The Tomato Harvest, in various stages of ripeness. The cats are fairly mystified about this new addition to their sunning window, but the humans hope for a few more (indoor) garden-ripe tomatoes.
We had the first killing frost on Saturday night, the day of a beautiful sunny Harvestfest in town. We covered diligently, but some leaves still got it. Then Sunday night FELT warmer in the evening, so we got a bit lax, and that night the temps plunged even further. Tomatoes did survive, but we took that as our clue to harvest, fast. Our garden suffered a bit this year from over-scheduled tenders: somehow it got away from us. But there were still WF-sized "Peace Vine" plants, with beautiful little 6 and 8 packs of grape-sized tomatoes, ripening in sequence.
Now, what to do with the abundance? Simple snacking seems somehow overly indulgent or not quite "long range thinking" enough, but it's what we're doing right now! Bittersweet, to enjoy such a summer taste with a Fall chill in the air...
4 comments:
Sounds like you need to do some canning. Those beauties won't look so beautiful after hanging out on the counter for several days...
We haven't had a killing frost yet, but it's coming.
They look beautiful! And yes, canning or freezing seems to be what you should do....
and Wow! A killing frost already! How long is your growing season? I thought I had it bad with 150 days!
You had it better than I did! Dead tomato vines everywhere. I am going to apply to be an official climatological recorder, so I can challenge Embarrass as being the coldest spot in Minnesota. Seriously, it was 28 here this morning.
good crop you have there, its getting colder here too. today is miserable wet so staying in on the pc.
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