Harvest of Randoms

This garden is definitely my handiwork. I took a long look at it from the kitchen window and, from here, it just looks like a neglected corner of a slightly unkempt backyard.So haphazard! I love it! Left to their own devices, the squash vines have steadily marched their way through the tomatoes, Cuban Oregano, and random beans 'n peas and are trying like hell to climb over the little white garden boundary...I wonder where they're off to!

The Swiss Chard I bought on a whim from the local Home Depot (just to see how it would fare) is doing fantastically. Planted it in a sunny corner of the garden/yard (yarden?) and we've been clipping leaves daily for the last month or so....tender and delicious!


A few weeks ago I planted some random dried beans I found languishing in the bottom of the refrigerator - just to see if they might come alive. Yeah, they did. And they're quite happy, it seems. Like so:

I wonder if they will actually produce edibles! If I had thought they would take off, I would have planted them at the back  of the garden, but I didn't expect them to do anything, so they're smack in front of everything else and I've had to design a bamboo-pole jungle gym of sorts to guide them out of the way. Planning will be involved in my next garden, I assure you.

What else? I counted 62 unripe tomatoes in the TomatoWonderland quarter of the garden! That's a good amount of tomatoes, I should think! Seven varieties! And 15 eggplant buds!

 Not bad for a single bush! Can't wait to git 'em!