Happy Harvest Blog
Mr Tomato Head
Look at that tomato. Eggs (normal and Silkie) are there for size context. It's very large. A Persimmon. They are so good. The surprise of the year. I was expecting a normal-large tomato, not one tomato the size of a loaf of bread! Meaty, and delicious. When the hens get a bucket of scraps, they pick out the orange persimmon bits first. In the tomato fermenting pots, the process is rolling right along. Look at that scum of mold - perfect. Outside, the morning glories have come, vining up with the volunteer tomatoes.
Teenage chicken
The tomatoes are all strung up now, in the greenhouse. They're looking good, despite our wack weather. There's a fair number of green tomatoes. The cucumbers on the other hand have just decided to get off the couch and grow. The orphan chicks learned how to let themselves today, squeezing through the orange mesh of the doors. Happily, they let themselves back in, too, and we're ready to go to bed. Two more days in for this bunch. I want they controlled for the rain coming on Friday, so I can keep them dry in the GH.
Newspaper "pots" for tomatoes.
I tried making some pots out of newspaper to pot up my tomatoes into. I rolled them around a bottle (half-sheet each), crunched in the paper on the bottom, slid the cylinder off the bottle, and then turned over the half inch at the "brim" to the outside. That´s what keeps them rolled.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
