Actually, Karen's up at MMS tonight with the other MMS ladies stuffing the August GroundCrew into envelopes for your reading pleasure. Once they finish stuffing the 6, 300 or so newsletters, the postal trays will be off to the post office and before you know it, if you're on the MMS mailing list, you'll be holding this very issue in your hands.
Salsa Report
I mentioned in the August 1 posting about my "salsa anxiety" related to this season's harvest of our Roma tomatoes, banana peppers, and jalepenos. Well, I still have a concern but at least now there are more and more tomatoes on the vines. The great majority of them are still green, however, and everyone's talking about how late the tomatoes are. Usually the peppers come in after the tomatoes, but this year it's the other way around. Our peppers plants are going great guns.
So, since you're on pins and needles wondering whether or not Keith's going to have enough salsa from this year's crop to last through next growing season, here's a picture of how the garden started:
Salsa Planting Day, May 22
How the salsa garden looks today, August 19.
And here's a shot of my "heavy producer" tomato plant.This year, for some reason, the tomato plants are shorter than ever and the tomatoes aren't staying on the vine until ripe. They just fall off and we finish the ripening inside. All you tomato experts out there, what are we doing wrong? Anyway, we do have 65 tomatoes already in the crisper, but 65 tomatoes does not a salsa season make. We'll keep you posted.
I'm running low on the 2007 batch.
9 comments:
Have you checked the PH of your soil?
PH? What's a PH?
Pot Holder? Pan Handler? Party Hat?
Party Hats! That's what we need. What's a tomato plant without one?! Ha!
A friend of mine grows tomatoes and they said that they haven't had much tomato harvest because of the lack of rain these past couple of weeks. Maybe that's it.
Is your salsa nice and spicy and good, Keith?
bwahahahahaha
That might be your problem....giggle.........
Hey Chef,
Good to hear from you. I'll see if I can irrigate the plants to keep the soil damp. And yes, the salsa is nice and spicy!
Chocolatechick,
Based on the above comments, I'm thinking more water and more party hats should do the tomato trick.
I want a picture of party hatted tomatoes.
You need to get some party horns out there too. You know...those things that are rolled up and then extend when you blow into them.
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