Vegetable Gardener Pornography

Mid-summer harvests at the Beware of Rabbits Garden are large and magical.  The images of these harvests are a bit like pornography for
veggie gardeners.  Dreaming about harvests like these are what keep me going in chilly January, poring over seed catalogs and looking out the window at varying shades of gray and brown.

We took a family vacation for 5 days last week, and the harvest above is what awaited our return.  High five to my mother for watering while we were away...and yes, you know the gardening bug has bitten hard when you actually line up someone to water your plants while you are away.

Here's another ridiculous harvest from just before our vacation.  Note the purple yard long beans here and in the first harvest.

This harvest above was from Sunday, and it has some interesting things.  First, bottom left corner you'll see some baby carrots.  My wife had a marathon carrot patch weeding session, and she pulled every weed in the patch.  Weeding carrots always kills some innocent bystanders, and thus we have some early baby carrots for her salads.

In the top left corner is purslane, previously a weed, but no longer.  Purslane is totally edible and pretty tasty.  It has a citrusy flavor and a nice texture.  I have a number of large purslane plants growing in the garden.  More interesting stuff for the salads.

See the egg-shaped white fruit at the top, left of the cukes?  That's a lemon cucumber, my favorite cucumber variety.  I'm pretty stoked that they are starting to show up.

Yup, more tomatoes and cucumber and squash.

Look, the rare vertical image...and what do we have...tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash.  Surprise, Surprise.

A smallish harvest.

And smallish-er.

Our Kentucky Wonder pole beans are producing enough beans that we can eat them once a week.  We all like green beans.

This variety of small cherry tomatoes is new to the garden.  Called "Matt's Wild Cherry" from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, they are prolific and sweet.  There's no filtering or color adjustment on this photo...they really are that glossy and translucent in the sunlight.