Lots of tomatoes (cherries) and cucumbers
:
Some of these are the very first off the plants. The pink beefsteak on the left will need a day or two for ripening.
"First off the plants" is also true with the Lemon cucumbers. Often they are quite late altho I like them best while they are still green and before they look so much like a lemon. The Mediterranean-types (Muncher, here) are often harvested while they are tiny. I haven't found the need to do that and have been enjoying them and their American slicer neighbors for a week or so
. Now there are some Alibi pickling cubes which I don't really need, not being a pickler
.
Potatoes and beans! Green bush beans. They are
great numbers coming off the Jade bean plants! We froze quite a few but it will remain to be seen if DW has much interest in those thru the winter. She is very much a
fresh fruit and veggie person.
The potatoes are mostly Red LaSoda. They are supposed to be a midseason variety but are going down hard. I also haven't figured out if I'm growing a common soopermarket veggie with Red LaSoda. This is my first season with them and they have produced just fine! This, despite record-breaking early June heat which seemed really hard on the potato patch.
I didn't grow potatoes for about 25 or 30 years because they are so commonly and cheaply available. Then, curiosity got the best of me and I've enjoyed one new variety after another in recent years. I
suppose it's okay if I've worked around where I'm just back to what I could buy in the store. Having good success with a crop is important to me and I have them new and fresh at this time of year
. Purple Majesty and Purple Viking are also coming out of the garden. The Purple Viking is another very productive early variety for me. I wish shipping wasn't so high on seed potatoes but I continue to promise myself a late winter drive of only about 150 miles to avoid paying it
.
Steve