Rosewood Vegetable Garden – 2014
View the Garden in 2013.
View the Garden in 2012.
October 22, 2014
The prize tomato of the season, four
inches in diameter and almost ripe and
ready for eating.
October 15, 2014
Tomatoes ripening upon a window sill
at Rosewood. We may need to employ
more window sills!
October 2, 2014
A basket of ripening tomatoes, picked on
an October day. This year the tomatoes are
quite late, with the first picked during
early September and continuing into the
following month. Plenty of green tomatoes
still on the plants – hopefully ripening
over the next week or two.
August 27, 2014
Cucumbers have been plentiful throughout August,
with more than 30 harvested thus far and more in the
garden to be picked in a few days. Tomatoes, on the
other hand, are running a couple of weeks behind last
year’s schedule – plenty in the garden, but all green.
August 4, 2014
The vegetable garden emerges from a rainy weekend with green tomatoes growing beneath
the warm August sun and a cucumber ready for picking.
July 21, 2014
Cucumber plants after a soaking rain. The garden
appears to be running a couple of weeks behind last
year. Although we’ve already picked eight quart-size
bags of peas and six gallon-size bags of lettuce,
cukes and tomatoes are slow going, perhaps due to
the cold spring and cool summer evenings we’ve been
experiencing.
June 19, 2014
Lettuce in the afternoon, after a morning shower
and after hoeing the soil. In the next couple of
days we will need to thin out the plants in order
to give them room to grow.
June 7, 2014
Peas growing under the late-afternoon sun, upon
a splendid Cape Cod Saturday in June.
May 22, 2014
Every new year out in the garden begins indoors, with tomatoes planted from seed in April by
the residents of Rosewood. The tomatoes are then transplanted from trays into individual pots,
and then placed out in our sunny “greenhouse,” which is actually our vestibule which leads to
the backyard. On Cape Cod, we’re always taught to wait until Memorial Day before transplanting
outdoors in the garden … so next week will be a busy week indeed!