A July morning in Southern California

Being one block from the beach, there is our June gloom, continuing into July, with the sky overcast nearly all morning and the morning dew on my plants. I like how the dew highlights the outlines of my plants, pretty but definitely not summery.

Tomato flower

Green tomatoes will stay green a bit longer. I'm glad I plant only coool weather tolerant toamtoes. These are my Japanese Black Trifele, apparently a Russian tomato. I bet there is an interesting back story to this variety but I haven't yet found it. Though this is my first year growing these, I'm already quite fond of them.

Corn leaf

Cabbage leaf

Mystery patch tale: cabbage or cauliflower?

Earlier this spring, I kept bunch of seed packets in my purse as it makes it easier to pull out my seeds each time I visited my community garden plot. After several months, I noticed that most of my seed packets had fallen apart, the bottom of my purse now home to a seed collection. Since I abhor wasting seeds and I got tired of grabbing seeds each time I rummaged through my purse, I upturned my purse one day, dumping the contents over a bed of soil. Included: cilantro, cabbage, caulifower, broccoli and chard. I'm left with no idea what these are but they do look hearty and happy.