Northeast Gardening: Edibles - '09 - Part 4, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
We got hit with the Late Blight here in Nantucket. We did get lots of red and yellow cherry tomatoes as they were not affected as were the heirlooms. We saved some but not nearly enough, so we brought back three big boxes from a Vt. farm to make sauce. We have a good amount of peppers both hot and sweet , even some nice purple ones, great eggplants, lots of cukes and a mountain of Tomatillos. I will be making green salsa to freeze. Our Fennel bulbs growing slowly, but we have a bounty of basil to freeze and masses of wormy brassica. Holes everywhere! Carrie, I know how you feel! yuck!

We pulled out all the tomato plants and will burn them. Sad loss.

DH harvested his pumpkins already. The best ones came from seed he threw randomly in a compost heap that we have hidden in the bushes. And he forgot about them until they started climbing the cedar trees where we could see them. Here are some of the ones that he got out of the bushes. There may be more in there, but too much poison ivy to go and really look. Too funny. Patti