What We've Pulled Out of the Garden Lately

This week the tomatoes are starting to show their colors.  We've been enjoying the jelly bean sized tomatoes for about a week and now we are getting quite a few large tomatoes.  The dragon tongue beans are still producing quite a bit and now the pepper plants (mostly the hot variety) have dozens of peppers for us to start plucking and pickling.  When they turn red I like to pick them, sew them together, and hang them to dry. The shallots are in the garage drying next to the garlic and the leeks are ripe for picking.  I also dug up a small row of potatoes and found some tasty looking banana varieties ready for harvest. At the bottom is a picture of our first cucumber!  Can't wait to pluck that one and make more tabouleh!  In between all the harvesting I've weeded, planted more beans, weeded, squashed cucumber beetles, weeded, mulched, and, oh yeah,  weeded.