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Late summer garden update! With dirty pictures! 5 September 2007 9:07 pm

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The following numbers don’t include the tomatoes I ate while I was picking (also there may have been green beans), and I don’t have weights for the Brandywines because the first two of them were so ripe they were splitting and so urgently needed to become sauce that they sent me back into the garden to harvest more tomatoes in order to have enough to make that sauce, and on my second of four trips inside it occurred to me that I should be weighing my haul (and what a haul it was!) In short: tomato season. Fuck yeah.

Yellow Pears: 10 ounces
Sweet 100 red cherry tomatoes: 9 ounces
Sungold orange cherry tomatoes: 6 ounces
Gold Nugget yellow cherry tomatoes: 24 ounces (1.5 pounds)
San Marzano and Principe Borghese roma-style tomatoes: at least 3.5 pounds.
3 red Brandywines

That’s a grand total of probably seven pounds of tomatoes, and that’s just from today; I’ve been grazing all week, starting with the stunningly gorgeous yellow Brandywine I picked on Sunday. My hands are stained green and smell of delicious nightshades. Did I mention fuck yeah? I’ve also been averaging one strawberry a day since returning from Davis, and I must mention the green beans one more time because mmmmm, so delicious. My garden is made entirely out of pure awesome, and tonight for dinner I distilled some of that pure awesomeness into sauce for kushari/kosherie (Middle Eastern lentils with pasta and rice, also known as “how can something so simple be so delicious? how?!?”) Yay!

But now you’re wondering about those dirty pictures I promised in this entry’s title, and I thank your prurient interest for carrying you all the way through all my braggery. Here they are then, the first two installments of a photo series I like to call “I can’t believe I grew this.”

This carrot has a very important lesson to teach us all about scattering seed thinly, so individual carrots have room to grow instead of fusing into each other and looking like someone’s junk.

I don’t know what to say about these cherry tomatoes except that they grew like that, really. (Also they were great in my kushari sauce.) It’s one of those cases when a picture is worth a thousand words, or maybe just a few minutes of maniacal laughter. And a reminder to myself that I really need more practice taking pictures with my new cell phone.