The Garden Chronicles

Having dodged several hard frosts and out of an abundance of caution - on October 2nd I picked the last half-dozen sweet peppers and 70 unripe tomatoes from my garden. I pulled the plants for the composter and moved the fruit to a couple of flats in the countertop of the attached garage.

 

The tomatoes have continued to ripen and we've been eating fresh tomatoes almost every day since then.

 

There has been a reprise of the shrimp, sausage and tomato stew, BLTs, tomato tart, more BLTs, tomato omelet, tomato and cottage cheese and yellow and red cherry tomatoes to snack-upon.  Tomato, tomato, tomato.

 

 

We're finally winding down from the tomato avalanche nevertheless, there was a bump in the ripening inventory and as a consequence I performed an emergency canning of the excess.

There are now a total of nineteen and a half quarts of canned garden tomatoes in the bunker that will contribute to the further manufacture of tomato juice and sauce sometime later in winter.

 

 

Raising a toast to a backyard homesteading.....