How does your garden grow?

I think we’re about 2/3 of the way through our growing season here in Boston so I thought I’d give you the garden score. You may recall that my crazy optimist husband planted peppers, lettuce, cilantro and cherry tomatoes along with our usual basil, mint, rosemary and oregano.

Here are the results so far:

Cilantro: fail

The cilantro plant didn’t die but of course we cut the leaves to use in cooking. And they didn’t come back, nor did the seeds he planted do much beyond barely sprouting. This is the third yard and second climate in which we’ve tried and failed to grow cilantro.

Peppers: moderately good results

We have two tiny peppers on the jalepeno plant and one on the pablano chili plant. They aren’t very big but they’re there and I can see us harvesting them sometime in August or maybe September.

Cherry tomatoes: decent results

We have probably a dozen little green tomatoes on the plant plus one that’s actually turning red. This result is the most surprising to me because we really don’t get all that much sun for all that long in the patio.

The rest of the herbs: great as usual

It’s still a mystery to me why we can grow basil like crazy but still struggle with cilantro, but that’s the way it is.