Lots of food and collecting seeds. Shirley poppy seed heads are becoming light brown, so I cut them off and place them, pod down, into glass jars. The dry seeds fall into the jar for collection. It works out almost the same for garlic chives.
Harvest: beans, potatoes, cucumbers, a few peppers, blackberries, a few figs, Asian pears.
Here is a cucumber salad I made, all but onions from the victory garden.
Here are some Roma beans. I love these. They are great, stir fried or air fried with a little seasoned salt, garlic, oil.
Here are some Chinese beans, from many (20?) years of home-saved seeds. Tasty and "meaty", similar in a way to Romas but a more distinctive flavor.
Lots of big cucumbers. Next year, try one or two plants instead of three. These might be hybrid so
I'm not sure if I want to save seeds.
Triple Crown Blackberries. Of the ones I've grown, more productive, better flavor, juicier than almost any other. This year I will cull out the inferior Arapaho, Babycakes, and maybe Prime Ark Freedom.
I big Brunswick fig. This tree's production is miserly, but requires almost no maintenance and I have room, so I leave it there. The figs are huge and sweet, when they ripen.
Still lots of summer squash.
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