Corn??

Could I possibly get a few popcorn cobs this summer? Talk about a haphazard attempt (planted seeds between tomatoes and beans right before I left for a month)

Lots o tomatoes

I've been slowly working on processing tomatoes. I made some tomato soup, almost by accident. Been drying cherry tomatoes and made a batch of salsa to store in the freezer. The tomato plants are starting to look scraggly, but this has been a really great tomato year so I'm pretty happy.

Can't even tell ya how many buckets of tomatoes I've hauled in this summer.

Roasting tomatoes for soup:


Dried tomatoes and soup in freezer:

Even more (with a few pickling cukes):

Update on peppers and eggplants

These were also taken before we left for the trip, in the third week of July:
The Jalapenos are going crazy:


And... hoooray! I actually got an eggplant:


The heirloom Peter Peppers are finally starting to make peppers:

They will turn red and look like little weiners, hence their name.

Harvest pictures

These were taken in the 2nd and 3rd weeks of July. I started getting ripe tomatoes almost a month earlier than last year.
First batch of big ripe tomatoes:


Some tomatoes, asparagus beans, and the first Yamoto cucumber - these guys are almost 2 feet long but only an inch across:

Pizza!

Some homemade pizza using pesto and tomatoes from the garden:

It's hot

It's so hard to be a cat:


Some days it's so hot the cats can't even bother to go outside even if the door's open.

Sushi and Katsu kissing, right before they decided to have a 2-day fight:

Sushi is probably just checking out the competition. What good cats :)

More progress

For the first time ever, my eggplant plants have made it far enough to produce beautiful, uneaten flowers:

It would be great to actually get an eggplant this year.

The peppers are going strong. I have lots of the super-hot 5-color peppers. The Jalapenos just started producing:

I'd like to try smoking some to make chipotles.