August 30th, 2006 - My beautiful rainbow garden
Last night, in preparation for the soup I was going to make today (I realized at 3am that I have to work late tonight so will make it tomorrow instead), I picked the following in the garden
* dragon carrots, purple on the outside and orange on the inside
* dragon beans
* blue potatoes, although they currently are purple. I’d swear they were blue when I planted them but maybe I’m wrong and did buy purple ones. Purple does seem to be a theme in the garden right now. It was fun to dig up the first potatoes. Once again, I’m thrilled by them and am thinking that maybe I should plant them again next year. Maybe I will plant just a few–4 hills perhaps.
* orange pepper
* red pepper
* multiple varieties of tomatoes, I can’t remember what’s what in the garden and always have to look at the signs so I can’t remember once I pick them either. But there are green ones with pink undertones, dark red ones that are turning blackish (Purple Cherokee and Black Krim, neither of which appears to be getting as dark as they should, but I picked some that would go bad otherwise) at the least. The Mr. Stripy tomatoes have turned orange enough yet. And the orange tomatoes area beautiful shade of red-pink that looks ripe and nothing at all like it could turn into orange. I hope the plant was labeled correctly!
I also picked cherry tomatoes (red and orange), cucumbers, and Thumbelina carrots for lunch. Cut back some more the squash vines and found another pumpkin growing. Also found one more Yugoslavian finger fruit so there’s hope for another batch of grated zucchini for the winter.