Current Produce and Future Produce

Another trip to the garden and another quarter inch of rain too, things were still looking great and growing like weeks. The tomato plants are starting to become loaded with lots of green tomatoes, especially the amish paste ones which I am looking forward to working with this year. Above is one of those generic hybrid ones that the local garden center stocks. They work okay for preservation but usually contain a lot of water which means a lot of hours reducing over a stove which is what I'm trying to reduce with the amish paste tomatoes this year. I only bought a couple plants of the one above for sticking in the ground early for fresh consumption.

Our apple tree is looking to have another banner year. I still have tons of canned apples from last year so my hope is to just give these away other than what we eat fresh.

The blown over peach tree isn't showing signs of stress and the peaches are starting to color but are rock hard and small. The ones above are about half the size of a standard store bought peach and rock hard. I'm still hoping for a good harvest.

 Our oldest grape plant is still looking good and the grapes are slowly growing. Having never raised grapes before, I'm not sure what to expect and to be honest, don't even remember what kind of grape this is. I'm assuming it is a purple grape and I'm pretty sure we bought it for it's juice making qualities. The grapes are slowly growing inside but are still really hard so it isn't yet ripe, one way or the other.

Our cucumbers, both Japanese (bigger) and pickling (smaller) are producing pretty well so I picked what was ready. There are lots more future ones still on the vines. The peppers, though small, are also starting to produce so I picked some of them for fresh eating.

Finally, I wrote earlier that I have never grown cabbage. I'm pretty sure my mom may have tried a few times when I was younger but I never remember any cabbage picked or eaten as part of our farm diet. We mostly ate leaf lettuce which we could grow quiet well. So when my mother-in-law started some cabbage plants from seed and my wife transplanted them to our farm garden, I didn't hold out a lot of faith that we would get some actual cabbage heads but I'll have to take back those thoughts. We harvested two small heads last time thinking that was as big as they were going to get but this week, there were two heads that were double or triple the size of the previous ones and the remaining ones have also dramatically increased in size. So we picked the two biggest ones and still have a half dozen more growing as I write this.