What's growing? Everything! Well, almost everything. Peppers are starting to mature and we are eating them as we need. If we keep them on the vine, they will ripen to red, which is fine by me.
We have tons of green tomatos on the vine. A very few have started blushing red. One cherry tomato plant (a volunteer) has given us our first two ripe tomatos!
Speaking of volunteers, the sunflowers are a delight! I might actually plant them on purpose next year. The big blooms provide the perfect playground for us to observe goldfinches, cardinals, and bees.
Every day or so I pick a handful of green beans. Beans are one of my very favorite veggies and I can't help but eat a lot of them raw. We are leaving the rest of the dragon tongue on the vine to dry out for dry beans. I've never done this before and hope it works out!
Only one broccoli plant has a broccoli head.
And one has this:
Not a broccoli. Maybe cauliflower? Except we started these all from a single seed packet and I didn't intend to plant any cauliflower. Hmmm...
We have eaten a few servings of kale from the forest that is happy along the fence. Swiss chard is almost ready for picking too.
Blueberries didn't like the cool weather and dropped most of their berries. We were able to eat a few ripe ones, but only maybe 10 in all. Boo.
Then there's the squash. We started with just four mounds and they have now taken over a huge chunk of the garden. The golden nugget variety has lots of fruit, some of which is almost ripe, I think. (Never grown it so I'm not sure.)
We were calling the hokkaido blue variety a bust until today when I saw these squashlings.
I thought I could illustrate the size of the squash monster by placing our little squash princess in the picture.
We tapped the rain barrel as we watered this evening. I am hoping for a storm tomorrow to soak the plants and refill our barrel.
What's growing in your garden?