Summer summary

Summer's over. The tomatoes and the beans were a success. The big disappointment: Eggplant. A lesser disappointment: Squash.
I have a good supply of tomato sauce in the freezer, and here is a batch about to be made:

Frozen green beens, too, fill our freezer. My squash is waiting around, looking like mutant specimens:

In the greenhouse I am experimenting with broccoli and beets, still at young sprouts stage. There is still a bit of chard, some bok choi, some arugola, and quite a bit of basil growing. We'll see if the broccoli and the beets will bear fruit.

Garden update

Except for the eggplants, the garden is doing well. Beans are producing well. I have harvested over 3 kg, and they are still going strong.

The red chard has produced well, and is still producing. Some plants have gone to seed, so I will have them to plant again.

The two pepper plants have produced plenty, and are still producing. I have pickled two jars of them.

Zucchini, light green and dark green, are also prolific:

The heirloom tomatoes are blushing:

I am satisfied with my summer produce.

Tomatoes

My tomatoes are coming along. Some (the small tomatoes) are getting a bit of blush,

and the heirloom tomatoes are getting bigger, but are far from their eventual sizes:

And here are the first green beans:

My eggplant are suffering from a major aphid infestation. I have sprayed them three times with insecticidal soap. The flowers keep coming off. All else is well...

Garden update

Back from my trip I found my garden in good shape. The friend who looked after it had harvested nothing, and I found my snap peas past their prime. I harvested them anyway, and we have enjoyed a few meals with peas as side dish.
The fava beans gave me the seeds for next season.
I also harvested four long yellow peppers:

which I will fry with yellow potatoes and a few snap peas for a delightful side dish tonight.

The tomatoes are growing and promise to yield well:

Garden

I was uprooting some peas and here is what I found: two spherical globs about the size of a hazelnut attached to the root. They look like brain material, a pea-root brain, sort of...

I have done some searching but have found nothing yet.

Update

Today I planted some radishes and more snap peas. The fava beans are growing.

Update

The peach trees, mother and daughter, are in glorious flower. Here is the young one:






















The fava beans in the greenhouse are sprouting:
and the seedlings are incubating:

Peas. Mesclun, Mache; Apricot

All in soil, today. Snap peas in the west half of the window garden; snow peas in the other half. Mache is in the green pot next to the greenhouse, and to its right mesclun in the red pot.
The apricot tree is in blossom:

Fava beans

Today I planted fava beans in the two largest containers in the greenhouse.

Bok Choy, Chard, Basil planted

A beautiful day today, just right for starting some crops. Done.

Long Time

Today I grafted a scion (name forgotten) onto my volunteer apple tree. I had already grafted a scion of the same variety onto a branch. If it takes, the whole tree will be this variety. An L tree. Clear, right? Still a bit off, like my tree.