Fall garden update
Sorry for being MIA the last little while! I got caught up with finishing my Masters over the summer months (what a way to spend the summer!), and am finally kind of getting things back in order now that it’s finished… One of the things on my to-do list has been a long overdue garden update, so here it goes:
Firstly, I know some of you are have probably just been dying to know how Figgy did this year after the big chop (ie. cutting off the top foot of the stick that is my fig tree), so here Figgy is at what I would estimate his prime time of the season (all the leaves have now fallen, of course). I think the pruning really helped get things bushing out a bit more, so no figs again, but I think some progress was made. Note Figgy’s pruned top half (sitting on the ground by the pot) has been growing happily in water since the big chop.
The garden plot did quite well this year, although being on the edge of a forest, we had some significant loss to the wildlife who particularly liked the sicilian saucer tomatoes and the sunflowers (of the two that survived to blooming, this one was half eaten, and the other had the flower eaten right off!)
We grew five different varieties of tomatoes (Sicilian Saucer, Kootenai, Window Box Roma, Sunsugar, and Green Zebra), mixed bush beans, garlic, cucumbers, peas, basil, corn, jalapenos, sunflowers, and shallots. I know there are more photos that have probably ended up on Scott’s computer so I will try and track them down so I can do a full tomato review and post some more end of season shots. For now, here are some of what we harvested:
Late summer bounty:
Fall tomatoes ripening in the windowsill:
Beans with garlic and basil ready to hit the BBQ…yum!
All in all, a good season! But I still miss having a garden right in my backyard…maybe next year!
October 25th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Those sunsugars are tasty! Like candy.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Seriously, I think they’re the sweetest tomatoes I’ve ever had. I hope they ripen well in the window cause i have a whole box of ones I had to pick before it got too cold!
November 18th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Wow! What a lovely green-thumbed cousin I have. Have to try growing those tomatoes. Did you grow them from seed?
November 18th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Awww, shucks! No, we didn’t grow the tomatoes from seed (actually, I’ve never grown tomatoes from seed that I can recall, too short of growing seasons around here!), we actually cheated and bought the plant when it was already about a food and a half tall! It sure did great though, and made such tasty tomatoes!