For the past couple of years I have grown the Tumbling Tom tomato in a hanging basket. It produced well enough, and since it’s a very early producer I grew it again. It’s not a very exciting tomato though.

This year, I decided to try a Silvery Fir Tree in my hanging basket. So far, the plant seems to like it, even though the container is pretty small. The tomatoes are a little cat-faced, but that’s OK.

I was just looking through photos of the garden from last year, and found this photo:

Wow!

This year I have only a few green tomatoes as yet on my many plants. Granted, they went in the ground two weeks later this year… but it seems we are still way behind this year.

My cucumbers are just setting the first fruit right now, so we are WAY behind with that as well.

I did not get any fall planting of onions done last fall, and though this years onions are coming along nicely, they are not ready for harvest just yet.

Oh, to have such a harvest as in that photo.

Right now, I am only harvesting broccoli, cabbage, peas, and of course a variety of greens (lettuce, mustard, collard greens, swiss chard etc), basil, cilantro and of course garlic.

I did get my first small eggplant and squash the other day, as well.

Today I harvested the first fennel from one of my earthboxes.

Last year I grew fennel for the first time ever, in containers, not in earthboxes, but I let it go to far and it bolted and flowered before I got to them, so I just let them be for the bees to enjoy, and the bees did LOVE the fennel blooms.

This year, I’d like to actually get to eat some fennel!

Yesterday I harvested some more earthbox garlic, and here is the yield from one single box of Italian Easy Peel garlic. I am happy with the results!

Everything is behind this year it seems. Spring was cold and rainy. Summer never seemed to want to arrive. Crops were late or failed to germinate. I fell behind in even posting anything to my blog, for a variety of reasons.

But: Here I am again:

This year was my first season growing garlic in earthboxes.

I just harvested the first batch a couple of days ago. Here are some photos:
(Just click on any photo to enlarge it)

I also harvested some garlic grown in-ground at the same time.

I’ll take photos of the results of that harvest later. Right now it is so hot outside, I don’t even want to go outside. It went straight from upper 60′s to upper 90′s with no time to adjust. I like it much better in the cooler weather!