Tomatoes!

Finally, the tomatoes are beginning to come in! Most productive are the yellow pear tomatoes. Unfortunately, they aren't as tasty as I'd hoped--a little bland and mushy. The Romas are looking pretty good. I have enough for a batch of salsa. I'm hoping that the rest will come in all at once, in a large enough quantity to make tomato sauce. The Cherokee purples are getting rotten before they ripen, and the Early Girls are getting eaten. Not by birds, especially since I've netted them. These are definitely gnawed, by nasty little rodents--chipmunks or squirrels that are worming their way under the netting.

When I bought seeds, I chose eggplant seeds that contained four varieties. I have four plants, so I wasn't sure what I'd end up with. The first plant to fruit has a traditional oblong, dark purple eggplant. I noticed last night that another plant has fruit--this one looks like a baseball--perfectly white and round! It's beautiful.

After four very dry weeks, we finally got some rain. We had a half-inch overnight, and more than an inch with this afternoon's thunderstorms. I hope we continue to get rain for a while--the garden is much happier (and so am I) when I don't have to water it.