July 27 Roof Garden: Eggplant, Tomatoes, Peppers

Monday

No time for many words. But if you can't let pretty produce speak for itself at the end of July, what can you do?

July 27 harvest:
Eggplant Pingtung Long and Udumalapet
Tomatoes Kellog's Breakfast
(pretty green highlight, but they don't look like the photo at the link)
Black Cherry, Stupice, and Matina

This mystery Greek squash sent by Erik from Homegrown Evolution
has leaves that feel like suede.

I'd like to live under one

These rooster spur hot peppers grow upward. See the green one with its flower still on top? Click the link for the ripe look.

I dried these last year and they lasted me the winter+

Remember these San Marzano tomatoes with blossom end rot?

Their dose of hydrated lime must have worked

Hey neighbor!
Need a tomato for that sandwich?
The Roger Federer hand-off prevents this early beauty from going 20 feet down and splat.

Peppers Santa Fe Grande are crashing the gates.
I like to blacken them in a cast iron skillet and add to mung beans.

Our 7 gal in 8 gal SIPs do have a nice large reservoir. Many of our tomatoes have some sort of funk on their leaves, but I'm not stressing over it (well maybe a little).

I'm certainly not pulling out any plants that are producing

Here's a second planting in the earthbox that once held spring peapods:
Endive Full Heart Batavian and Golden Purslane. The lemon and Armenian cukes at right should offer some shade.

Kellog's Breakfast tomato, redux

Eggplant Udumalapet on the vine

Last year Art installed these PVC arches, which turned out to be too slippery for the melons to climb. This year we wrapped hairy garden twine around them, strategically attached with a glue gun.

The scarlett runner beans love them
and are heading skyward