Well it isn’t much, but we did get a little sorrel for the holidays. We will change the location and plant much more for next year.

This has to be some of the healthiest vine I’ve seen from a single spinach planting period. it has completely taken over the trellis that was full of cucumber just a month earlier. This bodes well for dark green leafy vegetables in the diet !!

Between the big thyme, the passion fruit, and the non-bearing eggplant, the garden beds needed a real clean up. The passion fruit was tearing down the shade cloth, the big thyme was overrunning the pepper plant and spilling over into the aisle, and the eggplant was just producing a lot of trash. Plus the last of the tomato vine was removed as well.

The few patches of scallions really did not amount to much this crop. They struggled with strength and with size. A few clumps did make it to the kitchen….

The tomato vines are producing some nice late fruit. Although it would be best to let them fully ripen on the vine, it is a timing challenge with the birds and other pests. So far, we are winning 😉

We may not have a true autumn as you may experience in the upper northern hemisphere, but this banana leaf has an array of colors as it ages, reminiscent of a north American fall.

There is not always something to harvest every day, but on many days there are a variety of items in small quantities that make their way from the property to the kitchen. For the last month or more, cucumbers have been part of that every day, but they have been joined by peppers, parsley,and as you see here, tomatoes and big thyme.

The orange trees that we treated earlier this year and where we pruned the dead branches have really rewarded us by bearing profusely. Although these oranges are not that good to eat, as they are not sweet, they are great for making juices, and for the past few days, there has been a bunch of them ready for picking.

Following the previously mentioned struggle with many tomato plants and few bearing fruit, we finally had a few which could be picked. It was a fine balance between leaving them to vine ripen, and saving them from the birds and insects. These three are healthy in size, despite the splits at the top, and will make a great addition to the meal in the coming days. There are about six or seven more not yet ready to pick, so the results are not quite as poor as it looked a month ago.

Our peppers have not been doing that well so far. Of the five or six trees planted, most are looking healthy, but there has been not very much in the way of peppers produced. Two of them were a little too close to the big thyme, and so they need to be moved, but the ones outside, seem to be producing a few peppers here and there. This was one of the first.