…la, la, la, we have no tomatoes today!
Well, the garden may as well look like the dirt above even if this is at the beginning of last season. Mama planted six tomatoes and the heat wiped them out (along with a helper who is just learning tomatoes from weeds…) and they looked like THIS last year.
This year they look like this:
Sort of scraggly, no?
However, our sweet neighbour has his hothouse-raised St. Pierre tomatoes popping out everywhere and I just know he will be putting a few in our garden bucket to help us out on this one.
But lemons we have, and mama has TWO bottles of 99% alcohol from Italy with which to make limoncello for Christmas presents (yes, she starts early–go figure) so at least one crop will have produced something.
But the heat is making the little baby lemons for next year’s crop fall off the tree! Boo.
I tell you, I’m still working on that zipper thing for my fur coat. Oh, to bask in the cool air of evening in the buff.
A zipper, right down that white part, no?
Keep cool.
Look at you – all cute and tummy to the sky! Oh, I needed a zipper for my coat fur sure over the weekend ’cause it got blazing hot here. Fortunately it is a lot cooler today. Mom’s garden is sans tomatoes, but she does have sugar snap pea vines that are growing like jack’s beanstalk – crazy! I heard her out in the garden trying to train them up a trellis! Tee hee hee!
Trying To Train Then up a Trellis! Sounds like a good song title. La la la…
oh nooooooo – but, there’s always the marché. But wonder if the local growers had the same problem? Ahhhh well, tomato, schlomato – bring on the limoncello!!! One must adapt!
Hmmm…tomatocello? Just a thought.
You grow great lemons. I am still amazed at the giant one.
SO ARE WE!!! Lots of limoncello from that one
Oh LouLou, an authentic, homegrown tomato is a pearl beyond price . But if all else fails, your Mama can make green tomato relish.!
Oh, Mary, we don’t even have green ones except from the market and they are REALLY green and edible greens.
Our mom would love to have home grown tomatoes. Maybe she could have a tomato plan on our fire escape. I bet she never thought of that!
Yes, yes, yes, of course you can have one on the fire escape. But it must be in a LARGE pot with lots of nutrients in the potting soil and you must water it with a good organic food as it grows. GO FOR IT. San Marzanos grow best.
No tomatoes? Oh, your poor mama!
Is that lemon alcohol thing a wine or a liquor when it’s finished? Jan looked up a recipe online to see what it is. She found recipes but still not sure what it is.
And, boy, would we all like a zipper. Or at least a breeze. The humidity is horrific because it keeps raining or wanting to rain every day. jan came back red-faced and dripping wet after the dogs walked her.
Red-faced and dripping wet is what WE are too. I wish she had some limoncello to cool her off..
It is on the blog. The recipe is lemon skins (no white part), 99% alcohol made for making booze and sugar and water. The lemon peel sits in the liquor for 2 weeks. Then you divide it in half and add sugar syrup, not too sweet. Then you put it in the freezer and wait until it’s cold and then drink tiny glasses of it as it is GREAT for the stomach.