I'm getting some tomatoes reliably. Not a lot, but enough to enjoy toast and tomatoes for breakfast, sometimes with eggs from the hens depending on how hungry I am.
I harvested my first red cabbage today. I planted 6. I think I'll end up with 4 heads. One is definitely NOT doing anything so I pulled it and put in the compost today. The one I picked I am making into a red sauerkraut with my Pickl-It jar. Recipe here from Wild Fermentation.
I'm getting green zucchini, white striped zucchini, and yellow crooknecked squash every day or so. Sliced and sauteed, grated and sauteed, grilled, grilled and put on a squash pizza. Today I grated some and made 2 loaves of zucchini bread and froze 2 more cups of grated squash for winter zucchini bread.
I have harvested some corn and peppers as well. I also see lots of pumpkins growing. Apparently growing them in the chicken yard was a good idea. The chickens nibbled on some leaves and pecked at one baby, but have since left them alone, although they like to wander underneath the leaves looking for bugs and such. The green zucchini is growing back there too.
My new fig tree, planted just a month ago, has some small figs growing. And my avocado tree, planted last spring, has a single avocado growing on it! Lemons galore, apples and Italian plums (the long narrow yellow-fleshed ones) are ready to eat as well.
You gotta love this time of year.
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