Quiz Answers

I know how hard it's been for you to wait...thank you for your incredible patience...and now, I shall reveal the identities of the mysterious garden veggie pictures posted a couple days back. Ready?

This guy is a squash (zapallo). The fruit isn't fully ripe yet, as you can see below.

And they're quickly taking over their half of the bed.

These guys are radishes (rábanos). They're almost ready to be harvested and are sometimes used here in soups and salads.

And this you should recognize as flat-leaf parsley (perejil), good for use in pretty much any kind of soup, according to my sources.

This guy is my favorite - maybe because the scent of a tomato plant brings me back to being a kid and helping my grandfather water his garden in the summer. As one of the ladies exclaimed the other day, ¡Qué rico el olor de las matas de tomate! What a lovely smell the tomato plants have! I wholeheartedly agree.

These guys are not producing quite yet, but they've grown rapidly in the few weeks since we've planted the seeds, as you can see below.

We planted the tomatoes on the other side of the health center, where there's more sunlight and where they can have their privacy. Tomato plants are extremely shy, did you know?

Next, we have the turnips (nabo). We've already harvested these, as they had grown to gargantuan proportions and were ready for being chopped up and thrown into a soup or salad. Yum.

And this guy - if you couldn't tell before, maybe you can now:

They're green bell peppers (pimientos)! It's almost time to harvest them as well. Now if only there were a way to whip up some ranch dressing...stand by, I will get back to you on this posthaste.

Credit to The Pioneer Woman for the vegetable quiz idea!