No snow!

I totally freaked out over nothing last night. The snow was wet, this spot is sheltered, and the rain washed away the layer of white that tried to stick on the ground. Perhaps this is a messy photo, but live tomato plants are messy.
And smug.

Tomatoes are hanging

At the market today, you could see that lots of tomatoes got picked very fast last night. Now they’re on sale as “Native field ripened tomatoes 1.50 lb”. Not bad!
My own tomato plant is still in the game. The worst that the chill did was kill off the leaves that weren’t looking so hot. And [...]

Is this the last harvest?

It’s going to be cold out tonight, as in near freezing. Poor tomatoes! This just might be the last vine-ripe batch I get to pick this year.

Tomato Onslaught

After hearing so much about late blight in tomatoes and potatoes, I feel like I got away with something. I mean I planted a tomato plant in the same spot three years in a row. It’s even been the same variety the last two years, Early Girl. In order to thoroughly tempt fate, I also [...]

Impatience

Is it ripe yet?
Is it ripe yet?
Is it ripe yet?

Tomato!

My first tomato of the year! My, that ripened quickly. Just a few days ago it was barely blushing.
Here it is fresh-picked for its trophy photo.
There it goes, off to the kitchen.
Bye-bye, tomato. Yum.

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!
Small things, [...]

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 as [...]