Let's take a look at the garden. It's been quite a hot summer so far, with several days reaching all the way up to 107! This week will be significantly cooler than that (but still pretty hot) which should provide some relief to these babies (I only need to be careful in case Mr. Jerry Brown decides to ration watering personal gardens.)
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| Lots of leaves! |
For being in such a small container, the zucchini plant is chugging along nicely. I think the abundant sunshine is the cause of it. None of the female flowers have opened yet, but I've been getting a few male flowers to open every few days.
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| A bright ray of sunshine |
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| Looks like the Medusa |
Once this starts producing, I'll have to get some panko to
deep fry them.
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| More sandwich ingredients! |
All of the tomato plants over in the blue tub have started to produce. The Big Beef (or is it Big Boy? all the large tomato varieties make me laugh) has produced about 2 decent sized tomatoes so far with another ripening up. This plant will likely produce all the way until October, unless the El Nino hits early.
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| Almost ripe! |
I picked the biggest tomato from that plant nearly a month ago. It weighed about 1/3rd of a pound and tasted amazing.
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| Biggest tomater so far |
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| Not the heaviest of tomatoes, but respectable |
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| LOOK AT THAT TOMATO! |
The cherry tomato plants have produced a small share of fruit so far. If they will be anything like the tomato plants I had
two years ago, I'm sure to expect many more tomatoes by September.
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| These actually formed when I cut the big tomato in half |
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| They like their new home |
The
new additions to the vineyard have adapted to their new home well. The key to keeping these new vines vigorous is consistent watering, some fertilizer, and training each vine up the appropriate stick (the sun likes to draw the vines onto sticks in neighboring buckets).
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| Almost as big as me! |
The Symphony vine I got
last year is much taller than it was last year. Aside from that, the sun has done quite a bit of damage to the clusters growing on it. I've had to cut off one that got completely dried out. From what I can see so far, there won't be enough grapes to make any wine. I'm optimistic that I'll be able to get some from the other vines next year to make an "estate blend".
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| Sour grapes! |
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