Tomatoes before and after slow roasting. Yummy.
Today’s morning tomato harvest includes black cherries, sun gold, a dad’s sunset (bigger orange), a few principe borghese (small round red) and the first black trifeles (the big dark red ones).
Since when does lettuce get this big/tall? The seed pods shoot up to about 4 feet.
Sun gold and black cherry tomatoes are some of my favorites that I’ll grow every year. They are very prolific and taste fantastic.
On with the tomatoes! The jerkwad birds are already nailing the costoluto genovese tomatoes (the big wrinkly ones) but these will be my first undamaged. The one in the middle is nice and goofy shaped.
Also shown are sungold, black cherry, black trifele, black prince, and principe borghese tomatoes and my first friarello di napoli peppers.
A little harvest of raspberries, padrone peppers and a principe borghese tomato.
As the lettuce bolts to seed (Chadwick’s Rodan in this case) in come the tomatoes. I ate the first ones — black cherry — this morning. Yum.
I’m swimming in lettuce. I’m definitely growing endive again (the bulk of the harvest is in the second photo). In the harvest photo you can see: rapini (with yellow flower), nero di tavola/dinosaur kale, a shin kuroda carrot (my first), chadwick’s rodan lettuce, red chard, little gem lettuce, lolla rossa, endive and verde di taglio green chard. Made a quiche and a lovely salad. I’m hoping the clover in the third photo will be an easy seed keeper.
Here are some 3rd-floor views of the garden. There are large tomatoes, much biomass, many flowers and no shortage of mosquitoes (not shown).
The zinnia from my previous post opens up.
