Northeast Gardening: Edibles - '08 - Part 2, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Strange with our garden too. Tons of peppers, never better. Eggplants good. But our Tomatoes have yet to turn red.
Lots of green tomatoes and we have been enjoying fried green ones


Those Green tomatoes have been made all the more memorable by a fantastic water color on rag paper done by Ge1836 of a posting I did of some green tomatoes on my kitchen counter. I will try to photograph it and post it. She is a very fine artist. I love it and will frame it for my kitchen. A treasure and such an unexpected and generous gift. Plus the card she sent with it was a photo of one of her other paintings. That is going to be framed too. She has a great website. But I will let her post it if she isn't too shy. DG people continue to amaze me with their talents and generosity.

Caterpillars ate the broccoli sprouts. No loss for me, but DH is not happy. We still have some lettuce that I planted late in the shade and it is yummy, has not bolted yet. Pumpkins are big and already bright orange. Good acorn squash and cukes. Fillet beans( french ones) still producing a few, but getting a tad chewy. Cabbage got gobbled by something. More herbs than I can use. Some other things like carrots are not ready yet. But pretty happy with most of it. But why no red (very few) tomatoes???? I do want to start making red sauce. I may be making green relish instead.

Here is one of our garden spiders yesterday. Patti