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| beans, tomatoes, chili |
The small tomatoes continue to come in, not as heavy as at the beginning of the summer, but still respectable harvests. The larger tomatoes, Black from Tula, Amish Paste, Italian Heirloom come one or two at a time, along with some round red and paste volunteers. The patch of yellow wax beans are going strong and a trickle of green chili is coming in.
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| eggplant twins |
This time of year often brings odd and deformed squash, but this week it was a twin eggplant.
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| Squash and eggplants |
This week the squash were not as prolific, but the eggplants gave a good harvest.
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| Butterfly on small sunflowers |
The are tons of bees, yellow jackets and flies, with a few butterflies around
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| tromboncinno squash |
Here are two of the Tromboncinno squash on the greenhouse frame. One is now about 40 inches long, the other one is longer and has touched the ground and is now growing in a curve. I'm leaving these for winter squash. I have several more; some are coiled up like snakes. With all the leaves it is hard to get pictures of some of them.
It all looks beautiful! What variety are your white eggplants? I have a white one called Casper and they don't seem to get very big.The tromboncino squash look very intriguing, maybe something to try next year.
ReplyDeleteAll of these eggplants are from saving the seed of a hybrid called Neon; you can read more about my eggplant breeding experiment in this post; http://edible-garden.blogspot.com/2012/07/eggplant-breeding-experiment.html
Deletegreat post without doubt.nice photo's these all are. it look beautiful.nice variety show you in your blog. this is very usful blog . i like it. thank you for post it.
ReplyDeleteOur tomatoes are just trickling in little bits of them at a time. We had a late fruit set for both the tomatoes and peppers this year because of a long period of cool weather that caused blossom drop to occur. I hope I can eke out a fair amount of harvests from both before the cold fall rains arrive in force. Your tromboncini squash are amazing. They are obviously loving the area you planted them in.
ReplyDeletemy tomato harvests, especially the large fruited ones come in flushes, mostly due to our extra hot weather in May and June this year!
DeleteBeautiful squash and eggplants. I really love how the Tromboncinno looks on the vine.
ReplyDeleteI love the Tromboncinno, too. And I agree that the squash and eggplants are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe twin eggplant is cute. I got a HUGE tomato like that last year. It looked like a heart. <3
ReplyDeleteWhat are the lareg round greenish squash in your photo? Also, love the twin eggplant. I have never gotten one of those!
ReplyDeleteThe round squash is Rond de Nice (round from Nice) an Italian zuchinni
DeleteGreat harvest! I love your variety and the eggplant twins. Cute!
ReplyDeleteThat is one strange eggplant. I'm thinking of picking my two eggplants. They don't seem to be getting any larger.
ReplyDeleteCute twin eggplants. You always do so well with your small tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteYes the small tomatoes are always reliable here, especially those on the patio where it is warm but they get afternoon shade. The larger fruited ones tend to blossom drop in our heat, so there is a flush of fruit from flowers that set at the beginning of summer, then usually no more till things cool off. This year there have been a few here and there, because we have had a few days of rain and cooler temps now and then and they set fruit then. Hopefully there will be bigger harvests as the weather cools a bit.
DeleteLove that darling picture of the twin eggplant! I get a big kick out of the tromboncinno squash! Nice harvest you have. Nancy
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder about tromboncinno. I planned to grow some this year but I forgot about it. You really grow some amazing squash!
ReplyDeleteThe squash and eggplant look wonderful! What a funny little twin eggplant!
ReplyDeleteTrombocino was on my list to try next year but your photos kind of scare me. I will have to plan where to put it. Your plant lookd so lush and healthy. Have you had any problems with usual squash pests?
ReplyDeleteI don't seem to have squash bugs or squash vine borers (knock on wood) My biggest pests overall are rats mice and squirrels. Those squash on the greenhouse are growing in about 18 inches of horse manure.
DeleteReally impressed with your egglant harvest - deformed ones and all! It'll be interesting to see how much the tromboncini has grown when you finally harvest them.
ReplyDeleteOh I love the eggplants, I wish I had had more success with them last year. I've started them in the seed tray inside already so hopefully the earlier start will prove worthwhile. The tromboccino looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteWhile related, eggplants are more tender than tomatoes or peppers. I usually start tomatoes first, then peppers then eggplants. They will really pout and even give up the ghost if planted out before things are really warm. I can put out the others as soon as night temps are 50F for a week or so and they will do alright. But I keep the eggplants indoors an extra couple of weeks. Even then they don't get really big until about the first of Aug
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