While there we visited my FIL's 5th cousin and their farm. His wife had a huge greenhouse that she said was her "little project". I was a bit jealous of the magnitude of it. I'm in the orange checking out the gooseberry plants.
Meanwhile back in the states I was fortunate enough to have rain on many of the days that we were gone. I had picked about 10 huge green tomatoes and left them on a plate for them to ripen. Our house and dog sitter ate the tomatoes and said they were delicious. My neighbor looked after my garden and picked two zucchini squash to enjoy for his family. When I gat back the tomato plants had lost most of there leaves, cucumber vines had grown to the top of my 10ft trellis, and the mystery tree (maple) had grown to about 5ft tall.
So as of the first of July, I have harvested a ton of jalapeños, about 3 bowls of various tomatoes (@ 10lbs), 5 zucchini, 3 straight eight cucumbers, and about a dozen bell and sweet peppers. Not a bad season so far. Thanks to the aboundance of rain this season, I have used very little city water. I also think though that the rain drowned out most of my plants too.
This year's homestead project has been my grapevine pergola. It has taken me a few weeks to work on. I just have a few little things left but it's pretty much done.
I built a table and used some scape wood found on the curb to build three benches. It's been a fun project.
Lately I have been into growing fruit trees. Here is a sapling of a mango tree I started from a grocery store mango.
One of my three Bradford pear trees is producing fruit.
If you haven't started your own garden it's not to late. Get those beds ready for a fall garden or even plant a tomato plant in a bucket. With our summer heat usually lasting until almost October, you still have time for a late summer harvest. Either way, as I always like to say..... Happy gardening and Get Dirty!
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