Okras for taste

okras growing

We sprinkled few okra seeds late june to test how they come out. Within 30-40 days, okras started growing. Next year I am looking forward to make sure I will grow more plants in the composted bed. I cann't wait to use the growing ones in my Sambar.

Edible or not?????

I bought this plant while looking for Thai pepper and after coming home read the label closely and found that the new plant I got is Ornamental Thai pepper. I did some research and couldn't get to a conclusion if ornamental peppers are edible or not. Some say they are not edible and are for purely ornamental purpose and some say they are not recommended to eat as they are too hot.

Today's Harvest

 Its end of July and almost half of summer is over. But tomatoes are bountiful and Siberian Tomato variety is producing enough for the whole family. We got few eggplants today which turned into a chutney. 

Tomato Time....

Look at them...

Look at the wierd shaped cucumber, I believe poor pollination can be attributed to this shape...

Extra Tomato plants

This year I got more tomato plants than I can accomodate in a bed and some of them got root bound in their 8 ounce glasses and I put some of them in containers(not huge containers) just to get extra few tomatoes. They are adding numbers to the harvests.

Mid July Harvest..

Sizing up...

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All the vegatables are sizing up and getting ready for harvest. The solo cucumer plant has given us 2 huge cucumbers and now with 2 more to get ready. There have been lot of female flowers but not many are getting pollinated.

Harvest on July 6th

Here are few cayenne peppers, early jalapeneos, sweet basil and cherry tomatoes. (I tried sungold F2 hybrid and 1 plant is bearing orange fruit and another red fruit).

Flowerbox with wintersown annuals

New Seeds germinated..

Ridge Gourd

I am trying some warm season crops, which may not be too ideal for new england weather, but experimenting to see what they have in store for me. Sowed Ridge Gourd, Bitter Gourd and Okra seeds and only Ridge Gourd and Okra seeds germinated showing some presence. Now its waiting and watching and fertilizing for the rest of the season....

Okra

First Summer harvest and end of June update

Sungold Cherry tomato and Mini pepper

Vegatable Bed

Eggplant is flowering

Cucumber

Thai Ornamental peppers

Early Jalapeno Peppers

Cayenne peppers

Here comes the tomatoes......

Flowers...

First Cucumber 2010

This year the first cucumber is almost a month early. We were in so hurry to finish it that I even forgot to take a picture.