Monday Harvest - Sep 5th

It's raining tomatoes! So far we've got 151, my mother-in-law is actually maintaining a count log. Hahaha!

Harvest of 3 golden dorsett apples, tomatoes and 1 okra:

One of the brinjal plants actually has a flower on it, I cannot wait for it to become an actual brinjal.

End of July report

The tomato plants are loaded with heavy fruits. Even though they are caged and staked, a couple of them are ready to fall over. They are growing vigorously and are spread out. This season I decided not to prune them like I did last year.





We call this a tomato jungle :)




Pepper plants from last year are yielding. I also bought some new plants.





This year I sowed Okra and Eggplants. Okra plants have started flowering even though the plants are too small. Eggplants are too small, they are growing real slow.

1st Okra:



The apple tree has 3 apples and they are of a decent size.

Methi harvest and apples

I harvested the methi leaves yesterday and made Methi Pulav.



Methi Pulav, Brussel Sprouts and Raita :)




I bought the Golden Dorsett Apple tree at the end of Jan 2010 as bare root. It was on sale at Home Depot for $8.50. It started sprouting leaves in Spring and started blossoming in October. It had set lots of apples at the end of fall. Being a small tree I do not know whether to remove the small apples to let the tree grow further because all the tree's energy will be spent on apples now. I would rather have the tree grow bigger and establish itself and then have apples. Anyway I will do more research on this topic.


How cute are these tiny apples?

Apple and Citrus Trees

We have a Golden Dorsett Semi Dwarf Apple tree and a Dwarf Velencia Orange tree. We bought the apple tree as a bare root from Home Depot in January. That's the good time for purchasing bare root trees on sale. We planted it and it started sprouting leaves.  That's about, didn't do anything at all. I am convincing myself that it is establishing roots. Here is a pic:

We bought the Orange tree on Mothers day. We transplanted it on the ground and for a couple of months nothing happened. Even the small fruits dropped due to shock I guess. Now I see some new leaves sprouting.