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| Sungold |
I know our garden is, because it's finally getting love and attention again. I even watered it today. The garden is feeling so spoiled all of our tomatoes are ripening at once! I planted my two favorites, Sungold, a hybrid cherry which is the sweetest tomato ever to be, and brandywine, a heirloom which is the epitome of tomato. So far from the garden we've had the aforementioned tomatoes, green beans (slightly overripe) and cantaloupe (slightly underripe). Garden cantaloupe are one of those fruits that are so incredibly delicious fresh from the garden compared to the grocery store. The vine is still blooming, so maybe if the frost holds off we can get another two or three to ripen.
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| Cantaloupe blooms |
As the summer garden gives its final harvest, seeds for the fall garden were sown this morning. Its the fall garden in Syracuse that I love most. Whenever the sun hasn't been out for days, and another 2" of snow fell last night, I can sneak out into the yard in the morning, brush the snow of the glass and see little green plants growing seemingly contentedly, albeit slowly. They are my constant reminder of springtime and sunshine. They are also very delicious.
New plants for this year's winter garden include scallions, napoli carrots, broccoli and parsley. All of my new plants are varietys successfully grown for many years by
Eliot Coleman in his unheated greenhouses in Maine. Like last year I'm also planting a cold hardy lettuce mix from Johnny's (all seeds are from Johnny's), spinach (which I still have to get, actually), and radish.
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| Think roasted potatoes.... |
As non-garden news, I hope you'll save the date!
September 19th at 5:00 pm you're cordially invited to come eat dinner, discuss goals, fund raising, cold frames, native gardens, flax and bamboo, and play music at our humble abode (821 Comstock Ave). See the phlox in the native garden, the cosmo's and the veggies in the back... it'll be grand and we'll have at least one dish from the garden!
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| Cosmos in the back |
