It's been a great year for beans in the veggie garden but an odd year on the tomato front. The weather has been hot and sunny, we've watered well and regularly, and one would think that we should have had ripe tomatoes long before February. But no.
A huge number of green tomatoes have been biding their time, preparing to swamp me. And this week they've started the campaign: the tomatoes vs. Karen. Sounds a bit sci fi, doesn't it?
So far I've distributed to the neighbors in the back and my office, although I haven't just yet had to go wandering the neighborhood with trug in hand. Is it just me, or is this the way it is? I thought it was just zucchini that did this...
Now I'm wondering if the pumpkins are mobilizing. (I actually thought I saw one or two Musquee de Provence breaking through the soil in the pumpkin patch, belatedly, last weekend. The others are already thriving and flowering. Will report back.)
On the subject of trugs, most of mine have been made by Brett Hutchinson of Golden Bay, aka The Trugmaker. They are useful as well as well crafted and beautiful, I expect them to outlast me. While normally I use them as "sculpture" in the house during the year, they are put to work and their real purpose during tomato season.
Right now this one has been deployed to hold another batch of ripening Central Otago apricots. I'm thinking about using them to make "Orchard Eve's pudding with whisky jersey cream" from Jamie Oliver's "Jamie at Home" for John this weekend.
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