#spoon tomatoes

Spoon tomatoes!! They’ll be turning ripe soon!!

While going through what’s left of the garden as I do my evening rounds, I’m constantly surprised by what’s still surviving. The still blooming summer squash and eggplant. The pumpkin vines growing new leaves and blooming. The bush beans still blooming and producing. This evening, however, I had some more unexpected surprise finds. The first was tomatoes! View this post on Instagram A post…

We still have tomatoes

I just had to share this photo. Before I headed out this morning, I took the time to pick tomatoes. It’s October 7, and we still have tomatoes! I probably could have picked more beans, too, but I didn’t have time before I had to head out. Those little Spoon tomatoes are the most adorable things ever! They almost make me like tomatoes. Well. No. Not really. I just like growing them. I don’t…

Our 2021 garden: 105

First, the pretty! The remaining Hopi Black Dye sunflower in the old kitchen garden has three seed heads forming. This is the second one to open, and the third is still just a big bud. I finished my rounds with picking tomatoes. Here is this morning’s haul. I was curious, so when I transferred them to a colander for washing, I counted them. I picked 105 tomatoes…. … and they all fit into a…