Half the herb garden. We are looking at chives, lemon balm, and the melon sage plants, which have rebounded after my mini-harvest a few weeks ago.
My flatleaf parsley has grown out of control... it is as tall as I am and flowering like crazy.
Oregano might be the easiest herb for me to grow - I've already filled 4 spice jars with dried leaves, and here are the plants filling back in again. At the bottom of the picture you can see the random tomato plant which has decided to grow on it's own. My dill just didn't do well... it may be too fragile of a plant for me to grow.
My Julianne tomato vine is the most prolific of all the plants this year. It is weighing down my tomato wall and producing tons of fruit (look! Some is even ripe!) A few more days of decent sun and I might have enough to do something with it.
Here's the center section of the tomato wall. It looks like that mystery "yellow" plant I picked up is the same kind as the six pack of plants - a "yellow pear tomato" - they are shaped like pears, about the size of cherry tomatoes and very sweet.
The porch roma tomato vine has kept to it's name... it seems stunted regardless of the amount of space I gave for it's roots to take off. It is dense, but full for sugh a little guy.
This little fella is right next to my roma plant. I didn't plant it, it's just one of those random guys that came up on it's own, and has one teeny tiny little tomato growing on the very end.
It's the Charlie Brown Tomato Plant.
One of the pear tomatoes.
Now... this squash was labeled to be like zucchini, only yellow. They have yet to grow to a decent size before starting to rot at the ends, so I've had to pick them while they are roughly the size of a pickling cucumber. They taste good... they are just smaller than I expected.
My other squash plant just produced it's first squash.
It's September.
Oy.
Here is one of the tomato plants that decided to grow on it's own in the herb garden, right up next to my thyme. I know it won't produce any fruit, it's way too late in the season, but I can't bring myself to pull a plant that I've been trying to grow every year since we moved here!
The vine of another mystery tomato plant... this one has lots of fruit. I suspect it's a cherry tomato type (I had those planted last year, one of the vines fell over and a bunch of tomatoes fell off. I'm guessing that's why the seeds are sprouting in odd locations)
An overview of the entire garden.
This year I planted what was labeled as "creeping rosemary" in my hanging baskets. Rosemary is resistant to drought, which is why I figured it would do OK in the baskets (since I forget to water things) It is doing well and has grown, but it's not dangling so much as it's stretching. I call it the Alien Rosemary.
I didn't grow these cukes... but my neighbor signed up for a veggie co-op with a woman at her work and came home with bags of giant cucumbers - which she gifted to me with a "So... you were planning on making pickles tonight, right?" I've put up 18 pints of Grandma's Bread and Butter Pickles (and two additional which didn't seal properly are now in my fridge) I may have sliced the first batch a little thin, as they don't seem quite as crunchy as I would normally like, but the second batch seems to be better with texture. The flavor is great either way (imho) Over the years I've tried Grandma's recipes for dill and sweet as well, but the bread and butter recipe is the one everybody likes, so I'm sticking with that one.
