This year we are growing tomatoes, strawberries (‘Everbearing’ and ‘Surecrop’), Walla Walla onions, pumpkins, beans (climbing and bush), Marionberry, rhubarb, peppers (Anaheim and Poblano) and herbs. I will add carrots, ‘Bright Lights’ chard and beets to our garden, shortly.
I kind of gave up on vegetable gardening for the past few years because we have so many rodents (rabbits, ground squirrels, rats and mice) that decimate some of our vegetable starts. (The pumpkin, cilantro and zucchini plants are already destroyed.) But, anyhow, this year I got the vegetable gardening itch.
This tomato plant (below) is ‘Little Napoli’ – a compact Roma tomato. This plant is our most productive tomato so far. We are also growing ‘Better Boy,’ a cherry tomato and ‘Early Girl.’
Bush beans (below). These are beautiful. Each plant has a few flowers. Interestingly/fortunately, the wildlife have not touched the pole bean plants that we planted in the ground.
My favorite variety of tomato is ‘Early Girl’ (below). These tomato plants are on steroids. They grow fast and get very tall and full in size; they also produce a lot of fruit. I almost always plant two of these tomato plants together in a barrel.
