Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
Anyone ever grown Valencia tomatoes
The dude at the nursery said that the heirloom tomato Valencia was delicious and produced large pink fruit. Mine are just starting to turn and they look like they are going to be orange at this point. Has anyone grown these before? Let me know. Thanks.
There is nothing like fresh
I made a fabulous salad the other night. It had Sweet 100 tomatoes, Japanese cucumbers and chives all from the garden. Of course I added to that young lettuce, garbonzo and kidney beans, corn, a mixture of Thousand Island and Blue Cheese dressing and topped it all of with coursely ground pepper from the best pepper grinder in the world that Cyn and Curt got us in Slovenia. Cherry Vanilla ice cream rounded of a the evening. Yum!
How does your garden grow?
Well our new garden is really coming on now that the weather has turned hot. The Valencia heirloom tomatoes are just starting to turn(~15 per plant), there are tons of green Sweet 100’s, the Japanese cucumbers are about 5″ long, the Blue Lake Pole Beans are about 2″ long, the first Jalapeno will be ready to pick at the end of the week, and I have already made a huge batch of pesto from the four basil plants. The slow producer is the heirloom Yellow Brandywine tomato. It only has one tomato. Here are some photos from earlier this month and last fall when we started the whole process.
