I planted another row of Roma II beans today.
We have our first batch of zucchini. Sliced, sauteed in a little butter and olive oil with some Herb’N All from Herb’N Renewal This stuff is awesome on green beans too with a little parmesan cheese and slivered almonds. mmmmm
The tomatoes are the Big Beef and Classicas I started during the greenhouse class in March/April. I grew the BB last year and was pleased. They were huge, good tangy tomato flaver and because they were indeterminates we had tomatoes for some time. The Classica’s are a paste tomato I am growing for drying this year. I always liked the San Marzanos but we get the blight here and I have found that growing anything not resistant insures a minscule crop that doesn’t last long. I’m keeping my fingers crossed on the flaver of these.
The broccoli came from starts from the local Walmart. First 9 then a couple of weeks later 9 more. We have harvested the main heads from the first 9 and am about ready to harvest some of the second 9 as well as some side shoots off the earlier ones. Not sure of the variety but they had really good flavor.
The zucchini is my old standby Black Beauty. I’ve had the seed for these for several years and introduced some new genes into the pool this year with the addition of a new seed packet. I have 3 hills from what was started in the greenhouse, 2 hills of later starts and I planted some seed yesterday for another hill in a month or so when some of the first 3 should be winding down.
The Stella D’Oro daylillies I rec’d at last year’s plant swap are doing great. They were nothing more than spindly little guys in a shovel full of gravel last year and with some TLC they are doing awesome this year. Thank you to who ever I rec’d these from.
I started these Dianthus way back when mom was still here. They were one of the two plants (a creeping phlox) that I brought with me when we left her place. They had lived in a pot until last year. I actually thought I had lost them as they hadn’t bloomed in a year or two and were doing very poorly. I decided to plant them out and give them one last shot…glad I did. I never realized i had three different flower color/types in there.
These leeks are the Solinaise(sp?) variety I purchased from Park. So far they are looking great. This is a new crop for me. Keeping my fingers crossed. At $1.50 each at the grocery I am looking forward to putting some of these in the freezer for storage.