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Taken at Ornamental Gardens, Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa this week.
Also at the Ornamental Gardens this week.ARUGALA BURRATA SALAD
PREP Whisk ol/oil, balsamic, s/p; toss w/ arugula and tomatoes.
FINAL Plate and top with burrata. Cut into burrata to let cheese coat arugula;
drizzle w/ olive oil; season w/ pepper. Serve at once. w/ toasted baguettes.
ING 4 c arugula - 2 ripe tomatoes in slices, 16 oz burrata cheese
2 oz ex/virgin ol/oil, tb balsamic, salt/ black pepper to taste
ARUGALA BURRATA SALAD
PREP Whisk ol/oil, balsamic, s/p; toss w/ arugula and tomatoes.
FINAL Plate and top with burrata. Cut into burrata to let cheese coat arugula;
drizzle w/ olive oil; season w/ pepper. Serve at once. w/ toasted baguettes.
ING 4 c arugula - 2 ripe tomatoes in slices, 16 oz burrata cheese
2 oz ex/virgin ol/oil, tb balsamic, salt/ black pepper to taste
Cucumbers, Pickles and Tomatoes, Oh my! I am harvesting daily in bunches. Already 13 quarts of pickles (half dill and other half B&B). Next batch is Honey Pilsner. One of my sons is a chef and he’s going to make tomato sauce.
Another crop doing well is string beans. Broccoli is a lost cause - worms and flea beetles.
Long view of the garden and greenhouse facing NW:
Cucumbers, 'Diva' and 'Summer Dance' have replaced the 'Sugar Magnolia' Snap Peas.
Lame Pepper Patch this season. They should catch up with this blast of heat we're having.
Perennial bed; mostly Coneflower but a few Lilly and some Salvia and Day Lilly. A row of Gladiolus across the back.
'Bush Champion ' Tomato. I have TONS of gorgeous tomatoes on and I'm betting they ALL are ripe and ready on the same day this season, LOL!
Cabbages and Chard in the foreground, 'Pro Cut' Sunflowers in the rear. Great for cutting; sheds no pollen. Giant Sunflower to the left - I have three really big ones that self-seeded from last season.
Red Romaine lettuce going to seed. This will provide me with a lot of little seedling lettuces to plant for a fall salad garden. Zucchini plants are healthy, and no mildew which is a miracle with all the WET this season! Plants have blossom end rot, though. :(
We are under an Excessive Heat Warning through 8pm, tonight. I have already done some spot watering (we've had 2.5" of rain this week, too!) but my Zukes really need some bone meal, so I'm going to run out and do that now, and then just stew in my own juices for the rest of the day. Literally. ;)
Finally able to start picking peas. It’ll be about 2 more weeks for the turnips, what few of them there are; and about 3-4 weeks for the beets. Carrots seem to be doing well.
Bush beans are beginning to put out flowers; and so are the Yellow Straightneck squash.
The cherries shriveled up & died on the tree; ditto the apricots. I hope, but am doubtful, that the peaches will have enough time to mature & ripen. Wild plums and chokecherries never stood a chance.
Apples are another story; plentiful, and a mix of early, mid, and late season varieties.
MIGHT get a bunch or two of River Grapes this year, but not holding my breath,
Anyone have any ideas about using or ripening immature cling peaches, just in case?
Zone 4, but with a short season most years: late May-mid September frost dates.
Thanks!!
Hot, hot, and more hot here in Central Missouri over the past week. We finally got some rain over the weekend, and are enjoying a temporary break in the high temps.
The cooler weather might motivate me to get the weed whacker out and do some trimming in the garden. I really need to dig my garlic but I can’t find it. LOL
So I have been absent from gardening the last 6 years and got back on the wagon this year when I got my greenhouse up....
I have about 5 varieties of tomatoes growing in the greenhouse, including Cherojee Purple, and a heirloom variety that I was never able to grow without the greenhouse due to short season in the Seattle area.
I just this morning plucked the 1st rope Cherokee Purple....not very big but perfectly ripe.
I intended to eat a 1/4 of it, harvest seeds from 1/2 of it, and give the other 1/4 to my wife.
I bit into my 1/4 and I am not exaggerating when I say.....the level of surprise at how delicious and the level of sweetness in this tomato was so surprising, the only way to explain how wonderful it was and surprising.....it was akin to 1st time I was intimate with a woman.
That surprise of how amazing something can be was at the same level.
I ate the entire tomato and saved the seeds from half of it.
I apologize if my analogy is too crude but that was how I felt when tasting this tomato.
