7/28: Harvest Pic

Here's what we picked from our garden today: lotsa black-seeded simpson lettuce, our 5th yellow straightneck squash, our first black beauty eggplant, our first red jalapeno pepper (no possibility of salmonella there!), 3 green beans, 7 blueberries, 1 yellow pear tomato, several little red roma tomatoes, and lots of red cherry tomatoes. We're saving the lettuce for lunch tomorrow, and the eggplant & squash to slice and dehydrate tomorrow but the rest went down the hatch for dinner!

As a sidenote, today was the 16th day in a streak of "above-90-degree-days". The record is 18, set in 1874 and matched in 1901. The weather forecast puts us well past 18 days in a row and possibly more than 20 days in a row that are that hot. Personally, Doug and I would prefer to have cooler weather and not break the 90-degree-temp-streak. However, maybe if this streak keeps up, people (i.e. politicians) who have been saying there's no such thing as global warming might actually have to admit something different.

We keep hoping for rain but I felt only two drops this afternoon. Vikki