Best harvest yet

We picked a good amount of vegetables today, in fact it was our best day so far this season. We also realize it is the tip of the proverbial iceberg, There's still an abundance of vegetables yet to come but it's good to see the bell peppers and corn and even the peas getting close to being picked.
Check out the pic of what we have on the counter and check out the video too.

Colorful

Had a very colorful harvest this morning as you can see from the picture below. We picked purple- eggplant, yellow-banana pepper and squash, green- cucumber and jalapenos and red- cherry tomatoes.
The corn and bell peppers will be ready next week and the tomatoes and peas are following close behind. It's definitely our favorite time of the year in our backyard garden.

Zucchini peach jam

We are picking jalapeno peppers, sweet banana peppers, shishito peppers, eggplant, squash, zucchini, cherry tomatoes and a few larger tomatoes too. The corn is growing fast and if we can keep the squirrels away, we'll be picking that in the next ten days or so also. The fig trees are full of fruit and are due the latter part of July.
Yesterday was a canning day as we processed nine jars of  pineapple jalapeno jelly and 9 jars of another of our favorites, zucchini peach jam.
Cucumbers are beginning to produce and we'll be making pickles very soon too.

The first jelly/ jam of the season!

As you can see, there was a good harvest today with an assortment of vegetables. shisito peppers, sweet banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, zucchini. squash, cucumbers and yes some small tomatoes.

We also started the jelly making process with one of our favorites pineapple jalapeno jelly. If you'd like some, just email me.

On the schedule for tomorrow, canning zucchini peach jam and turning our cucumbers into dill pickles.

Let the harvest begin!

The weather has finally improved over the past week and the vegetables are responding as are the herbs, especially the mint.
As you can see below, we picked squash, eggplant, zucchini and an assortment of banana, shishito and jalapeno peppers. 

Rain, rain and it's time to pick vegetables

This growing season has been unusual to say the least. First we had an abnormally chilly April then it warmed up but three weeks ago it started raining. Vegetables like water and we've enjoyed not watering the garden every other day but vegetables like sunshine and consistency too. The excess of rain has interfered with their growth but hopefully sunny days are ahead.
We have started the picking( and eating) process though. 
Check out the squash, zucchini and eggplant that we turned into a delicious ratatouille.