Here’s a photo taken near dusk of another section of the Gimpy Garden. On the left is a 20-gallon garbage can growing Black Cherry tomatoes supported by one of Cait’s Crutch Tomato Cages.

Surrounding the crutches are metal buckets and old feed troughs growing heirloom Lemon Cucumbers and Sun Berries - originally bred by Luther Burbank in the early 1900s.

The black cherry tomato is Cait’s favorite and they keep her happy with their complex sweet and red wine-tinted flavor. They’re a gorgeous color and grow easily and abundantly up to the first frost.

The Lemon Cucumbers are sweet, easily digested, prolific and hardy. Hands down, they’re Marty’s favorite cuke.

This was our first year growing juicy Sun Berries and they were a challenge but worth the effort. They’re remarkably like first cousins to blueberries with a bit more tang, and they aren’t terribly hardy but they can thrive in containers, which is nice.

We loved them. The birds loved them. And most of all those bastardly Japanese Beetles loved them. We harvested just enough to get a taste and get hooked.

Next year, we will grow three times as many and keep them covered in floating row cloth to ensure that we can go stark-raving piggy when those berries ripen.