It is so warm here for this time of the year, I am suppose to start tomatoes soon for the spring season but my fall tomatoes are still producing. Eggplants the same and I am lucky to have greens, carrots, beets, peas. In the fruit department, I just harvested the biggest banana bunch ever for me, I still have another bunch to ripen from the same plant.

One hand from the banana bunch, the rest is in another containers in the garage....

Tomatoes and eggplants

Have a very abundant and happy New Year to all!

Silvia

Yeah, right. Who else is harvesting now other than Silvia. hehe

O! I grew those Zebra eggplants one year. The plants were 5 -6 ft tall and good producers. This was back in Atlanta, GA.

Here is a harvest , last summer.

Silvia,

Are homegrown bananas better than store bought? I have always wondered about that. No chance I will ever grow bananas here in zone 6.

Sey,

Old pictures from summertime are fine too! The lack of greenery and sunlight in the winter gives me the blues, so any pictures are great.

Here are some of my pictures from this year's growing season

A variety of tomatoes, some cucumbers, a squash, okra and a Klondike Blue Ribbon watermelon.

My son holding a Old Time Tennessee melon, the smaller ones are golden Jenny Lind.

some of my garden/jungle

A baby horn worm eating one of my tomato plants, photo taken seconds before meeting his/her untimely death.

Yellow Moon and Stars watermelon growing on the vine

My biggest harvests this year were Pinkeye Purple Hull Peas, Garlic and Tomatoes.

Tomatoes

PinkEye Purple Hull Peas

Garlic

Wow! That is a lot of tomatoes harvested at one time.

We had mockingbirds nest in the kitchen garden arbor this year. When the babies fledged they spent time among the tomato plants. Harvesting tomatoes (mostly cherry at that time) was a bit challenging. I was typically bombed and tapped on the shoulder by one of the parents.

Beautiful garden photos!

Christacharlene, the only way to compare the homegrown banana flavor is with the homegrown tomatoes and the store bought ones. At one time in my garden I had 12 different varieties and I only kept 1, the one that I liked the best considering flavor, disease resistance and production. I make a lot of banana bread recipes to give to friends and neighbors and they always ask for the recipe saying it is the best tasting and I always say, it is not the recipe but the banana flavor. it jumps at you!

I am slow roasting tomatoes and drying bananas the first day of the year.:)

Silvia

I was looking through the pictures and I was kind of surprised by the seasonal metamorphosis it goes from April to October.

Sorry, I have a problem pasting photos from my tablet.

Plenty of tomatoes and all garden veggies eventually

Late tomatoes, they are not so pretty, Florida weave doesn't do much.

Other garden pictures.

More...

Last harvest.

I tried to take pics of the plants, my camera was dead. Now to try to fix it.

I got it working, now there is not enough light. Maybe tommorrow.

Some of my citrus pickings from this weekend--the grocery sacks are fuller than they look! No more fruit would fit in any of the bags (not all bags pictured). I still have sooooooo many lemons on my tree.

No ripe tomatoes for my fall season. At this point they'll be spring tomatoes!

Some Garden Candy - like fresh peas from the pod - would sure taste awesome right now !!

Or some sweet crisp Carrots !!

We are still eating stored onions from the garden though - they store well and should last us through April and sometimes May.

This is the beginning of my growing season in Miami. These are the 3 largest Everglades plants with the largest 2 having blooms already.

Hahaha ..

Here

... it won't be long :)

Sey