Giving Away the Farm
Our garden is loving these hot summer days. The cucumbers are growing like crazy; I have been making a batch of pickles almost every day. Each morning I go out to the garden, scanning between the flowers and leaves to see how many cucumbers I can find. They hang lush and green, ready to be picked and enjoyed. Sometimes the ones that aren't quite ready in the morning, have fully ripened by afternoon. I am averaging 4-6 pickling cucumbers every day, enough for a pint or two. Our tomatoes are starting to ripen too. Their skins are slowing deepening, from green to yellow to red, and soon we will have many coming in, hopefully enough to make a few batches of pasta and pizza sauce. We have many different varieties of peppers coming in as well: jalapeños, bell, bajo and cayenne. I am looking forward to all of the mole, hot sauces, pepper jellies, poppers and other dishes we can make. The most interesting plant we have this year is our tomatillos. These are o...
