Tag: veggies

Only a few day’s worth left. It’s been a good long tomato season!

Growing veggies—planting, tending, harvesting, cooking, then eating them—brings me so much joy. And Swiss chard, with its bright crimson veins and generous ruffles, is one of the most joy-sparking of them all.

Pretty much the last harvest of salad veg for the year; there’s still cucumbers on the vine, and lots of basil, but I pulled the last tomato plant today. This sketch shows 1/50th of the green tomatoes now filling a big colander on the counter, so we’ll still be eating them for a few weeks. Looking forward to brassicas, beets, chard, potatoes, onions ….

At least there’s no aphids.

I’ve been adding a whole romaine lettuce plant to my green smoothie every morning, trying to eat them all before they seed. Four left to go!

I periodically buy whatever veggie seedlings are available at my local hardware store; this was yesterday’s haul. They’re all planted now; let’s see if they can grow faster than the snails can eat them!

The tomatoes are starting to ripen, so it’s time to multiply the basil!

I didn’t set out to grow a crop of garlic; I just poked a clove into the ground here or there among other things. But underground they multiplied, and here we are — six fat heads.