Last Saturday, I mentioned that the raspberries were about to begin pouring in. Well, they have! We picked the first of them on Sunday and picked a second batch today. They'll last for about three weeks and then the blackberries will make their ripened debut. You can see one of the blackberry plants below. It's jammed with berries!
We've also begun picking the first of the beets. Lois found a recipe for "Harvard Beets". We'll be trying that tonight.
This eggplant is loaded with blossoms and has the first two fruits developing. It wont be long before we'll be making eggplant parmesan. The second eggplant was started later and hasn't begun to bloom yet.
Below is a pic of our county park ornamental gourd plant. I never expected to see it get so big so fast. The butternut and acorn squash are smaller at this point and that surprises me.
And here I am watering the butternut. All of the county park plants are doing well. And we've had no problem at all with insect pests or animals!
And don't forget to feed your pollinators! Plant flowers! Bumble bees are very helpful in
in pollinating all of your vegetable plants. They like the blue lobelia (above) and the
echinacea and then take a trip to the vegetable plot. I hope to see you again later this week!
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