The spring Houston vegetable garden is about finished. Still a few tomatoes and the last of the green beans. Black eyed and purple peas are being harvested. The first of the okra is now ready. Edaname should be picked this week. The edaname experiment worked well. I planted them in early April, a bit late for regular green beans. The produced well, perhaps the cool spring helped some.
The Sweet Chelsea and Sun Gold tomatoes produced very well. The Sun Gold are cherry size and have a very good flavor. The Sweet Chelsea produced a tremendous amount. Their flavor is good, but they are a bit weird because the inside is green even when fully ripe. The Merced produced well and were of good quality. The champions were a disappointment. Production was low and the squirrels got what few that were produced. As a result, I can’t comment on quality.
The Kiowa blackberries produced a bumper crop in their second year of production. They produce and ripen over an extended time starting in mid may and continuing through most of June. Quality is excellent but you have to be careful and wait until they are fully ripe. I had some competition from the mockingbirds. Urban Harvest now sells only this variety. Some good gardening advice for Houston.
Other than the peas and okra the garden will be fallow and covered with mulch the rest of the summer.