The Garden News III

[osprey_archer]

After a long dry July, we’ve had three straight days of rain. (Well, spotty rain. I feel I must in all justice note that the rain was not constant, but politely let up when I needed to walk to a friend’s house for a tea party.)

My garden is therefore looking positively perky. The basil is yet again attempting to flower, so in a desperate attempt to keep it in check, I made a batch of pesto this morning. I don’t have a food processor so it was a very rustic pesto, coarsely chopped, but still scrumptious on toast with goat cheese. You can’t go wrong with anything that is mostly basil and garlic and olive oil.

One of the tomato plants (not Rapunzel, who looks a trifle peaky) has grown so robust that she’s attempting to knock over her tomato cage. In keeping with the Disney princess theme, I’ve named her Mulan. The third plant will probably be Aurora if she doesn’t start displaying signs of personality to the contrary.

The tomatoes haven’t started to ripen yet (I planted them pretty late), but I’m checking them nearly every day in hope. Soon it will be the season of my favorite snack food: fresh tomatoes and basil with goat cheese on a crostini.

Comments

[asakiyume]

The third plant will probably be Aurora if she doesn’t start displaying signs of personality to the contrary. --Ha! I giggled. Go go go Mulan! "You must be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of the great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moooooon!" ... It's a tall order for a tomato plant, but you can do it, Mulan.

PS, too right about basil, garlic, and olive oil.

[osprey_archer]

I hate to say this, but in the case of tomato!Mulan I am totally on her family's side. "Please bring honor tomatoes to us all!"

[littlerhymes]

You can’t go wrong with anything that is mostly basil and garlic and olive oil.

That is pure facts. And when the tomatoes ripen... so good!

[osprey_archer]

IT'S GONNA BE A PARTY.

Next year I've gotta get the tomatoes in earlier. Everyone else's tomatoes are ripening and mine are just TAUNTING me in their greenness. And they're cherry tomatoes so you can't even make fried green tomatoes with them, either.