Veggies harvested today

Tomatoes and cucumbers

20 cucumbers harvested to date ...

Fried green (and yellow and red) tomatoes

Today a branch full of green tomatoes broke off one of my tomato plants. I hated to see the baby tomatoes go to waste, so we made fried green tomatoes! None of us had tried them before. We also experimented with frying yellow and red tomatoes.



The fried tomatoes were all DELICIOUS! James and I both liked the green ones best because the red and yellow ones were much tangier / tarter.

To make them, we sliced the tomatoes 1/4 inch thick. We prepared a shallow bowl of flour, and a bowl with an egg and a dash of milk. In a third bowl, we combined equal parts cornmeal and breadcrumbs and seasoned with salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper. The tomato slices were dipped first in the flour, then in the egg mixture, and finally dredged in the cornmeal/breadcrumbs. We deep fried them for a few minutes each until they were brown and crispy, sprinkled with salt, and dried them on paper towels. Mmmm....

Garden Update 8/3

I have so many green tomatoes and none ripe yet!


Here are my Romas:


Romas and Early Girls, side by side:


I'm hopeful that these Yellow Pears will turn yellow soon!


Lots of baby tomatillos too:


I've already harvested ~10 cucumbers so far (in the last week), so they are certainly my most productive crop thus far in the season. Here are a few more on the vines almost ready:


My mum gave me an Ethnic Sweet Frying Pepper plant that she grew from seed out in Boston, and here are a few peppers. They're supposed to turn orange or red when they're ripe.


I also harvested a mutant, 3 pronged carrot this morning:

Very bizzare!