Posted on August 10, 2021August 10, 2021Freezing tomatoes Too many to eat and not enough to deal with canning, so at Judy’s excellent advice we are freezing.
Posted on August 8, 2021August 8, 2021Leftovers garden taco salad From the garden: Fordhook Giant Swiss Chard (green in the rainbow beds), tomatoes, and salsa verde from yesterday. The Chef also reminds me that the leftover rice had onions and tomatoes in it too and he mixed in the rest of his refried beans with some canned refried beans.
Posted on August 8, 2021August 8, 2021Sprouting and preserving The sterile wheatgrass cover crop is sprouting! You can see the slower germinating buffalograss seed hanging out. I have especially put a lot in the narrow places where the water runs off from the raised beds. The grass with the red zinnias. Both chimayó and jalapeño peppers. Neither super hot. Everything from the garden except for garlic! Yum! Salsa verde complete! Picked green beans for dinner while waiting for salsa to finish simmering down. The Chef takes over for canning, my department is just vegetables, thank goodness.
Posted on August 6, 2021August 6, 2021Last night new helper friend!! And other things yesterday A fine Toad hanging out in the raised beds! Eat those earwigs please!! (May already be doing so as I have not seen many lately.) Tomatillos Verdes doing well, I think I have enough now to make salsa verde enough to can. Took garden cucumber to work today for a snack with ranch dressing. Not entirely sure but I think a Bombus impatiens bumblebee on a loofah gourd flower. There were at least two of these bumbles around. Helper!
Posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021Shelling the cowpeas Gram helps. Tobacco hornworm on tomatillo.
Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Foods Garden green beans (blue lake bush) with tonight’s dinner. Rice to go with tacos on weekend. Garden tomatoes. Refried beans to go with tacos Refried beans before any frying. Mostly black teparies, a few vaqueros. All the remaining from last year’s harvest.
Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Beans lately Bisbee gray cowpea Bisbee red cowpea Purple hulled pinkeye cowpea with my only four runner beans Greasy grits pole bean Inca pea bean
Posted on July 30, 2021July 30, 2021Evening rounds Back in the AC shelling purple hulled pink-eyed cowpea. The not quite dry ones maybe look a little pink on eyes?? They do have magnificently purple hulls. These two cowpea pods are still working on getting that consistent purple. I think this is the “fluttermill” seed pod beginning to develop on the Missouri fluttermill primrose. Lacinato kale is getting a bit overshadowed by the Fordham giant Swiss chard. We’ll have to have a salad to help it out. One marigold! Unfortunately it’s orange in the yellow section?? I thought the mix looked mostly yellow so hopefully at a distance we can pretend it’s golden. 🤣 Big banana spider on the north side of tomatoes. A slightly smaller one on the south side. Last night when I mowed the yard, I put the grass trimmings on the rainbow beds as a mulch. Hopefully that keeps the plants happier. You can see Judy’s yellow iris looking lovely in front.
Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021Work snack White currant tomatoes are so sweet. They make a great late afternoon snack today at work!
Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021Tomatoes featured in friend of blog’s dinner!! Our friend Meelyn made pav bhaji with garden tomatoes! Looks tasty!!