Grace collander warrior
After a couple of good weeks of rain, my garden warrior was prepared to harvest. Grace is still young enough to be excited about picking tomatoes and the like, while Emma, at 10, is more interested in finding tadpoles and distributing them to the little boys in the neighborhood.
tomato in hand
The first colander of tomatoes is modest, but sweet. We have already given a dozen or so of the early red rubies to neighbors and now I’ve served them up in a salad, and fried up with some zucchini dipped in fresh basil, flour and Parmesan cheese. Not bad.
first tomato haul
We will be vacationing soon and I wonder how the garden will hold up. We haven’t had the courage to ask a neighbor to pull the hose around with the trickle from the rain barrels. It’s a leisurely exercise for me, but would likely be tortuous for someone else.
This year has been unusually well-watered so far. I doubt that will continue through the end of July and August, but being absent for part of that time almost guarantees not a drop will fall. Like the opposite of washing your car.
