Garden update
Just a brief post to let you know what is happening in the veggie garden right now (sorry, no pictures - maybe I'll add them to this post on the weekend):
- tomato plants are big and quite full of tomatoes, but still green; we hope they ripen before it gets cold
- zucchini plants are giving us a few zucchinis; not many, but just enough
- our round squash plant (we're not sure if it is pumpkin or round zucchini or what) is producing round green balls again and they are growing like crazy each day (this is a volunteer, a bird-deposited plant)
- cucumber plants are slowing down finally after we were picking a few big ones every couple of days for the past month
- lettuce finally gave up; but I just planted a flat in the greenhouse, so we have some in winter, I hope (it's an experment)
- speaking of the greenhouse, I had moved our nasubi (Japanese eggplant) into pots in good compost and put them into the greenhouse, as they were looking quite sad outside in the garden especially during our cooler nights lately; now they are green and happy and we have some blossoms on them that hopefully will mature into small nasu, perfect for a stirfry :)
- our sweet pepper plant's remaining peppers have turned bright red
- yellow beans are done too, but freezer is full of bags of beans
- green onions I plants a month or so ago are small but growing (I think)
- winter veggies (kale, broccoli) are growing and happy, except being eaten a bit by some bugs
- we have leeks sprouting up (after I thought I had killed them) and getting big
- herbs are doing well, especially our basil; just have to use more herbs in cooking and teas
- fruit: peaches are picked and jam made and some frozen, apples picked and applesauce made, grapes are ripening for making jam soon, some pears picked and in the basement ripening, others still on the tree, figs are almost finished (the baby figs on there won't ripen before winter), raspberries are now producing on the new canes (we just planted them this spring)
That's about it, although I've probably forgotten a few things. It's great having your own fruit and vegetables, especially since you know that nothing bad has been sprayed on them. :)
Next year I'm planning to have even more!
