Over the weekend I had one of my largest harvests of the year yet:

There are carrots, cucumbers (pickling and slicing), beets, string beans, and tumbler tomatoes. Also not shown are the daily zucchini. The carrots were a bit short and stubby, but are very colorful. I'm thinking they are supposed to be short ones. They were from a free packet from the seed company so I'm not too sure of the details, but they look yummy. Some had actually split from getting too fat too quickly. I blame the weather. :)

Also my tomatoes are well on their way to being ripe:

That's one of my wayahead tomatoes. Since I have taken the pictures I have picked one wayahead and two taxi tomatoes, not to mention the several dozen tumbler tomatoes I have picked so far.

And what have I been doing with all of the extra zucchini that I haven't eaten or given away? How about zucchini pickles:

These are my first attempt. They are bread and butter zucchini pickles. They taste pretty good. I'll post the recipe shortly.

And as I am writing this blog entry I'm enjoying my my favorite summer salad. Yum!