Yummy Harvest

Harvest: 14 yellow pear tomatoes, 1 red grape tomato, 6oz kale, 6oz arugula, 1 burgess butter cup winter squash, and 1 baby oxheart carrot.

Wild green onions

Mmmm wild onions all over the yard.

Harvest: 3 oz wild green onions, 2oz green deer tongue lettuce, 2 baby oxheart carrots, and 6 yellow pear tomatoes.

Kale Harvest

Harvest: 6oz kale and 2oz deer tongue lettuce.

Homegrown Vegetables

Garden looks good. Very lush. I feel lucky to eat fresh homegrown vegetables.

Harvest: 1 lemon boy tomato, 11 yellow pear tomatoes, 1 bambino hybrid eggplant, 1 scarlet globe radish, 4oz of red russian kale, and 10oz mix of mibuna asian mustard greens, deer tongue lettuce, tom thumb lettuce, and arugula.

Garden Salad

Harvest: 7 yellow pear tomatoes, 2 scarlet globe radish, and 6oz mix of mibuna asian mustard greens, deer tongue lettuce, tom thumb lettuce, red russian kale, and arugula.

Tomatoes and Greens

Harvest: 10 yellow pear tomatoes, 1 lemon boy tomato, 1 baby oxheart carrot, 1 scarlet globe radish, and 3oz mix of mibuna asian mustard greens, deer tongue lettuce, tom thumb lettuce, and arugula.

Salad Spinner

Nothing harvested today.

Though I did purchase a large salad spinner (10.5" in diameter) -- should come in handy with all the greens.

Fresh Salad

One of my favorite things about having a garden is being able to make a fresh salad at any time.

Harvest: 2 red grape tomatoes, 1 scarlet globe radish, and 3oz mix of arugula, deer tongue lettuce, and tom thumb lettuce.

Lots o' Greens

Lots of greens today.

Fresh salad for lunch - yum!

Harvest: 20 yellow pear tomatoes, 6 red grape tomatoes, 1 bambino hybrid eggplant, 2 scarlet globe radishes, and 10oz of a mix of arugula, deer tongue lettuce, tom thumb lettuce, and mibuna asian mustard greens.

Spinach

This weekend is time to plant spinach in Maryland.

Should complement my arugula, deer tongue lettuce, and tom thumb lettuce nicely.

Of the greens so far, I think my favorite is the deer tongue lettuce.

Harvest: 1 lemon boy tomato.

Peaceful Day

Tropical Storm Hanna is long gone and today another storm took her place. Constant rain but thankfully little wind.

The winter squash plants keep getting larger and larger. One already has a blossom!

The insects seem to have left and my arugula and radishes appear to have recovered nicely.

If the latest science is correct, then the effort those plants had to spend warding off the bugs means they will be more nutritious!

Nothing to harvest today.

After the Storm

Tropical Storm Hanna left us about 2 inches of rain and minimal damage in our garden.

A few tomatoes were ruined and a muskmelon was split open.

Eggplant, peppers and cucumbers look to be fine.

Must remember to harvest before the storm.

Harvest: 1 cucumber, 3 Radiator Ray's Mortgage Lifter tomatoes, 5 lemon boy tomatoes, 4 red grape tomatoes, 21 yellow pear tomatoes, 1 superstar muskmelon (cantelope), 2 scarlet globe radishes, 3oz of a mix of arugula, deer tongue lettuce, and tom thumb lettuce.

More Bugs

What are some organic ways to ward off pests? Particularly flying insects off of arugula and radishes.

Our patience with our bambino hybrid eggplant has been rewarded with 7 or 8 eggplants coming on this week -- more than twice what we have harvested all summer!

Bright Blue Skies

Three straight days of grey skies and endless rain have given way to bright blue skies.

Peppery radishes ripe for the picking.

An abundance of arugula and deer tongue lettuce.

Delicate carrot tops hint at the beauty below.

Bugs still swarming the arugula and radishes.

Harvest: 5 red grape tomatoes, 8 yellow pear tomatoes, 6oz of a mix of arugula, deer tongue lettuce, tom thumb lettuce, and mibuna asian mustard greens.

Quiet Harvest

Nothing to harvest today.

Tomatoes look good.

Much of the arugula eaten by bugs.

Muskmelons and watermelons don't seem to be getting any larger.

It seems the summer garden is coming to a close.