We apologize for the lack of update in quite some time, but here are some new photos of the garden as it stands today.
The peas are now over 6 feet tall and quite heavy--the trellises keep toppling over, and we've had to reinforce them with new bamboo! We planted peas April and we've been harvesting them consistently since June.
Golden zucchini bearing fruit.
Squash plants getting ready to flower....
Our tomato plants look beautiful. These are Cherry Roma tomatoes that should be ready to be picked within 2 weeks. There is a tomato plant fungus going around in Rhode Island (a strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine), but nothing on our plants yet! Keeping our fingers crossed...
Our first cucumber--still a little prickly, but probably ready to eat by next week.
Blueberries are our summer treat here right now--we eat them straight off the bush and they're tart and delicious!
We harvested nearly 15 pounds of carrots last week--they were enormous!The summer has been going amazingly so far. Providence has been incredibly rainy and cloudy (June of 2009 was the dimmest June in the Northeast since 1903....) but the weather has finally picked up within the last week. Despite the wacky weather our plants look great, and our harvest is plentiful.
Most of our food goes to Amos House--a nonprofit food bank and shelter about 15 minutes from Brown campus that provides breakfast and lunch 6 times a week. We've also been eating quite a bit of the food from the garden, and it's been incredibly rewarding to harvest, cook, and eat the foods grown with our own hands--from seed to plate.
We hope everyone is having a great summer as well.
much love from our garden in Providence,
Lolly and Andrew
