Fruit!

Fruit? Not yet. It’s exciting to see so many. They barely flowered last year.

preFruits?

I was elated to find this teeny white fuzzy buds on the peach. It’s not even as tall as I am, and it set fruit! I never saw which bees did the pollination, but thank you, little bees. And it’s really too early to get excited about a tomato flower, but there’s a tomato flower! […]

A veggie patch in May

Here’s my tiny vegetable patch, which may give you some idea of how little ground I manage to keep neat.

Farewell to Tomatoes

That’s it for fresh tomatoes. The last of the reddened tomatoes got cooked up. We got a couple of pizzas, a Khazarian lamb stew, and buffalo steak a la mexicana. The only picture I thought to take was this pizza. It’s inspired by this wonderfully obsessive page about the perfect pizza, but it’s not nearly […]

The Reddened

I know it’s silly (as if writing in a blog wasn’t silly) to get excited about this, but every single one of the tomatoes I picked turned red! We’ve been cooking our way into the basket, and they even have tomato nature in their flavor. A bit acid and not at all sweet, but definitely […]

The Reddening

That was quick. It’s only a week since my tomato harvest started to color up, and now lots of tomatoes are getting red. Last year’s batch took a lot longer; I had tomatoes slowly, slowly blushing pink until January. You may notice that I’m carefully not saying “ripening.” While the color is nice, I have […]

The Ripening

Here’s a simple season extender. Pick all your green tomatoes, pile them in a basket, and wait. So we’re hitting the two week mark, and there’s maybe a half dozen turning red. And then wait some more. You know, there really isn’t much more to say. Just wait.

Still Harvesting

The collards on the hillside were looking a bit clumpy and wilted, and there was a dusting of frost here and there. Oh noes! Were the tomatoes too optimistic?

Optimistic Tomatoes

If you need a little optimism in your life, grow tomatoes. (Besides, we might all be growing victory gardens next year.) They will keep flowering no matter what, until the first hard frost. Look at this! It’s after Columbus Day, and it’s still hoping. Too bad. I pinched the flower off so the plant will […]

Tomato, tomato, tomato

Today a monarch flew right in my face and danced off laughing at me. Has it been watching Venture Brothers? Meanwhile, my one tomato plant, Early Girl, has cluster after cluster of sweet nuggets that get redder by the hour. And the volunteer tomato is nearly ready for a taste test. I see lots of […]