The Early girl tomatoes are starting to ripen. It has been a long wait, but I had my first toasted tomato this morning and it was awesome.
Here is one of the cukes. They are coming in fast and furious now.
This is a journal of my garden in 2008. There are gardening tips, interesting facts, links to recipes and more. I have early girl tomatoes, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, bitter gourd, winter melon, zucchini, onions, swiss chard, beets and more.
The first picture shows the garlic I planted in the fall. I have elephant garlic as well as a Thai variety.
Here are the onions. The first row was planted in the middle of April and the next two rows were planted 2 weeks and 4 weeks later, respectively. The first row are multiplier onions and the other rows are yellow onions. They were planted from sets and I plan to use some for green onions and let others mature.
The other rows are green and red romaine. They were bought at the Bradford greenhouses and transplanted on May 10th.
Here is the McIntosh tree. It was planted at least 20 years ago, but has been shaded from the north side for most of its life.
I pruned of a large branch this winter that blocked a lot of light from the lower branches. I also trimmed off many of the downward facing fruiting spurs. I am still waiting for flower buds; I may have been too drastic with the pruning.
Here is a close-up of the leaves. (McIntosh)