The garden is finally starting to produce. We got a late start this year because I was away in Japan in April – just when we normally set out starts and plant seeds – and this has been an extraordinarily cool summer so far. Something I read suggested Northern California has been having its coolest summer since some time in the 1980s. Normally, the grapes have fully taken on color by now, but veraison has barely started. Harvest will be late.
However, we're still getting lettuce and spinach, and we're now getting green beans, arugula, mustard greens, zucchini, other squash, poblano peppers, Fresno peppers, and green peppers. The first tomatoes have been a small variety called "Jaune Flamme" (or "yellow flame") that I've not grown before. It's not a cherry tomato but it's not a full-sized tomato either. It's one of those hat has fruit about the size of a golf ball. It's meaty and very flavorful. I'll look for it again in the future.

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