This past week brought in cooler temps and lower humidity -- it was glorious! We didn't get any real rain, so I watered a few times, but the ground seems damp enough a few inches down that I can skip a few days.
The Zucchini is finally producing (see pic above) and is covered in blossoms that I hope also develop fruit soon.
We are preparing out county fair entries this week, though we won't have 5 equal-sized cucumbers and enough of the several other category entries that I'd hope for... the fair seems too early for a lot of our produce to be ripe and some rules require 15 identical examples of an item or a full quart, which makes it tough for a plot gardener to enter. Still, I'll have plenty of cut flowers and can do at least one pepper and one tomato entry.
The rabbits seem to be giving the Cow Peas and Green Bean plants a rest this week, so they are setting flowers and we may actually be able to harvest some in a few weeks.
I made fresh pesto with our Basil and cured Garlic.
We also tackled more weeding and tying up wayward Cucumber vines as well as reining in the now-tall Asparagus.
Everything else is humming right along...
What are you growing and harvesting in your edible garden this week?
About Fenton Friday: Every Friday during the growing season, I'll be giving you an update on my community garden plot at the Fenton Street Community Garden just across the street from my house in zone 7 Mid-Atlantic MD/DC border. I'm plot #16. It is a 10 ft x 20 ft space and this is our 14th year in the garden. (It opened in May 2011.) See past posts about our edible garden by putting "Fenton" into the Search box above (at the top, left on this blog.)
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