Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #24 is “plant edibles.” Here are some early photos of what I’ve brought home from my garden. (I don’t take any more because my tomato plants are going so wild with tomatoes that I don’t bother!)

I am now eating a lot of salads, and I put tomatoes into everything I can! The chard is growing nicely, but I don’t pick it often because it’s a bit bitter, so I don’t want to use it as my dominant salad green. Note to self: Plant regular lettuce next year! My onions are done, unfortunately, but I’m still getting a lot of peppers, of which I planted three different varieties in the sweet category.. The bell pepper plant produces these large green ones (people say if you wait to pick them, they turn red, but that takes too long!), another pepper produces smaller peppers that are striped. These turn red and yellow rather quickly. The third variety is shown in the photo above – long and skinny, once they turn red, they look like a hot pepper! But they aren’t, and now I wait for them to turn red also.

I had hoped my son would come over today to pick tomatoes, and take home whatever he picked, but he didn’t come and now I have way too many! I will have to pick them again tomorrow and share them with the community. The residents here who have gardens leave whatever they can’t use across from the dining room, and whatever they leave is snatched up very quickly! I left some tomatoes today and will have to leave more tomorrow, along with chard!