Stop! Harvest Time!

Behold.

The Ronde De Nice squash is uncertain and only producing a serviceable fruit every several days now. There's one in there in the middle.

The zucchini's leaves are yellowing and my guess is it has a couple more weeks at best. In the meantime, it's delivering superzukes, as shown on the left.

But the cucumbers and cornichons are making up for it, (on the right) and the tomatoes are nearing their red (or black or green, depending) and juicy tipping point (buried in the back but soon to be in the foreground, for sure). And the beans (green, purple, and fava) are a steady and reliable, if not as prolific, source over these past several weeks, with more to come there, we're sure.

I suggested last night that we could slice a cucumber and a zucchini and alternate the slices, kind of like a vegan turducken. The Kat was displeased with this.

No matter, it appears that cucumber-zucchini salad is quite a hit on the Ivory Coast.

Anyhow, that there is over 8 and a half pounds of food, all pulled out of the dirt today. Hurrah.

Red and Black (and Yellow)

Yesterday, I purchased a heavyduty trellis, and thought to myself, "I really could make this instead of buying it."

It was for two of the tomato plants we have by the south side of The Homestead. Kat planted them right in the bags of compost, and they've done wonderfully. One is a black tomato (a few harvested yesterday), and the other is a red of some sort.

They have grown crazy-big. They were falling forward on to the ground. They needed support. So I got a trellis, and we tied 'em up. I think we're going to have a lot of tomatoes very soon.

There is also a very sad little yellow tomato there (one fruit harvested yesterday). We freed it of its dying leaves and hope it comes back to us.

And water all around.

Yesterday for lunch, I ate a bunch of zucchini and purple beans, sauteed in olive oil and tarragon.

Today, I will finally get us to some point of completion on preparation for next Saturday's garage sale.