So, what’s new:
As you can see from the picture above, my yellow pear tomatoes have started to ripen! They are a little funny looking, kind of like bowling pins, and they are very tasty. My plant keeps producing them, even as most of my other tomato plants are on their way out.
My paste tomatoes suffered from a lot of blossom end rot, but not nearly as bad as the Prudens Purple. The mystery volunteer tomato did fine, as did the Silver Fir. Both of those plants produced small to medium sized fruit. Larger tomatoes just had problems this year.
I had a bumper crop of lemon cucumbers, too. I will definitely grow those again next year.
Soon, it will be time to pull up the tomato plants and consider what to grow for the fall. I like the idea of carrots especially, and some more tatsoi.
Apart from the garden, I’ve done a lot of canning. I made 6 half pints of fig-orange-honey preserves, which turned out great, and keeps getting better as it ages. The figs came from the backyard trees – can’t get more local than that!
I’ve also canned tomatoes and made salsa – 9 pints of crushed tomatoes, and 4 pints of salsa, 3 of which are lacto-fermented salsa. The tomatoes came from my CSA in the form of a 20 pound tomato share, and were fabulous – really healthy, firm, and meaty. Not to mention tasty.
I have a lot of nectarines and peaches, so I may make preserves out of that as well.
My social life ramped up for a little while, and that meant dinners out, and less cooking at home. I’ve also been sick, so little appetite. This will all change soon.
This weekend I pick up my salmon share! Very exciting!!
More soon!
