A Summer of Great Bounty

Let's remember together how the Yoshimura garden started out, shall we?



Yes, that's it in the background of the finished patio picture. We see a few plants, just trying to make it in a sea of dirt and plenty of soaker hose. But, just a few months and triple-degree temperatures later, we find this:



A bounty, although somewhat limited in its scope. Shall we tour the three most robust (read: almost only surviving) crops?

First, enter the eggplant forest:


Steve will likely disown me for putting this up, but lo, look at the many uses our produce from this fine forest affords us:


Then, on to the intrepid tomatoes, one of which seems to have taken after its cousin tomato plant on the Floyd porch ranch out in New Jersey:




And then, our last tour stop, the vine-yard. No, not a vineyard, which might give us a bounty of grapes. Instead, our vine-yard is made up of two zucchini and two pumpkin plants which have yielded nearly no vegetables, but have taken over a good portion of the side yard. We found out today that one vine from a pumpkin has even made it through the fence you see to the right and has started staking its claim on our neighbor's yard!



Still, who can resist a daily harvest like this? With the things that became ripe today, we decided to make eggplant parmesean with a green salad on the side. Not too shabby, for novice gardeners. A craft? Not so sure. But do we have a gardening blog yet? Nope - so here it lands. Anyone want to come over for dinner?