Posted by: lizhamillscott | July 11, 2009

Kitchen Garden Update

It always starts out so innocent. Look at these cute little baby plants!

Liz's veggie garden, May 2009Liz’s veggie garden, May 2009

I planted these just a few days before I took these photos. 3 tomato plants, 4 pots of delicate, almost pathetic looking cucumbers, and some beans and corn.
Itty bitty tomatoes and cucumbersItty bitty tomatoes and cucumbers

I lost all the beans and one of the cucumber sets. I never got around to replanting. A pity about the beans, though I’m enjoying my mom’s surplus and the farmer’s market offerings.
Given what’s happened, it’s best I did not replant that last cuke set. It might have been…a little bit too much.
Kitchen garden, July 2009Kitchen garden, July 2009

Those things that are 5 feet tall are of course the tomato plants. Don’t all tomato plants create their own shade?
The things with the salad-plate sized green leaves crawling up the tomato jungle on the left side of the photo are the cucumbers.
It's very, very green out thereIt’s very, very green out there

So almost exactly 2 months after planting, I’ve got an overgrowing jungle of cucumbers and tomatoes locked together in some sort of power struggle/secret pact.
No ripe tomatoes yet. Which is a pity–a nice tomato would go well in a salad with one of the 31 cucumbers I’ve picked so far.
13 cucumbers in a basket13 cucumbers in a basket

They’re beautiful, and they taste fabulous. Light and sweet and crunchy.
Want one? I’ve got 18 in my fridge right now.


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