Finally some garden produce!

We've been eating from the garden for a while now but it seems like everything took forever to grow this year. The lettuces did great with the cool, wet spring but everything else is just starting to produce now. The poor melons are half the size they should be! We picked and ate the first ripe tomato on Aug 15th - several months later than my original plan!! At least we seem to be getting lots now.

Here's a sampling of whats in the garden now . . .

These are Vermont cranberry beans. Only one seed germinated of the six I planted (I did put them in very early) so I am saving all the crop for seed next year. It is by far the prettiest bean I have ever grown!



These are the Jeune De Joubs yellow carrots - the kids really like them. I liked the taste too but more importantly I liked the fact they grew better than any other carrots I have grown to date! I hope they store as well as they grow.



And some yummy broccoli. I am going to try growing some under a hoop house this fall as well.



Isn`t this the cutest little pumpkin? I can't wait til it turns orange but in the meantime is is the most wonderful shade of dark green. It is smaller than the other pumpkins from the volunteer plants but it is so perfectly round!



And a random picture of a beet! I ate all the beets already. Mmmmmm beets. I love them roasted with garlic. Mmmmmmmmmm. I did plant some more a few weeks ago, I hope they get big enough store for winter.