Good job! Mine is also slow this year but I have enjoyed cukes and tomatoes so far. I did pick a few sweet peppers and there are lots of hot ones out there for when I am ready to make salsa. Lori

No peppers, tomatoes, cukes, or any other foods from my garden yet.

Here in Washington, DC, I've just picked my first two cucumbers. Several little teeny green tomatoes. Tons of jalapenos, thai bird peppers and cayenne peppers. Come on tomatoes! I want to make some salsa!

Cheers,
Cathy

Ours is slow also. I am blaming it on the unusually cool summer we seem to be having. In fact, today I have had the air off all day! Not normal for late July in NC! We are having temperatures in the 60's at night! I figure it will all change come August and I will be having a hard time keeping up with everything.

However, I have managed to harvest enough to can squash pickles, corn relish (along with freezing corn) beans, 2 batches of salsa and today I had enough to get crushed tomatoes canned.

Here in coastal California, the heat really arrived!

Cukes are done, still a few zucchini and quite a few Hubbard type squash - which I hope won't die in the heat wave. Made quite a few fermented pickles from cucumbers and squash also. Also several jars of sauerkraut - now resting in the fridge.

Lots of cherry toms that are being dehydrated with a few slicers - but not many. Peppers still promising.

Picking almonds and the macadamia tree is loaded. Hope the squirrels won't find them.

Bejay

Near Charlotte, NC, we've had plenty of rain compared to last year when we were dealing with the drought and couldn't even water. I've got ripe tomatoes, plenty of squash, zucchini and cukes, potaotes, basil, corn is just about ready. I've already picked and canned some local peaches, peach jam, as well as green beans. We are very lucky this year. Cantelopes are also on their way. Strawberry jam made back in May fresh from a local farm.
On a side note, I thought long and hard, and with dilligent research, I finally bought a small coffee bean roaster online, FRESH ROAST PLUS 8, $89.00. It roast 3 ozs. at a time. With it, I got a special on raw beans. I cannot tell you the difference. Just that buying a peach from a store (hard, and nasty) compared to a fresh, tree-ripened peach that just melts in your mouth. The taste of fresh coffee is intoxicating. I'm a coffee lover from way back and I was always on a quest for fresh coffee. We don't have many coffee houses, being in a smaller town, plus STARBUCKS is too costly and too strong to me, so I'm in heaven!

Junelynn, I'm a fellow "green bean" roaster also! I started out with that same roaster you are talking about and have graduated to the next one up! You are so right in the taste of fresh coffee! It's funny how you are comparing it to a tree ripened peach. I always compared it to the difference between a tomato bought in the store and one you grew yourself! Starbucks....gross...burnt..stale...disgusting! True coffee drinkers never let Starbucks cross their lips! LOL!

June Lynn - Where are you in NC? I am near Charlotte also - Concord area. I agree - this is the best garden I've had in years, so glad it's not like last years drought!

~ Tracy