More harvest shots: 8/28, 8/30, 8/31 and 9/4.    There’s a good portion of all nightshades, all the time, but I did also take out the first batch of collards to thin out the patch a bit before I left the rest get bigger.

I’m getting things from the garden pretty much every other day now.    (This should feature a third pictures from Friday that involved kale and tomatoes, but was just too dark to salvage.)

I’m getting something each time I step into the garden(s) now – this was Wednesday – all the nightshades. We finally got some rain on Friday, so the zucchini are off and running again.   (This is from today – quiet a few of the cherry tomatoes has burst from all the water.) I took

The big tomatoes are finally starting to turn!    This particular one is probably in the sunniest location in the plot, so here’s hoping the rest follow suit soon. The above was Saturday’s haul, looking a bit like a still life.

I’ve decided to call zucchini Tardisfruit – there’s no other explanation for how they get so big so quickly.     The monstrosity above was waiting for me after I was gone for just three day. The cherry tomatoes are starting to bear – there are a ton of buds, so the best days are

Back when I first planted the community garden tomatoes, I swore I was going to keep on top of the suckers.   Reader, I did not.   On a whim, on Monday (when I was supposed to be doing a quick check before going away for a few days), I started going after suckers.  

The community garden plot is definitely looking lush.   In addition to the crazy zucchini, a bunch of other produce is coming along. Here’s one of the fairy eggplants coming along.     It has huge flowers, bigger than the Asian variety that I’m also growing, which will have bigger fruit.   I can totally

And lo, the deluge of zucchini has begun.   This was the crop last Wednesday.     I got another one of about the same size on Friday morning – I’d made a point to stop because were were going away for the next two nights.     I left it with nothing of any