EarthBox Update — July 7, 2013

by A.J. Coltrane

Previous post here.

Midweek part of the cocozelle zucchini plant broke most of the way off:

So this mass was cut off, including two pounds of small zucchini:

That same day the first two Glacier tomatoes were picked. On Sunday the first Sun Golds were picked. (No pic of the Sun Golds)

On Friday I went through and thinned out the four basil plants somewhat. Pictured is the “before” separating the stems. It turned into 1/2 pound of basil — $16 worth at the Sunday Farmer’s Market, less than that at the supermarket. Seattleauthor may do a post about basil oil using some of it.

And because that wasn’t enough basil:  The home of the spring veg is now basil, scallions and “bunch onions” until the fall. (The four basil plants were sold as one $3.48 pot at a big box store. All of the “bunch onions” were $3. Can’t go wrong with either of those.)

The brussels sprouts are now brusselling. Or sprouting. Caterpillars be damned.

The cucumbers are now rolling:

Gourmet peppers:

King of the North pepper. It started looking funky on the side this morning, so the bad part got trimmed and it became an addition to hashbrowns:

The shiso:

The fairly new raspberry plant, a gift from friends. It’s in a big pot that gets runoff from the roof. It’s well drained, we’ll see how it goes:

The tomatoes. Now well over 6 feet tall:

And because the crappy old garden hose was extremely aggravating: