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: