Saturday, August 6, 2016

Picky Eater

This is how Torin eats grapes now. 

He leaves behind the yucky attached-to-the-stem parts.


That is all.  Thanks for listening.




Friday, August 5, 2016

Gettin' Dirty

This was the first tomato of the garden, plucked from the plant in the background.

Yum.

After 3 hours of barehanded gardening, I was feeling pretty blissful!  I really need to squeeze more time out of my day to spend puttering about the garden because it's good for my soul.

I ceremonially divided the tomato into three pieces, and my husband and toddler all had a taste of that special first harvest... the adults loved it, but the kid (as expected) spat it out.




Thursday, August 4, 2016

First real harvest!

We have had our first ripe tomato!  And then another 10.  <3

The First Harvest, July 30th

I also harvested about 4 packed cups of basil leaves from just one giant plant, only from trimming off all the flowers and then picking random leaves off of the trimmed parts.  There's still a LOT of basil on that lone plant. 

The ratio of basil to tomatoes is a little off for a salad... so I put some on a pizza, in omelets, in taco meat, everywhere.  There are still 3 cups left, so I think I'm going to have to make my first basil-based pesto. 

Even though I've been picking off tons of volunteer flat-leaf parsley all spring/summer, I'm going to count this as the first real harvest.  Yay!  It is awesome that the few surviving tomato plants are starting to be successful. 
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