This past weekend, we made another quart of pesto. The basil has been the success story of the year, three cuttings and probably one more (for a total of about a gallon of pesto for the year). The beets and carrots have not matured wonderfully, probably due to insufficient sun in the back row, but the beets are tasty.
I also found some time this weekend to repair garden frame protectors, I have been trying to get to that all season... The choi planted at the beginning of August is beginning to mature. We have some lettuce, parsley and chard planted mid-august that will need to be transplanted this weekend. We have harvested four of twelve tomatoes from the blighted tomato plants. I have been picking off the affected leaves, but the blight is beginning to take over the entire plant. About four of the eight remaining tomatoes are beginning to ripen.
Another compost tower was placed in the asparagus patch. It will be interesting to see if this gets processed faster since there are likely more earthworms there than in the raised beds. I like that this tower has an opening that is about six inches square (the first is only four inches square). It is easier to dump scraps into this one without spilling.
The gala apple tree in the Southtowns is very full and beginning to drop fruit. We will harvest some this weekend.
