Can We Talk 2

Summer Veggies

         Well, I got my first red tomatoes off the vine! Oh, joy. The thrill of growing your own. I ate one small one already. No cherry or grape tomatoes this year. The plant labeled yellow tomato was mis-marked. It's rendering very red tomatoes.

         That's all I'm growing. I did plant a potato, and the plant looks lovely, but I don't know anything about harvesting a hill of potatoes. Someone at my volunteer workplace brought in onions and kale. The kale looked great, so we split it up. The onions had washed up in all the downpours and many were mushy. People took one or two that looked good. I took all the mushy leftovers, cleaned them up and now have a bowl of onions. Gotta find some recipes using onions because they won't last in this condition.

         I've got a pot of cooked kale steaming on the stove. Yum. The best part of summer is the home grown produce from your friends and neighbors. I did get one very small garlic bulb, dry at that. And something green that smells like mint. I'm not sure what to do with that. I miss the days when my dad brought in squash, zucchini, beets, green beans, pumpkins, etc. That freshly picked crop brings back memories.