app plate with sungolds

Jim + Stacy + Bernice came over for dinner. Appetizer plate had: (clockwise from bottom right) sungold tomatoes; homemade pickled radishes (Farmers' Market); homemade rosemary-chipotle nuts (Sunflower bulk section); and hummus + pita chips (Trader Joe's).


[Photo by Bram]

the tomatoes are trying to get in!

office window:

first tomato!

weekend update

The raised bed has been a mixed bag: one basil died, the other is alive, but smothered by the sage; chives have dried up; dill is also struggling under the sage; none of the thyme made it; only three garlic bulbs pulled at solstice; sage is bonkers, as is the fennel;


[click for larger, had the office camera at home this weekend]

Sungold is so huge it's trying to get in the office window;



Paul Robeson is smaller, and only seems to have set about four tomatoes;


[inadvertently had the flash on for the closeups]

Sungold, on the other hand, has set a boatload of fruit, and is covered in blossoms, too;



bees like the lavender.


[click for larger]

Cheyenne with Spanish broom

Spartium junceum