Tomatoes
The green tomatoes from the downed plant.
Beans and zucchini. Our beans never grow beautifully long and straight like so many I've seen on other blogs. They get short, dumpy, fat and stringy instead. Still good eating, however. The Fortex pole beans are just coming in. I'm thinking those are all I'll grow from now on. There's nothing like them for flavor and texture.
Here's a bit of what I pulled for the kids' first veggie box.
Tons of tomatoes.
A late night harvest using my favorite collection method.
And the start of this week's tomato fiesta is below.
Last night for our Fourth of July celebrations I made a tomato and cucumber salad from all of the four different types of tomatoes in the garden. It was a huge bowl, and it was scarfed up pretty quickly which was nice. A woman was there who has milk goats, chickens and just got a cow to milk as well. See...if I did get chickens, now I'd have someone to apprentice under! Stop by Daphne's to see what everyone else is harvesting this week!
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I like your collection method, that's how we do it too.:) It looks like you are having a good gardening season so far, nice tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteOh my....what a beautiful harvest of colorful tomatoes!!
ReplyDeleteI adore cucumber and tomato salads! Lucky you to have the tomatoes coming on so well. Everything looks tasty.
ReplyDeleteLooks like summer time! Those cherokee purples make a nice tomato sauce. Just cut them up, cook them down with spices/salt until dissolved, strain out skins with a colander and freeze.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the photos of the tomatoes in the T-shirt. Especially the little yellow pear tomatoes. They are such sweet little things. My yellow pear tomatoes aren't even close to ripe yet.
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely collections of harvests.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure tomatoes are a welcome break from zucchinis. Looks like you have a nice assortment. I used the same collection method for my pole beans today. I forgot my bucket!
ReplyDeleteWow, look at all of those tomatoes. You're giving something to look forward to. Are those some Cherokee purples I see?
ReplyDeleteI does look like your zucchinis are slowing down. Hopefully, you have those bugs under control.
Your harvest looks wonderful! I cannot wait for our tomatos to ripen!!
ReplyDeleteGreat looking tomatoes! I use the t-shirt collection myself, too!
ReplyDelete~~Lori
I often harvest in my skirt or my hat when I forget to bring out my basket. I'll have to try the T-shirt method. I can't wait for my own tomatoes to start up. While I was gone for four days they jumped up like crazy. I can't believe how much they grew.
ReplyDeleteIf I had your yellow pear tomatoes, I don't know that they would've made it from the garden to the house without getting eaten. Then again, I have been known to take pictures of one bean and two snap peas, just to document and prove that I'm harvesting *something* from my garden.
ReplyDeleteYour harvest is so summery and lovely.
Beautiful harvest!
ReplyDeleteAre you really thinking about getting chickens?
I so wanted some this year, but with all that we're doing on the new house.... I thought that I'd better wait until next year!
I do, terribly, Toni. We'll have to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteYour tomatoes look good. I have been know to use my t-shirt, too.
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