As I said before, it's not only gardening season, but also harvesting season, the best season of the year if you ask me. This weekend was pretty tough, we had a lot of work, from morning till late evening, I haven't even had time to post. Today is a new day and I made some time to show you some photos of the garden I took on Saturday.
Tomatoes
Let's start with the queen of the garden! Tomatooooes! Who doesnt' love tomatoes!? I certainly do, can't live without them.
The size of the tomatoes are good, although some growing is still needed, but they are still green. One month I'd say and we get some nicely ripe tomatoes.
As I have mentioned before, we always have a few types, usually four or five. The first two photos are of the same type. This striped one is a new entry, actually we have no idea what type it is. The neighbor guy gave us some seeds at the beginning of the season, so we haven't seen the tomatoes yet, but so far so good, the tomatoes are looking good.
This is all tomato and it's not all as there's another one, half as big as this one, but those are on the ground.
Cucumbers
Cucumbers are ready to harvest already. The good thing about cucumbers is that the harvest period is two months, maybe three, so we have these little cuties constantly.
This is the longer one and actually it should be straight but it isn't. My dad told me not to take a photo of this one as it's not nice, but I strongly disagree. This is not a beauty or popularity contest, these are vegetables, so who cares if they are not perfect.
This is the small one, for pickles.
This is the one for salad. I put my hand next to it so you can have some clue how long one is, but this is not even the longest one.
This is the second lot of seedlings. The first one was damaged by snails pretty badly, so we needed some more. I bought seeds, lucky me I got some, even though it was already late as the seedling season was long over. Now these are growing nicely.
Pickles, with vinegar and horseradish.
Peppers
Peppers are still very small, but growing.
Squash
These are already ready to harvest and are not the only type. These are round and about the size of a football. Quite unusual, but rather delicious.
This is the other type, perfect for pottage.
Green Beans
The round type, my favorite. These are ready to be harvested.
Green beans, also the round type but this time it's dark green. It looks great, healthy, but I think next year I'm going to opt only for the light, yellow one as this is not as soft as the other one. The yellow type is easier to cook and more easier to digest. I don't really like this as the cooking time is longer.
Onions
These are next, we must harvest all as it's time. The more rain, the more danger for them, so next week I think it's going to be onion harvesting time. We don't have much this year, just as much as we need and learning from previous year's mistake, we are not going to store these for winter, rather eat all we can as there's a danger of rotting. Better use it now.
Celery
The celery is not fussy, growing nicely. We use both the green and the underground part and it looks like we're going to have plenty.
Beetroots
Last year we had a record harvest, which is rare as usually we get just a few. This year is not any better as we've got like six or eight, not more. I believe the soil is not suitable for growing beetroots. We still have some pickled ones from last year though.
Honeydew
I'm not sure if this is going to be green or yellow, when fully ripe, but the color counts less, the taste is the most important. I still have to wait a month to be able to enjoy it.
Cauliflower
This is a mystery for me and my dad as well. We've been struggling to grow cauliflower for years and all we got was big leaves each year and that's all. Therefore we tried with different types, hoping one may be suitable for this type of soil, but all in vain. Last year we got some seeds from the neighbor guy and were very good.
This year we bought some seeds and voila! Looks like these seeds are good as well as the little cauliflowers are growing nicely. We want to make some pickles and also good for vegetable soup. Obviously I have a bunch of cauliflower recipes but we don't have enough for everything, so I'm going to buy some and keep these for pickles.
Running Beans
These need a little time, one week maybe as are still green and need to turn yellow in order to be fully ripe. But there will be over 35C temperatures this week, so it's not going to be a problem.
Hokkaido Squash Or Red Kury Squash
This is a new entry as we've never had it before, so it's a surprise. You can read more about the use of it here. It's widely used though.
This is how things looked like in our garden on Saturday, 10th of July. If you liked my gardening report, please check back tomorrow to show you what's happened.
Thanks for reading my post.