Finally I am eating the fruits of my labor - literally - I have been eating the apples from my trees I planted only five months ago! This is actually the FIRST apple I ate on May 1st. The branch was bending dut to the wieght of three little apples so I picked one and at it. Notice it is smaller then the tennis ball! The apples are much bigger now and much better tasting.
There is no button that pops out of your apples or other fruits or veggies when they are ready to eat like on the butterball turkey. You just have to be adventuresome and pick one and taste it! If it's really bad toss it in the compost bin!
Here's my latest pride and joy - a 15 inch long Armenian cucumber! and boy is it tasty! The vines are covered with blossoms and little cukes the size of my pinky finger. I was warned not to plant too many of these! It is interesting how the different garden beds are actually performing. The cukes I planted in the back bed are not doing much at all. But the ones in front have really taken off!
Tomatoes are doing just OK - mine are mostly either cherry or grape tomatoes and there are lots of green ones. I picked a few of what I thought were red ones and they were not quite ready yet. I am trying to beat the birds to the ripe tomoatoes as I keep finding some on the ground all broken open.
I am kind of worried about the eggplants - lots of blooms - no eggplants yet. I have lots of bees and butterflies for pollinating so I am not sure what's up!
Pepper plants all look great and are filled with small peppers. I have red, green, yellow and a chocolate pepper (kind of brownish - an heirloom) - all sweet peppers. I loved roasted peppers and stuffed peppers so I will be sure to enjoy these.
My watermelon seeds sprouted right away and are grown like crazy - I should have watermelon by August!
Now all I have to do is keep all the plants happy over the summer. We have been blessed with temps under 100 and partyly cloudy skies lately so that is good for the plants I stroll through the garden daily checking for new veggies and seeing if they need water. The joy I get from discovering a new veggie ready to pick and eat totally outweighs the sweet and time it took to get the bed planted.
How is your garden doing? I would love to hear from you!
Happy Digging
The Garden Goddess, Doreen
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2 comments:
I am growing herbs quite well on my patio. Next year I'd like to investigate growing cherry tomatoes. I seem to recall that the last time I experimented with tomatoes that it was easier to grow the cherry variety than regular tomatoes. I am envious of your yummy cucumber!
Yes Cherry tomatoes are the easiest to grow IMHO. Some varieties will grow and produce tomatoes all year long!
I finaly got 2 italian eggplants ( the long skinny kind) off my plant today - time to fire up the grill and roast them!
Sorry I will not be at the Sustainability Group meeting this week or I would bring you a cucumber!
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