. I hope to invest in a stack of straw bales this fall, so all we have to do in the spring is drop in some plants. I hope, i hope...

Your garden looks amazing. And I love the long view shots. After seeing your place on Google maps, I can picture it perfectly now.

~Faith

icebear said...

the overview really does help, i can make more sense of yours too now that i have seen the google pic of it.