Baby cucumber

I have never seen fresh baby cucumbers in my town, but I found some baby cucumber plants at a DIY shop this spring. I bought only one plant for trial. It produced three cucumbers so far, but I picked only one.The upper is regular size and lower is a baby size. It's so cute. If I get lots of baby cucumbers, I want to make dill pickles.I ate them as a salad yesterday.

Dill and Syungiku

After the earquake and the tsunami had hit the northeastern Japan, I thought I was not able to get fresh veggies from main island. Therefore, I started to grow some herbs and veggies....We could not buy some vegetables for a few days, but now we can except for some items.

Grape tomato

Last month(?), I bought this tomato plant called "Grape tomato". It was the last plant of this type of tomatoes, so it was on sale. This tomato is getting purple guradually.

Last tomatoes

from our garden.

Fresh vegetable

These are fresh vegetables from our garden.

Orange bochan kabocha(Orange mini-sized pumpkin)

Broccori sprout leaves,2008

Some bugs ate this leaf except for the vains.

Purple potato and White(Ordinary?)(Plain?)potato

from our tiny garden.

Radish

Purple sweet potato

It is my first time to buy some fresh purple sweet potatoes.

The first cucumeber which I got from my garden.

It was about 85F yesterday and today, which was nearly highest temperature in Japan. Also, I got a cucumber from my garden today, I made cold somen with some garnish.