My peppers have done well though.  That red one is my first pimento pepper, not quite ready to pick.  I think another day and it will be fully red and ready.  I have visions of making pimento cheese with my own peppers this year.  (I’m a cow away from making it completely homemade!).  My tomatillo plants are hearty and starting to fruit up nicely.  The brussel sprouts I planted last spring that I thought would just be a spring crop (turns out they can go for a loooonnnnnggg time) are looking good.  Good to the point where Edie is talking about how good they are going to be roasted.  I still have some chard and some kale that have weathered the heat beautifully.  The new sage & thyme plants I planted this year have taken off.  The fennel I planted is doing nicely too.  And bonus, I discovered a volunteer golden cherry tomatillo (also known as a pineapple tomatillo) plant!  I harvested some seeds from some last summer and while they sprouted up, they never did anything this year.  I was quite pleased to find it, as we really enjoyed them last year and were bummed to think we wouldn’t get them.  They were a most pleasant surprise.

While my kitchen counters haven’t been overcome by my tomatoes,  I have been lucky enough to have generous friends share their bounty, so that we have still been able to eat homegrown tomato sandwiches for as many meals a day as we care to.  Thankfully, tomato plants have growing season, and the blooms I saw a few weeks ago are now green tomatoes that are weighing down my plants again.  And I got to pick a red one yesterday!!!  A very small grape one, but, a red one nonetheless.  Perhaps the battle has turned in my favor?  One can only hope…..