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Produce!
July 27, 2008 ( Food )
Warning: Posted from a state of food bliss.The garden is doing well. A few of the tomato plants are struggling -- the new varieties that I hadn't tried before -- Early Girls (which didn't put out as much as promised) and a weird type that makes tapered-bottom tomatoes (I'll find its tag when I dig the plant up later). The rest of the plants are Quite Happy and I have probably 20 beautiful tomatoes in the kitchen waiting to be eaten. The potatoes, as I've already mentioned have come and gone and I have a handful left to eat. The sunchokes are still growing strong, and like potatoes I have to wait until the plant part dies back before digging in.
My squash was odd this year. The yellow/summer squash produced a few early on, then mysteriously died back. My cucumbers and zucchini never showed up, replaced instead by monstrous acorn squash plants which have produced around a half a dozen of humongous gourds so far. Packaging mishap? Mutants? Who knows.
The corn managed to make ears. They never filled out fully, but were tasty. I got about a half a dozen ears from the 5 plants that survived
The food bliss part is from enjoying the (literal) fruits of my labor - in the form of a BLT for lunch, using my homegrown tomatoes on freshly baked (by my machine) bread with homemade truffle-oil-infused mayo and local+organic bacon; combining into a heart-attack of YUM.
Photos after the jump..
Posted by griffjon at July 27, 2008 01:47 PM
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