More goodies

It's been hot and dry here the past 4 days or so, and the garden is finally enjoying a reprieve from the cool, damp, weather we've been having. The tomatoes are turning red, zucchinis are growing well, and the cucumbers are starting to hit their stride.

Tonight for dinner we had zucchini (the first full sized from our plant, four more on the way), four small Manitoba tomatoes drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette (they are very, very tangy; they would probably be improved with a bit of sweetness in the vinaigrette, or perhaps no vinegar and merely olive oil alone) , our first cucumber picked off the trellis (note: cucumbers should not taste like water; they have a distinct taste which reminds me of the smell of freshly weed-whacked wildflowers after a rain; same for zucchini's just different flowers), a whack of yellow rocdor bush and also jeminez pole beans (which are very, very good. Better even than the rocdor yellows. It is like eating fresh, buttery green silk. I kid you not.), a couple of cosmic purple carrots (which are really only cosmic in the Woodstock era sense; the longest was six inches, the other about four inches. They remind me of a psychedelic bulls eye when cut cross-wise); I would grow them just for the visual aesthetic alone.

Judging from the look of things, we're soon to be up to our eyeballs in tomatoes and zucchinis. Suits me just fine. I'm keeping track of yields on our house calendar and will post yield information at the end of the month.