Also, my onions are looking fairly decent compared to years past. I went back to starting them from seed and waited until the chance of any frost was over before setting them out. This seemed to have helped.
Aside from the Sungold and Black cherries, I picked our first slicing tomato this past weekend - a Cherokee Purple I believe. Usually the first tomatoes of the season aren't so great but this one was VERY good. It still amazes me how different (and amazing) homegrown heirloom tomatoes are compared to anything you might find at the supermarket or even most farmers markets.
I also picked the first hot peppers of summer. Hungarian Wax is incredibly early and always a reliable producer.
Looks so delicious! My family started a vegetable garden this year for the first time in maaaanny years and it is so exciting to see it grow and to taste food growing in your own backyard. This makes me want to plant onions and peppers! Thanks for sharing :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat are the two oval veggies/fruits under the tomatoes? From this angle they kind of look like mangoes, but my powers of reasoning tell me they're probably not. Then again, my sense of hopefulness tells me, "Someone figured out how to grow mangoes outside of a tropical climate! Sweet!" :P
ReplyDeleteYum. I went and knocked down my onions yesterday morning. So of course it rained cats and dogs in the late afternoon and then it rained again tonight.
ReplyDeleteYou and those artichokes, LOL! Oh well, I will have to settle for being the pepper girl, I give up and bow to your artichoke worthiness :)
ReplyDeleteI'm growing Hugarian Wax Peppers this year too. Will you post your recipe for pickled peppers please.
ReplyDeleteMy artichokes are actually pretty much done at this point, but I still have one bud out there that I should harvest soon. Yours look like they are excellently formed. That tomato is indeed gorgeous and glad to hear it tasted really good too. We have not been getting very warm and have had lots of thunderstorms in the past week or so and so my tomatoes are kind of stalled out. I wish we would get about six weeks of actual summer.
ReplyDeleteThe pickled peppers look great. I presume that these are refrigerator pickling (e.g., not canned)?
ReplyDeleteAwesome blog, and the photos are excellent! I love artichokes and yours look perfect. Congrats on a great harvest- yum!
ReplyDeleteIt is first time of me to see artichokes. what is the use of artichokes?. Really I proud of you when seeing your healthy vegetable in photos and your baggage also.
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