This has become a summer garden

The nice few days of unseasonably cooler weather is now a thing of the past, and we are back to hot and humid weather. Still, this morning at 9:30 it was not too bad out at 75 degrees. It'll get up to 90 today they are predicting.

Since no rain since the 1/2 inch of a week ago, I watered everything in. I want to keep the Tiger Stripe zucchini plant going, so I gave it lots of extra water. I picked a nice sized zucchini off the plant today, and there are 3 more growing.

The Red Currant I learned, is an heirloom tomato. I came across the description while doing research.
Here is the description from www.heirloomseeds.com :

(1088) RED SWEET PEA CURRANT TOMATO 62 days
The large vines of this variety produces thousands of tiny ¼ inch fruits. The deep red tomatoes have a great rich and complex flavor. A perfect choice for snacking. Indeterminate vines.

And, they aren't kidding about tomatoes numbering into the THOUSANDS off of just one plant!
Pints and quarts, and more pints and quarts have been picked already, and the plant just keeps producing more than 1 person can keep up with! I've already enlisted the help of several people just to keep the fruit picked!

Here are a couple of  photos from this morning of the Red Currant Tomato, a very healthy and vibrant tomato plant: You can easily pick hundreds every day!

And here is a wide shot showing just how big this one Red Currant tomato plant has grown to:

Also, after having my entire eggplant crop wiped out in the early December freeze, the current eggplants are more than making up for those lost in the freeze.

I picked 6 more ripe eggplants today.  The crown has thorns and can hurt, and also I've broken a pair of scissors trying to cut the eggplant off the vine. Now I use a pair of bolt cutters as the preferred tool to pick these, and am careful in the way that I handle them.

Here is a photo of today's eggplant harvest:

There are still so many tomatoes to pick! Besides the Red Currant, there are Chadwick Cherries, Orange Sungolds, Delicious, Better Boy, and Razzleberry.

Here is a photo of the Razzleberry tomato plant, followed by a description of this exclusive variety from Park Seed Company.  http://www.parkseed.com/gardening/GP/listpage/vegetables

The Silky-Sweet Gourmet PINK Tomato! (as of May 20)

Park's Razzleberry Hybrid is a dark pink variety with a super sweet, mild flavor. But the best part is its texture. Instead of being meaty, mealy, chewy, or otherwise less than perfect, it is silky smooth. The fruit literally seems to melt in your mouth.

These 6 to 7 ounce fruits are simply on a different plane from just about every other Tomato due to its texture.

Consistently ranked at the top of our taste tests.

This is also one of the most vigorous, strong-stemmed Tomatoes. It reaches 4 to 5 feet high and about 2 feet across, producing abundant amounts of fruit.




This is the same Razzleberry plant just 20 days prior. You can see just how many tomatoes set on the one plant.


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And more cucumbers were picked today as well, just 2 days short of 7 full weeks of production.

Here is what was picked this morning:

And here are the updated totals:

Large slicing cucumbers: 140, and well over 200 counting the smaller pickling cukes.

Large tomatoes: 84, and hundreds more counting the cherry and Roma varieties.

Zucchinis: 42, with the majority coming from the very prolific Tiger Stripe variety.

Eggplants: 26, and still going strong!