Garden Photos On The Way Out The Door

I am in the airport getting ready for the first leg of my India trip. I’ll be heading out in about two hours to Paris and from there to Mumbai. Concerts in Mumbai, Nasik and Pune, and some lec-dems & workshops. And some family time, of course. I’m told my daughter caught a cold — hope she’s feeling better soon.

Anyway, before I left I took some photos of the garden and thought I’d share them. This year most of the plants are doing very well. The squash vine borers attacked my zucchini and pumpkin plants and totally killed them — but for the first time left my tromboncino squash (waaay better than zucchini IMO) totally alone. I win.

The first pictures are from my front steps, looking out over the slope.

…there are some potatoes in buckets in the foreground.

Some vegetable porn:

…kale.

…tomatoes.

…these will be orange pimiento peppers.

…muskmelon!

Now a new set of garden beds next to my garage, with some very productive tomatoes and peppers.

Coming along nicely…

And an amaranth plant, a volunteer from last year. I have an entire bed planted in amaranth but I forgot to take pictures of it. Too bad; the red plants are spectacular en masse.

And now, here are pictures of the container garden on top of our garage. This year I finished building a deck on this surface, and have moved almost all my other containers to be in the center of the space. The result is impossible to believe; we have a fabulous crop. For the next two weeks various friends will be picking, watering and keeping things going; we get back on the 25th, just in time for the really serious harvesting.

For some reason I can’t get photobucket to rotate these pictures so they embed correctly. Just turn your head 90 degrees, ‘k?

Tomatoes…

Cute little eggplants…

There is a karela vine in my greenhouse as well as several climbing the sides of the garage. They are producing very heavily. Good thing I like karela.

A Japanese karela. The Indian kind are rougher.

Ho Chi Minh hot peppers. Amazing.

Here’s what the garage-top garden looked like last year in early July. We’ve come a long way.