It feels strange to say that, especially because of what I found in my garden this past weekend:
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Oh tomatoes, you just want to keep growing, don't you? I don't blame you, the weather this past week has been unseasonably warm (but that didn't stop me from using my back patio as a back up "refrigerator" as we cooked for Thanksgiving.) Now it seems we're actually moving toward cooler weather so this little baby sadly didn't make it.
I am in the process of finally getting rid of all my tomato plants (sniff sniff) but I couldn't bring myself to throw out all the green tomatoes. So here's my actual last harvest of green tomatoes:
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I didn't really know what to do with them and my fridge was already full of Thanksgiving leftovers so I decided to try ripening them. Since I had so many I tried the wrapping-them-in-newspaper method:
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I had so many I had to use two roasting pans!
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I haven't seen much change yet, but we'll see what next week brings. In the meantime, here are some handsome young tomatoes for you to admire:
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And here's a last Beauty Queen, nice and yellow and striped:
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Are people's gardens still growing? I left my poor eggplant out there even though I've given up hope of ever getting any eggplant from it...I just can't bear to let it go quite yet.
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Oh tomatoes, you just want to keep growing, don't you? I don't blame you, the weather this past week has been unseasonably warm (but that didn't stop me from using my back patio as a back up "refrigerator" as we cooked for Thanksgiving.) Now it seems we're actually moving toward cooler weather so this little baby sadly didn't make it.
I am in the process of finally getting rid of all my tomato plants (sniff sniff) but I couldn't bring myself to throw out all the green tomatoes. So here's my actual last harvest of green tomatoes:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="This is more than it looks like"][/caption]
I didn't really know what to do with them and my fridge was already full of Thanksgiving leftovers so I decided to try ripening them. Since I had so many I tried the wrapping-them-in-newspaper method:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="yes, that's philly weekly"][/caption]
I had so many I had to use two roasting pans!
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="again with the PW"][/caption]
I haven't seen much change yet, but we'll see what next week brings. In the meantime, here are some handsome young tomatoes for you to admire:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="beefsteak"][/caption]
And here's a last Beauty Queen, nice and yellow and striped:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="beauty"][/caption]
Are people's gardens still growing? I left my poor eggplant out there even though I've given up hope of ever getting any eggplant from it...I just can't bear to let it go quite yet.