Summer is winding down but the gardening isn't! Not a great year for tomatoes, here or anywhere else it seems, but we have a few dozen in the freezer despite the early blight and TYLCV and the Cherokee Purple is finally getting ready to start giving us great eating! I noticed the two biggest tomatoes on it are finally blushing from the bottom up - can't wait to slice those babies on some white bread with Duke's mayo!
Started 144 cells of fall veggies today - two types of broccoli, three types of collards, Brussels sprouts, mustard greens, Pak choi, leeks and something just for fun - Micro Tom tomatoes. They are touted as the smallest tomato plants, will grow and produce in a 4 inch pot. The tomatoes are supposed to be the size of croutons - thought it would be fun to have some over the winter.
Going to try making squash pickles tomorrow... the cukes have played out, and I am not sure two cases of bread and butter pickles will get us through the winter, so will try some of these for winter meals.
Corno di Toro peppers are to die for - we picked the first three red ones, roasted them on the gas range, peeled and stuffed with fresh mozzarella then baked... with pasta in fresh tomato sauce it was a perfect meal. The Ancho peppers are starting to turn - had them stuffed with Monterey Jack - hot but delicious!
