It is that time of the season where most of my vegetables are going to be ready for picking and harvesting. So far I have been consistently picking cucumbers and zucchini and this weekend I started with harvesting my corn for the first time this season. Corn usually ripens around the same time and I usually pick an entire row as long as they are the same type or breed of corn. I have two rows of corn and the second row will soon be harvested in a couple of weeks. For now I picked an early type and that is what I have been enjoying for the past few days.
The cucumber vines in the garden have been growing since the beginning of May and have been just producing cucumbers on a weekly basis. I have been picking a harvest pretty much every week and yesterday I probably picked the most so far this summer. I am glad I am picking plenty of cucumbers because I need to make up from last year when I only picked just a couple of cucumbers from one or two vines.
It seems that I will be picking tomatoes next from the garden. Many of them are ripening slow because of the cloudy and rainy weather that has been around this year. I am sure that with a couple of days of some sun most of them will be harvest prone. These would include all the types of tomatoes that I planted such as cherry, Roma, and beefsteak. There was one on a plant yesterday that I should have picked, but I will wait another day before I get to enjoy it's juicy flavor.
Eggplants are another vegetable that looks like it will be ready soon. These plants I started inside because this is one plant that needs much time to mature and it seems that they are maturing earlier than normal which is a good thing. I would guess that all the plants have at least one eggplant growing from them and possibly more with all the flowers that they had on them. I would guess sometime this month at least one or more eggplants will be mature enough for harvesting.
