Back in school, birthday over. Harvesting and canning and wondering how early first frost will come this year. Lots of blog posts to catch up on. For now, some shots of the early-September garden and R's little neighbor friends playing in it.
These sweet peas are so glorious. Worth all the work of growing them from seed.
All picked this morning. These are mostly Opalka tomatoes, the oval paste ones that are best for canning. I have a lot of sauce to make! I borrowed a dehydrator and it's working right now, filled with zucchini chips and tarragon. The peppers that we don't eat in the next few days I'll cut up and freeze, or use as a little hit of color in pickles.
I sold some of these at our neighborhood farmer's market in August.
Early morning sun on the just-picked tomatoes.
Pasta salad with lots of tomato varieties. Kellog's Breakfast are the orange, then there's Green Zebra, Paul Robeson (my neighbor Julie calls them Roy Orbison, which cracks me up!), and black cherry and lollipop (yellow cherry).
Funny girls and some overgrown broccoli.
Ready for pickling.
Cosmos, bean and cucumber blossoms, and Fairy Tale eggplant.
Strange to think that there could be snow on the ground in a month.
