Author: Mark

San Marzano is an Italian Heirloom variety, grown outside Naples since the 18th Century. It is the only tomato variety that may be used in the sauce employed for Vera Pizza Napoletana (true Naples Pizza).

2015 – June 28- 3′ vines with 5 fruit.
July 9 – 3′ vine, 60 fruit.

The garden is now producing full-tilt. Thanks to the unusual heat this summer, even eggplants are thriving, helped along by their black plastic mulch.

My 4’x4′ patch of Alderman peas is now 8 feet tall, and loaded with a huge crop. Today I picked a bunch and shelled them – yielding about a pound of shelled peas. These are destined for dinner tonight.