First few ripe tomatos

Cold cold mornings have given my tomatos the wilt. One momotoro had to be ripped out entirely, others we've been vigilantly pruning away suspect leaves. The only star in our patch is a Sweet 100(definitely not heirloom but who cares). This monster is growing over 7 feet and over- definitely sweet and in the hundreds.

Normally I am all about the black heirlooms, black prince, black krim, black plum, but this year they are so very sad looking with gangly necks and so few blooms that I've warmed up to the Sweet 100 which my neighbor salvaged out of the dumpster. I am so looking forward to making tomato jam!

fava time

All week we've been shucking fava beans. I have my beans from Peru a decade a go lovingly grown year after year. The seeds were a deep purple when I first started but some other fava dust must have wafted into my garden as I've started getting a strain of mottled purple fava beans.

2009 Crops

Normally I squirrel away my harvest notes in my blue notebook but thought it was time to record them here.

Jan-April - Arugula
May-Fava Harvest

Summer Plantings
Tomatoes
-Black Zebra (from Westbrae)
-Momotoro(tough boy from Westbrae)
-Pink Caspian
-Wapsipinicon Peach (from seed)
-mamma mia roma (dumpster,) in back patch
-patio tomato (dumpster)
-Old German (A Mennonite heirloom from Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.. 75d-85d)
-Great White

Squash
-Bella de Nizza
-Tondo di Chiaro

Corn
Strawberry Popcorn
Berkely Bowl Popcorn

Bean
- Rattle Snake Snap Bean
- Painted Lady

Greens
-Yugoslavian Red (from seed)
-Dino Kale (from seed)
- Red mustard (from seed)
- Red Russian Kale (from seed)
- 7 Top Turnip Greens (not yet sprouted)
-Bordeaux Spinach (dumpster)
-Marathon Broccoli(dumpster)
-Rainbow Chard(dumpster)