Thursday, July 25, 2019

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...

Sunday, July 14, 2019

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:

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

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.