#tigerella

Always and Forever is visiting a tomato exhibition in Exeter!

Here she is with a variety named Tigerella.

The humble tomato plant, Solanum lycopersicum. Botanically considered a berry, cularinarily considered a vegetable, tomatoes are one of the 9 members of the nightshade family that are safe to eat.

I checked the weather forecast yesterday morning & the cold front wasn’t predicted to reach us. This morning I woke to 37 degrees Fahrenheit & a freeze warning. The prediction is for it to drop to 32 degrees tonight so it was time to pull in as much as we could. The Old Farmer’s Almanac doesn’t have our first Fall frost date until All Saints’ Day. I guess they could still end up being correct, technically, since these are freeze warnings. 

This is how much sweet potato a single 18 inch by 18 inch planter can yield:   

More backyard garden harvest: 

Harvest from Plot 420: 

Also from Plot 420: 

The combined harvest: 

Not part of today’s harvest but I thought some folks might be interested to see what a ripe Tigerella tomato looks like: 

Today’s backyard garden harvest: 

The tiny flowers of our fragrant tea olive have the entire backyard scented up: 

The last of the sweet corn for this year is just starting to tassel: 

I think these might be Tigerella tomato. I didn’t think any of the seedlings had made it: 

We’ve pulled out all the squash plants in the backyard garden except for this lemon squash. It was attacked by squash vine borers then a downy woodpecker peck all the borers out. I thought it would die months ago but it is still producing fruit. We’ll definitely let one fruit go to seed on this trooper for seed collecting: 

I’m happy with the repair job that I did on this curbside find planter but I’m even happier that the curly leaf parsley that I planted in it is doing well: 

My queen: How much longer on the burgers?

Me: About 3 minutes

My queen: Are mine well done?

Me: Yes

My queen: I ask because my last steak was a little pink inside.

Me <grinning>: You’re a little pink inside & you don’t hear me complaining.

My queen <grinning>: You need to go on. 

Anyway, hamburgers for dinner: