An end-of-August garden update from BC. Thanks to R. for pictures and notes. (And behold, his loving assistant below, Bea.)
One big zucchini is left on the plant. I gather it wasn't a stellar year for zucchini, but R. harvested enough to put some aside (dehydrated slices) for winter soups.
Whoa! Those are some ginormous zucchini! What a beautiful colour. I don't know if these will still be good for eating, but if not, then R. should be able to save seeds from them.
The onions (yellow, white, and red) had a hard time this year and were still quite small when harvested this week. They're large enough to process, though, so they'll either be sliced and deyhdrated or chopped and frozen. I bet that will be an eye-watering task, as it sometimes seems the smaller the onion, the stronger it is. My eyes are stinging from here.
While most crops struggled with the heat and drought this summer, the Chocolate peppers loved it! I don't think we've ever had sweet peppers do this well.
Pineapple sage, going strong.
Sage, rosemary, peppermint, and pansies.
I was surprised with the news that we have two new furry friends in the family! Meet Smores (brown and white, in the foreground) and Smokey (black with a white-tipped tail) . These little doelings are staying at my in-law's place and have a fanastic little house all of their own.
Deluxe goat house
The poor shelling peas had a rough summer and the yield was very low. Hard to expect good yields from plants that were roasted by the heat. Where there's life, there's hope, though - check out the new shoots that came up in the last little while.
A good number of the tomatoes are ripening and doing okay despite the summer's extreme heat and the hail storm earlier this month. It looks like more are ripening on the vine this year than typically do.
Maglia Rosa
You can see the hail damage on these tomatoes (EM-Champion - click to enlarge).
Bellestar
Bellestar
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