Sun Gold are the BEST cherry tomatoes ever! These particular ones are a bit small. Just an experiment really. Started them from seed with my 4th graders and they grew on a classroom window sill. Now they receive only a few hours of sun a day but yet...tomatoes!
In the garden Glacier tomatoes are the first to be ripe and picked and they were delicious. A bit small but so good. I love these too because they are the perfect size for a single portion of bruchetta or in a salad or whatever. But not big enough for a tomato sandwich really. To make the BEST tomato sandwich you need a Jersey tomato. I'm not kidding! But if you can't get a fresh, ripe Jersey tomato then we'll just have to settle for whatever tomato varieties are in our garden or at our local farmer's market. They will be delicious! May not quite be a Jersey tomato but delicious just the same.
Dug my first potatoes today. Yukon Golds were a good size, the Rose fingerlings were small. Onions and shallots are starting to flop over. We've been eating the onions for a while. Garlic is harvested. Bottom leaves were turning yellow and brown. Have had a few eggplants and they've been delicious and lots of zucchini and yellow squashes. Basil is finally looking and tasting good. It took a while for those plants to come back. They were looking so awful for so long!
Fall plantings of greens and some root veggies are in about 2 weeks now and some are doing great. I lightly covered them with a straw mulch and have been watering them. I covered the lettuce seedlings with a shade cloth as well as the mulch and they look great too. Radishes as always are struggling. Flea beetles and slugs. Same problems as in spring. Cukes are coming finally! It's the 4th try and putting them under row cover seems to have helped. Some pumpkins look great some have been hit with something. I'm assuming it's from those dang cucumber beetles. That bacteria wilt. Scallions, lettuce, beets, chard, kale, lettuce, carrots, herbs, zucchini, yellow squash, garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant...all have been wonderful. Beans are almost in flower. I planted them late. Peas, asparagus, radishes, and spinach have come and gone. Peas were delicious. Corn and pumpkins are growing.
Gardens are nice. They are nice to putter in. They are nice to look at. And they are nice to eat delicious food from. As the saying goes, "Gardens make the world fresh and clean." AHS
May your August garden be as good as or better than your July garden,
Mary
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