harvested

Teeny weeny tomatoes

Eloine

liltomatos

Gosh these are so cute! Literally handfulls of tomatoes 🙂

These are red current tomatoes and are indeterminate. It took me a little while to pick all these and there are literally hundreds more on the plant. Besides being incredibly small they are really sweet in flavor. I think they would be great in salads or anything you want to throw a little tomatoe into.

Another thing they are good for is hanging baskets. I have one plant in a hanging basket and it has many flowers but no fruit yet.

Here is a link to someone I think beat the size of mine. Look how she has them right inside a thimble!

Scrumptious meal from some that I harvested!

Eloine

Today I harvested:

  • Several large squash
  • grocery bag of tomatoes
  • handful of beets
  • arm load of swiss chard
  • chocolate mint and watercress for a salad

From the tomatoes and the squash my mother made the following recipe that is absolutely scrumptious!

Ingredients:

  • Coarsely chopped squash
  • steamed, skinned and stewed tomatoes
  • caramelized onions
  • crushed freeze dried green pepper
  • fried senorita jalepeños
  • salt and some butter

(all cooked in a frying pan)

  • lean top round ground pork

Meat is cooked separately from the squash and then put together in a large frying pan along with the rest of the ingredients and stirred. The tomatoes and caramelized onions were from a previous harvest that was made in a large pot and stored in the freezer for meals like this that you can just get out and pour in the pan for a quick meal.

Harvested

Eloine

harvestPicture of my little harvest today. Then I sprayed all the veggie garden with VF-11.

  • Early Girl and Better Boy tomatos
  • One Summer squash
  • 2 cucumbers that are not quite growing right
  • basil
  • swiss chard
  • bell peppers

and here is a little later where the squash
and peppers were stir fried :))
stirfry

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Got this in the email today from gardeners about cucumber beetles being a problem in the garden. I am having some trouble with my squash and my cucumber plants suddenly looking very wilted and brown spots on the leaves. I will post pics of what they look like. I was concerned I would not get any squash but yesterday when I looked I saw one giant one I overlooked. I hate that when that happens!

I took a picture of the cucumber beetle and it appears we have the spotted kind out here although I do not see too many of them on the plant. Not sure how many it takes for it to be a problem. I did the test of cutting the leaf and measuring the stickiness and it failed that test so perhaps it’s some other problem. 
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