I have come to realize that my garden has spoiled me. Fresh picked food is just so much tastier, I hate having to eat veggies from the grocery store!
The tomatoes I picked before the first frost here in Connecticut are still ripening. Had a few just rot on me, but most of them did well, especially the cherokee purples and little yellow cherry tomatoes. Still have two brown paper bags with ripening tomatoes. Planning on BLT’s tomorrow for lunch for the family. Hubby bought me a dehydrator and I dried a whole bunch. Oh, are they good!! I also frozen a good number of the heirlooms. I just have to figure out the best way to use them. LOL!
Is it my imagination or do Fall carrots taste better?? I planted some back the end of August and they are just so good!! The ones I pick haven’t all made it back to the house. Radishes seem to taste better too.
Same for for my lettuce, but that’s growing on a small popup green house. I started it in several window boxes late summer-early fall and moved them under cover before the first frost. We had a salad last night that was out of this world. Son #3 stopped by (and this is kid who doesn’t notice anything, especially vegetable things) and even he said that the lettuce looked so bright and fresh.
Tonight I picked a big mess of greens, collards, 3 kinds of kale, beet greens, and few mustard greens, and have them simmering with some smoked turkey legs for dinner. Have corn bread and hot sauce to go with them. Life is good.
After the first frost, my Russian kale turned the most wonderful color of purple. I saved some of the kale for chips and they were so good!! Wish I’d picked more.
They’re predicting snow for next Thursday. Do you think I should cover the kale and collards?
We had club sandwich several times this week with ham, bacon, cheese, lettuce and tomato. Nothing better than a little bacon and home grown tomato on almost anything.LOL
If it were me, I would cover up the veggies whenever there are going to be temps of around 32 degrees or so.