I read something recently: "If at first you don't succeed...you must be a gardener." Now, this is the kind of cutesy saying bad gardening books are full of, but this one went on to contend that gardeners are stubborn and that, indeed, stubbornness is actually a good quality in a gardener since so many things can and do go wrong each season. Okay, maybe that last part was my own projection. But! Gardening has taught me to try again and again and, stubbornly, again. It took me three years to grow an eggplant but, dammit, I finally did it.
tomatoes (and two blackberries)!
What can I say, it's tomato time. I'll write a more in-depth post about what varieties I grew this year and how I liked or didn't like them but - spoiler alert - they were all pretty great. Especially the yellow pears. With so many tomatoes I've been making my default tomato sauce and it tastes great but looks a little...well, like puke. I casually mentioned that to my boyfriend as I served him a dinner of pasta in that sauce and he kindly asked me never to describe it that way to him again and then cleaned his plate and went back for more. A keeper, I say!
tomatoes (and two blackberries)!What can I say, it's tomato time. I'll write a more in-depth post about what varieties I grew this year and how I liked or didn't like them but - spoiler alert - they were all pretty great. Especially the yellow pears. With so many tomatoes I've been making my default tomato sauce and it tastes great but looks a little...well, like puke. I casually mentioned that to my boyfriend as I served him a dinner of pasta in that sauce and he kindly asked me never to describe it that way to him again and then cleaned his plate and went back for more. A keeper, I say!