Fruit of the Vine, Work of Human Hands

Well, a long overdue garden update, then? You've got it.

This is a shot of the bounty's beginnings in late July:

Some lovely onions, Sunsugar tomatoes, and serrano peppers.

And then there were these in early August:

Taters!

These are Yukon Golds, and they are delectable. E has been coming up with ways to cook as many things as possible on the grill, and he's taken to chopping these up and roasting them in foil with olive oil, butter onions, salt, and pepper. As a person of Eastern European and Irish background, I delight in this. I also delight in digging up the potatoes – it's like being a kid again, digging for treasure.

You'll note some onions here too. They were fine, but didn't do much, possibly due to underwatering. I'll have to give some thought as to whether I'll do them again next year, or perhaps just do a second row of tasty potatoes.

And from today:

Yes, it's a party out back to be sure. More tomatoes, now adding Opalkas and Mr. Stripeys to the mix, as well as various bell peppers, more serranos, mole peppers, poblanos, a few scallions, and, for the first time ever, tomatillos. Our tomatillo plant (shrub? tree?) is a good five feet tall, and has yet to produce much of significance, but has grown so tall that we had to get two large stakes to which we lashed its tomato cage to keep it from toppling in thunderstorms. If nothing else comes from it, it's the only plant in our whole yard on which I've seen honeybees, so that's something. There are plenty of fruit husks, which precede the actual fruit, but some of them never produce and simply fall off. But now that we've gotten a few, I'm hoping perhaps we'll hit high gear before the frost comes.