Tomatoes in all shapes and sizes.
Some tomaotes I chose to pick before they were completely ripe because it has been a race with the slugs to see who can get to the ripe tomatoes first (I win). The tomatoes will finish ripening on the counter. The strawberries are still coming on strong, this was just one days picking.
Carrots will be stored in the refrigerator, that is where I have the best success of keeping them, plus I really don't have very many, we will eat these in the next few weeks. Lots of jalapenos and there are green peppers waiting to be picked.
This week: pickled jalapenos and tomato salsa, canned.
Listed on Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday
Nothing quite like fresh tomatoes picked from the garden, and at least the excess can be canned or made into sauces and frozen. Tomato chutney is a good way to use up the ones that remain a bit hard and unripe of course.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of tomatoes! I had to pull mine as we had terrible weather and they got blight.
ReplyDeleteVery nice tomatoes, we also battle the slugs for ours. It looks like your jalepenos sized up nicely, ours are still in the growth stage but coming along fairly well. Hope they turn out like yours.:)
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice bowl of tomatoes! I also harvest my tomatoes early when I have too many voracious pests. In my case rodents are more abundant than slugs.
ReplyDeleteI store my carrots in the fridge too. I've never been able to keep them anywhere else, but they keep for months there.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on battling the slugs for tomatoes and winning! Your tomatoes look great. When you store your carrots in the fridge, do you keep the green tops on your carrots, or to you trim them first?
ReplyDeletethyme2garden, I leave a little top on. The whole thing would just take up too much space, but to keep the carrot fresh I leave a couple inches of the green top.
ReplyDelete-Brenda
Nice harvest! Do you have a favorite salsa canning recipe?
ReplyDeleteSlugs are one of the few pests I don't have to deal with, it's the rats I have to beat to the goodies. I've become very good at setting rat traps this year, only snapped my fingers twice. I keep my carrots in the fridge too, they keep for ages. Lovely harvest!
ReplyDeleteThomas,
ReplyDeleteCheck out Tuesday's post, that is the canned tomato salsa I prefer, though I would always eat it fresh if I could.
-Brenda
Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI think I prefer slugs to rats, I shutter to think of having to deal with rats in my garden.
-Brenda