They're Here!

This past weekend, the first of the (non-cherry) tomatoes turned red. So I picked ten or twelve at home and another ten or twelve at Perkins on Sunday night. When I came home from work today, just twenty-four hours later, I found another dozen red ones in the home garden.

Clean out the bottom drawer of the fridge and make room, because here they come. It's time for tomatopalooza 2006!

Thankfully, the weather forecast is for a cool weekend. Saturday we'll break out the big pot and the canning jars and get some of these 'maters ready for eatin'... in February 2007.

Other stuff in the garden is coming along nicely as well. Yesterday we ate a few small ears of corn out of the home patch. They were a bit starchy.

This past weekend we were also popping mouthfuls of soybeans. Soybeans are much more tasty fresh out of the garden than they would seem. They make a great snack. Just steam briefly, cool, and munch away.

The kale and chard are still going strong, and a few similar crops are on their way... cabbage and cauliflower. We have some nice, big heads of orange cauliflower coming in (and a cool front just in time to help them grow!). The cabbage is a ways off, but the heads sure are startin' to look pretty.