Okra

I'm growing two heirloom varieties. It's a beautiful plant with beautiful flowers and fruit. I expect to harvest about one pod per week. That makes for a pretty small batch of gumbo.

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That's farmers' market-speak for mushy or broken tomatoes (etc.) sold at a steep discount. Today's were 75 cents a pound, just fine to eat sliced today. Mine are suffering a different fate...

They still have asparagus in Florida...

Asparagus season may be over in California, but it's still thriving in Florida, where the spears grow a lot bigger. Here's Dad standing next to this year's crop... hoping to win first prize at the Marion County Fair...

The last asparagus of spring

Asparagus is my favorite vegetable, and most years we have excellent organic asparagus into early summer and beyond at the local farmers' market. Not so this year. Maybe it's the drought, or maybe the mild winter. I'm thinking the latter, considering that we already have organic California zucchini appearing at the market. Not a bad consolation.