August harvest. Sowing for fall.
Harvesting the red cabbage this week. (Those are thumbprints where I squeezed the head to make sure it was firm enough to pick.)
Asian pears. They're sweet, but still very tart and crunchy. I expect they'll have that buttery, melt in your mouth texture in about a month.
Squash and tomatoes in the background. Rows of fava beans center. Carrot seedlings in the front. This is where the chard had been in the spring. The thyme next to it (on the left) has doubled in size since May.
A Honey Crisp apple. Actually, that probably won't be ripe before September.
I'm sparing you the photos of the beans (which are currenly pouring, Niagara-Falls-like, out of my garden), the half-eaten blueberries, and the very unripe raspberries.
For once I've managed to plant at exactly the time I'd planned to do so. I started some of the fall/winter garden today. I planted:
More carrots: Scarlet Nantes. Had zero luck with this variety 2 years ago, but perhaps it was the location? They have nicer soil now, and far more sun.
Cilantro. Remind me to plant more each week. I have yet to get a decent yield of these things. Too hot, too cold, not enough seed, poor seed, bad soil. I don't know. Cilantro is supposed to be easy. Weedy, even. Not for me!
"Bullet" Romaine/Cos lettuce. Per the seed package: "50 days. Bullet has wide, dark green leaves that are dense, thick, and sweet." (Packed for 2007 but what the heck.) From Territorial. If it germinates, I'll plant more each week to replace the red cabbage that's coming out this week.
"Georgia" Collards. "Juicy blue-green leaves. Will stand light freezing, which improves the mild cabbage-like flavor. Can be picked in about 80 days." Also packed for 2007. I planted far too many, far too close, so I'll either have too many, too few, or none. (The chances it'll be just right are negligible. I'm kind of thinking I'll get next to none. I planted some 2 weeks ago, and the germination rate was right around 10%.)