This was a great way to start a beautiful day here in sunny F-L-A! The weather is getting hotter, to the point where every now and then I need to close the windows and put the AC on - the humidity is unbearable! But the tan I get while gardening is a great perk :-)As I mentioned before, my beefsteak tomato plant fell ill to verticillium wilt a month back and I cut the limbs off the root of the plant a week ago. I left the branches with about 20 tomatoes on them laying on the surface of its planter pot. To my surprise they have not so much grown bigger but have turned from green to yellow to orange and today to red. So what was a girl to do?! I picked those suckers off of their viney branch, which is somehow still in tact and not rotting, even though it is no longer planted in soil. They still need to ripen on my kitchen table, but we’ll see if I really can eat them!
I also picked a cute little cherry tomato and a zucchini which is huge! I’m not too sure what kind of recipe I will cook to use these beauties, but I’m sure I’ll think of something creative! It sure is nice to wake up, wander barefoot into the garden with my little orange and white cat following at the hem of my sun dress, and pick some organic goodness.
It still hasn’t really hit me yet – this whole garden concept thing. I have these wonderful veggies sitting on my kitchen counter, but for some reason it hasn’t sunk in that I grew these myself, and it took lots of time and preparation and TLC for these little babies to grow. Maybe it’s because it is only the beginning of the crop harvest here at the 10th Street Garden. Or maybe it is because I never thought I could be self-reliant enough to grow my own food. Either way, it will be a glorious summer as I plan to live solely off of the garden for my vegetable intake.
Happy Growing!
-Brooke N. Dressler
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